Buy online @ your own risk?

Over recent years buying online has become a popular alternative to wandering down to the local shops. Not only do you often see substantial discounts and have goods delivered to your front-door, but you also save on shoe-leather and valuable travelling time. There  is of course a downside for shops, but what the hell, buying online is the future … isn’t it? (more…)

Virtualisation Technology – Pie in the sky?

There is much talk of Clouds and Virtualisation, how much is real, how much is hype of things to come, and how much it pie in the sky? Surprisingly the value of these technologies is actually far greater than the buzzwords might suggest, but conversely the technology available is far less mature than we might like or expect. (more…)

So why do I want an xPad?

Yes indeed, why do you? The answer; usually because of all the marketing hype! That’s not to say however that the hype has no substance! (more…)

Big Red earns it’s new name …

Over the years IBM has acquired the nickname “big blue”, although the theories as to why this is the case vary somewhat.

In recent times however, it’s not so difficult to see how Oracle’s came by it’s new nickname, and it’s no reference to “Hell Boy” (after all, “Hell Boy” is generally seen as a bit of a hero!)

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Death of an OS

About five years ago Sun launched the OpenSolaris, essentially a free version of their Solaris Operating System. Probably a great idea with regards to getting people interested in Sun and Solaris, but a project that was never funded sufficiently to compte with the likes of Linux.

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Building a Beast!

This is another step in my evolutionary quest to build Linux based server from cost-effective generic components that can rival the performance of some of the best expensive commercial systems on the market.

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Double your RAID1!

Over the years I’ve tended to prefer RAID5 as this has always seemed to be the recommended solution when it comes to combining resilience and speed, however recently, with larger less reliable drives I have noticed a few problems with RAID5. While looking at these problems, I’ve also noticed RAID5 is no longer the recommended solution!

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Time to move to NZ!

It looks like the US is moving (well and truly) to the back of the pack in terms of being a place to encourage innovation in software development. The New Zealand government has just decided that computer programs will *not* be patentable! So, if you’re writing Open Source code and you don’t want to worry about Apple Microsoft Patent Trolls, at least get a .nz website address and code using a ‘down under’ alias …

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eCrime Wales!

Did you know that Wales is a World leader in the fight against eCrime?! Today was their annual conference and there were some real gem’s to be had, and all at a bargain price for the tax-payer!

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