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SimpleCDN: just got better!
Yesterday i posted about SimpleCDN and talked about the price of their data structure. Any file between 0 and 1mb was charged 1 credit, which works out roughly at $1 (unless you buy in bulk). Well, today i was uploading some files for testing, and...
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simpleCDN: Exactly what it says on the tin!
I found simpleCDN Today, and i am very interested and a bit bowled over! the idea is simple (hence the name). you upload a file, and your charged for that. and thats it. no monthly charges, no bandwidth charges, no usage charges. NOTHING! well, ex...
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MotorLoggr: Log car related costs, easily
There have been a couple of services popping up around the place allowing you to track fuel costs, etc, and it has gotten to a stage that its starting to annoy me. not because the services are there, but because of my own stupidity. Last July, I s...
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Home Storage Cloud?
Is it posible to build a home cloud storage system with spare storage from machine? and if not, why not? since we all need large amounts of storage for different things, and we dont want our storage “disapearing” any time soon, a distributed file ...
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Building a New Media Centre PC, Part 2: AV receiver
So, in the previous article, I mentioned I talked about the PC part of the Media Center (I see the Media Center as more than just the PC, its the whole package). My Current setup has a Yamaha RX-V357 AV receiver and speakers (standard speakers tha...
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Building a new Media Centre PC, Part 1: thinking and main machine
So, a couple of months ago, I replaced my Media Center PC with a Sky HD box, an Apple TV and an XBox 360. Well, in reality, the XBox 360 was used to connect to the old Media Center, so it wasn’t a replacement.Anyway, over the last couple of months...
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Server speed problems, and more bandwidth, comming soon
So, the website has been running slow for the last while. its a mix of it sitting on a machine that is quite overloaded, and has a serious lack of ram. Well, hopefully the problem will be solved soon. I am looking at Dedicated servers from a compa...
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Cachability, Amazon S3, CDNs, website speed and Proxys
So, one thing that i have noticed over the last couple of months is how slow my blog has become. it may be because the machine that is hosting the blog is running slower than it should be. it could be the data backend. it could (but hopefully isen...
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What exactly is the difference between SSD Express and SATA Drives?
I was looking on Komplett this morning for SSD Drives (to paraphrase the Stereophonics “Im just looking, im not buying, yet”) and was suprised to see a big difference in price between SSD SATA drives and SSD Express Cards. they are selling a 32gb ...
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Parallel builds in MSBuild
SWEET! Scott Hanselman has a post on his blog showing you how to get MSBuild to build in Parallel. this could come in very handy. we have a machine here for building our projects on, and you could be talking 4 or 5 projects, if not more, all linke...
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