So yes, my Palm PDA is a bit of an antique. People are usuallysurprised that I still own a PDA --the smartphones do it all now--, that I went through the...
So yes, my Palm PDA is a bit of an antique. People are usuallysurprised that I still own a PDA --the smartphones do it all now--, that I went through the troubles of making it work with my Mac andthat it is still proving useful to me. On a daily basis, in fact. I useit to backup & sync my Sun Calendar--and it even gets the timezone of my repeating events right unlikeiCal-- and my Address Book contacts --which I can consult on the roadwithout a magnifying glass unlike with my...
So yes, my Palm PDA is a bit of an antique. People are usuallysurprised that I still own a PDA --the smartphones do it all now--, that I went through the troubles of making it work with my Mac andthat...
My Palm PDA, a Sony Clié TH55, is a bit of an antique. To get it to work with the Apple laptop I received from work last summer --I was switching to Mac for the...
My Palm PDA, a Sony Clié TH55, is a bit of an antique. To get it to work with the Apple laptop I received from work last summer --I was switching to Mac for the first time--, I had to perform a few hacks, that I googled here and there. The most useful instruction page now being a broken link, here are my notes, for Mac OS X 10.5 aka Leopard. Download and install Palm Desktop for Mac 4.2.1 from http://www.palm.com/. It seems that it is now available as a .dmg package; it was a...
My Palm PDA, a Sony Clié TH55, is a bit of an antique. To get it to work with the Apple laptop I received from work last summer --I was switching to Mac for the first time--, I had to perform a...
Over the week-end, I read an interesting (French) article in Le Monde about datacenter (in)efficiency. According to the Intelligent Energy Europe EU Programme,...
Over the week-end, I read an interesting (French) article in Le Monde about datacenter (in)efficiency. According to the Intelligent Energy Europe EU Programme, the 7 million datacenters located in the EU use up to 40,000,000 kWh, about 1.5% of total European power consumption, and the electricity demand could double between 2006 and 2011. By 2015, energy costs for the operation of servers are expected to exceed the costs of server hardware. As some kind of a response to this...
Over the week-end, I read an interesting (French) article in Le Monde about datacenter (in)efficiency. According to the Intelligent Energy Europe EU Programme, the 7 million datacenters located in the...
As a follow-up to my posts on Web Analytics (cf Part 1 and Part 2), here is a quick update on FeedBurner. As a reminder, FeedBurner enables a blogger to track...
As a follow-up to my posts on Web Analytics (cf Part 1 and Part 2), here is a quick update on FeedBurner. As a reminder, FeedBurner enables a blogger to track his off-site traffic, i.e. his subscribers. FeedBurner gives you a feed URL that replaces the blogging site's default RSS feed and on which it performs extra monitoring and analytics --it basically answers the question of how many subscribers a blog has. Since the acquisition of FeedBurner by Google in 2007, users were...
As a follow-up to my posts on Web Analytics (cf Part 1 and Part 2), here is a quick update on FeedBurner. As a reminder, FeedBurner enables a blogger to track his off-site traffic, i.e....
Perforce is a commercial source code management software available on many platforms including Solaris Sparc and Solaris x86. As one of our ISV partner...
Perforce is a commercial source code management software available on many platforms including Solaris Sparc and Solaris x86. As one of our ISV partner experienced last year, the storage subsystem is likely the performance bottleneck of a Perforce Server installation. With entry-level systems featuring a minimum of 4 CPU cores, 4GB memory and dual GigE network nowadays --I am looking e.g. at the base configuration of the Sun Fire X2250 server--, CPU, memory and network are no...
Perforce is a commercial source code management software available on many platforms including Solaris Sparc and Solaris x86. As one of our ISV partner experienced last year, the storage subsystem...
"Latency matters. Amazon found every 100ms of latency cost them 1% insales. Google found an extra .5 seconds in search page generation time dropped traffic by...
"Latency matters. Amazon found every 100ms of latency cost them 1% insales. Google found an extra .5 seconds in search page generation time dropped traffic by 20%. A broker could lose $4 million in revenues per millisecond if their electronic trading platform is 5 milliseconds behind the competition." Latency is Everywhere (...), High Scalability Blog, Todd Hoff Sun customers can turn to Gigaspaces to hide the network latencies and dramatically increase the performance of...
"Latency matters. Amazon found every 100ms of latency cost them 1% insales. Google found an extra .5 seconds in search page generation time dropped traffic by 20%. A broker could lose $4 million...
Building off the work by John Littell and Jason Carolan, I am releasing here icalds 2.0 that enables you to subscribe to a Sun Calendar Serverfrom an Apple iCal...
Building off the work by John Littell and Jason Carolan, I am releasing here icalds 2.0 that enables you to subscribe to a Sun Calendar Serverfrom an Apple iCal client on Mac OS X, and subsequently sync with"any" mobile device thru iSync. I am myself using it on Mac OS X 10.5.5 with Sun Calendar Server 6.3. icalds will prove useful until Sun Calendar Server adds native CalDAV support. Compared to the previous releases of the icald/icalds scripts, fixes include: session id now...
Building off the work by John Littell and Jason Carolan, I am releasing here icalds 2.0 that enables you to subscribe to a Sun Calendar Serverfrom an Apple iCal client on Mac OS X, and subsequently...
As a follow-on to my recent post on Sun's latest earnings release, I would like to point you all to the Q3CY08 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker released...
As a follow-on to my recent post on Sun's latest earnings release, I would like to point you all to the Q3CY08 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker released today. It is giving a market reference point against which we can compare the growth of Sun's emerging server product lines, Sparc CMT and x64 systems, that are the results of Sun's recent strategic investments. Segment Growth Sun X64 (inc. Thumper's) 13% vs Total X64 server market -6.6% vs Total Volume server market...
As a follow-on to my recent post on Sun's latest earnings release, I would like to point you all to the Q3CY08 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker released today. It is giving a market...
