Monthly Archives: November 2005
Small Business Trends » Case Study: Moving a Business Blog from Blogger to WordPress
Small Business Trends » Case Study: Moving a Business Blog from Blogger to WordPress Good post on why this person moved from Blogger to WordPress.
Google offers Silicon Valley home free wireless Internet – Yahoo! News
Google offers Silicon Valley home free wireless Internet – Yahoo! News This is great as a resident of Mountain View. I wonder what the coverage and speed will be once everything’s implemented. I read somewhere else that 1,000 of Google’s employees lived in Mountain View.
AnandTech: Inside Microsoft’s Xbox 360
AnandTech: Inside Microsoft’s Xbox 360 In order to keep the Xbox 360 small, they had to make an external power supply. From the picture, you can see it’s about 1/3 the size of the Xbox 360 itself! I really hate external transformers. That gray brick must also be pretty heavy.
Movies for Adults – Why Hollywood won’t make them anytime soon.
Movies for Adults – Why Hollywood won’t make them anytime soon. By Edward Jay Epstein Here’s the money quote: The drop in the audience in 2005 is hardly a new phenomenon. Since the advent of television in 1948, the movie audience has declined in most years. Annual ticket sales have fallen from 4.6 billion tickets … Continue reading
Memory under memory monitor
OSXFAQ – Technical News and Support for Mac OS X Memory Monitor show the memory usage under Mac OS X. There are 4 main components to memory usage based on the total amount of memory installed: * Free Memory: This is memory available for use immediately by an application or the system. * InActive Memory: … Continue reading
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?