Anandtech Begins a Major Upgrade Project
They are jumping right into virtualization. Their biggest concern is they are hitting the limits of their colos power envelope before they start getting charged. They are going to reduce their server footprint by about half and hopefully save some power as well. I’ll be tracking this however feel free to watch form Anandtech directly. AnandTech 2010 Server… Read more
How’s This for Change? Obamacare is Showing it’s True Costs Already.
Faced with mounting debt and looming costs from the new federal health-care law, many local governments are leaving the hospital business, shedding public facilities that can be the caregiver of last resort. via FOXNews.com – Cash-Poor Local Governments Ditching Public Hospitals.
Banks Find A New RipOff – “Professional” Cards – MarketTicker Forums
All you Self-employed or SMB folks read up. The new credit card regulations do NOT apply to you so get ready for the banskters to s art ripping you off as well. If you don’t have a “professional” card get ready to see a flood of credit card offers. Do what I have done and stay away from these altogether. Banks… Read more
Sotomayor Says Court May Rule to Limit First Amendment in Response to Wikileaks
Following the release of over 90,000 documents by Wikileaks in July, the Pentagon found no evidence that the disclosure harmed U.S. national security or endangered American troops in the field. The Pentagon review team consists of military intelligence analysts, lawyers and others working for the Joint Chiefs of Staffs and other elements of the Defense… Read more
The March to a One World Currency Continues
It was actually an idea floated by the economist whose failed theories haunt us today. Read the linked article for more. It’s getting closer folks..one world currency..etc etc etc. U.S. Postal Service Starts Quoting SDR to Dollar Conversion Rates, and IMF Endorses Replacing Dollars with SDRs ? Washington’s Blog.
Fredco Opts out of Race to the Top but not for the stated reasons
It’s not about tracking or expenses..at least not for the teacher’s union..look at the italicized text below. They don’t want to tie teacher’s evals to student performance. Well if your students are doing poorly it’s either the school’s fault or the teacher’s fault. I think this would give teacher’s the motivation they need to actually advocate for students instead… Read more
Equal rights group says Illegal Immigrants Have the Same Rights as non-illegals.
AND THEY ARE WRONG! If you are in this country illegally you have the right to remain silent…and get deported or jailed. That’s because if you are here illegally you are a criminal! You aren’t even a citizen of this country…or have a valid passport or visa, etc etc etc..you are here “without documentation”..aka illegally! This means you don’t have… Read more
Government wants your 401k..So Get Out of It
Government wants your 401k. The gov’t is going tos tart converting your 401k to bonds. Guess what happens when the US debt load(currently at over 25 trillion or more) get too big? The gov’t defaults on the bonds and your retirement is worth bupkis. Karl Denninger over at the market ticker called this last year that… Read more
Remember the old qbasic game where you played gorilas throwing exploding bananas?
Play Gorillas.bas, a free online game on Kongregate.
Egg recall expands to 32 million cartons in salmonella outbreak – Health – Food safety – msnbc.com
If you ahve any eggs in cartons with the following brands you may be under this important safety recall…that continues to expand. The recalled eggs are packaged under the following brand names: Lucerne, Albertson, Mountain Dairy, Ralph’s, Boomsma’s, Sunshine, Hillandale, Trafficanda, Farm Fresh, Shoreland, Lund, Dutch Farms and Kemps. The eggs are packed in cartons… Read more
Major Server Donation: Step 1 Server 1
What are the needs that this server can address? At this time the church’s website is hosted by powweb on their free package for non profits. Unfortunately their e-mail services are horrendously unreliable. We have a business class internet connection with a static ip. We have more than enough outgoing bandwidth to handle e-mail. While… Read more
What to do with a major server donation
You can read about the donation here. I have three IBM x335’s on the way with dual p-4 xeon 2.8 ghz cpu’s, dual 36 gig 10k rpm SCSI drives with hardware raid 1, 4 gigs of ram, all the cables needed including ILO, and rails. All for the cost of shipping. Why am I posting about it here? I run the… Read more
God Provides for FBC Once Again
Faith Baptist Church has been needing some technology help for a bit now. I’ve gotten to the point I do what I can but I know God is going to provide. Up comes the past week and a friend of mine in Seattle Washington. His employer, WTS Inc., is decommissioning a ton of p-4 based… Read more
Scared of the Public so we have to hide
Guess what? The “criminals” are going to be able to decrypt the communications anyway so hiding the transmissions does nothing. All this does is how the contempt you have for the general public. Safety is an issue with the current communication system for two reasons, Debord wrote. The dead zones are one reason. The other is the new system will have the… Read more
Why AVG Remains my reccomendation for businesses
Virus Bulletin : News – A third of anti-malware products fail to secure Vista Business Edition, Virus Bulletin reveals. If you look at the linked graphic you’ll see AVG proudly near the top with Symantec and Macafee much lower. Microsoft Security Essentials isn’t high on the chart either..wow. So if you really want an anti-something… Read more
Watch the reply of Brunswick Little League
I know this works for Comcast customers. I do not know if this is going to work for other providers. They had a great run. They got drubbed the last time they played this team. I think Brunswick did a great job in this season. I’m anxious to see what happens next year. Congratulations to… Read more
What Has America Become by Ken Huber of Tawas City
What Has America Become by Ken Huber of Tawas City. I could not have summed this up any better. Thank you for this letter Gen
The epitome of Jealousy
Gen jsut won an 8 gig Ipod touch from work. All I can say is…..GREEN!..:)
Time for a New Phone…Time to “Settle”
My trusty rumor now has the offs. It just decides it’s done and turns off. This is not a graceful shutoff either it’s like i pulled the battery off. It’s getting to the point the phone is getting very unreliable and difficult to use. However I really can’t afford the data plan at $150/month for my three line family plan…so I have to settle on something that’ll work.. just not what… Read more
Let’s Hope This Never Happens on YOUR call
The engine essentially locks up right after leaving the fire house requiring a shutdown and restart. Makes you wonder if it was running a MS operating system…:) IF I heard of this happening to one of our engines or any first responder gear I would have some direct questions for the station staff. rescue911.de –… Read more