December 2008
7 posts
Solr has a new logo
I guess I missed the voting (or maybe normals weren’t allowed in), but I quite like it! So much easier on the eyes than the ol’ “dripping orange stuff” look of the old one.
PR Communications: Semantic Web Companies In... →
This is scary. Is it true?
Replacing Amazon SQS with something faster and...
Did you know that SQS costs a dollar per million messages? That’s sent or received, so really it’s 2 bucks a million. Another thing with SQS: it’s slow. Even with 200 connections adding 10K messages takes minutes. [Actual #: 10000 100 byte strings from an EC2 instance takes 200 seconds.]
So I played with RabbitMQ. Phil J told me about it. Normally when he says something I...
Samsung NC10 UK revision - InsanelyMac Forum →
This is the place for the OSX/NC10. Seems that everything is OK except wifi (you can get a Dell card for cheap to replace the one in there) and power management and the internal LAN.
All Christmas Music, Boiled Down to Sixteen... →
I appreciate Peter never falling prey to the urge of CamelCasing the company’s name. The mark of a true journo. P, if you read this we are supposed to be talking about something….
Samsung NC10
Good:
Keyboard. Easy to type on. No real problems.
Weight/size. Is about exactly half the weight of a white macbook (when you include power adapters for both.) I didn’t think this would matter but it really does, especially when walking around a lot with it on you.
Battery. Hasn’t run out during a day yet.
Does everything I do, python, web, logging into EC2 machines….
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Plotters & Serial Adapters
Got this beauty in the office:
200 pound freight, the guy wouldn’t even carry it up our stairs. I had to standing-kick the pallet support beams and tear the thing apart in our lobby. Thankfully it was a holiday and not a lot of people were around. The plotter itself is not so heavy, but came with a a beautiful rolling stand and a lot of pens. The previous owner seemed to have a vellum...