Author Archives: Silicon Valley Dazed
Reef Central storage and bandwidth
Reef Central Online Community – Things that cost more than premium membership… 3 terabytes is how much data we send across the wire in a month. 3 gig is around the amount of text data we have on the site. The index into that data is around 7 gig. In addition to that we store … Continue reading
The Venture Capital Squeeze
The Venture Capital Squeeze Just as Joel Krause, one of the founders of Excite, mentioned in a recent article of Business 2.0, it can be pretty cheap now to start an online startup. Open source and LAMP is free, the server hardware is very cheap, and marketing through the web and word of mouth can … Continue reading
Western Digital Raptor vs. Maxtor Maxline III
We’re outfitting a new server here in the office, and it appears the Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74GB Serial ATA 10,000RPM Hard Drive w/8MB Buffer ($165 ZipZoomFly) is the fastest Serial ATA drive out there. It also has a five-year warranty and 1.2 million hours MTBF so it appears Western Digital is confident the high … Continue reading
Pa. Voters Have Different ‘Design’
Pa. Voters Have Different ‘Design’ | November 9, 2005 At least voters in Pennsylvania know where Intelligent Design should be in the science classroom!
Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design
Kansas Board of Ed. Adopts Intelligent Design Is that a sucking sound I hear as scientists and researchers leave the great state Kansas?
1Gb to 3Gb Ram increase for WebStar/Lasso on OS X
I added 2 1Gb sticks to our 1.8 Ghz PowerMac today in order to take care of the memory needs of Lasso since when Lasso was using a lot of memory, only a few megabytes of free RAM were available to the OS. The nice side-effect of this extra RAM is that WebStar and WebStar … Continue reading
Sony Style video made with 3ds max
Simply CG Network :: View topic – Sony Product Transformations *FINAL ANIM ON PAGE 3 Great modeling and animation with 3ds max.
Telling quote about violence in France
BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Violence exposes France’s weaknesses There is of course a huge well of fury and resentment among the children of North African and African immigrants in the suburbs of French cities. The suburbs have been woefully ignored for 30 years. Violence there is regular and unexceptionable. Even on a … Continue reading
USB boot for Macintosh
I hope once the Macintosh moves over to the Intel platform that one will be able to boot from a USB drive. USB 2.0 is fast at 480 Mb/Sec, and USB enclosures are usually less expensive and easier to find than Firewire drives. I guess we’ll see what happens in 2006.
Filemaker Server 5.5 auto startup on OS X
A script is needed for Filemaker Server 5.5 auto startup. Although this link gets you there, it starts up FM Server with root as the user so that FM Server config can’t access FM Server: FM Server 5.5 startup script To remedy this situation, in the FMPServer file, replace the code with this: #!/bin/sh . … Continue reading