fighting the lack of good ideas
It’s not news that the Itanium processor is doomed in its current incarnations. Microsoft has dropped support, as has Red Hat – meaning only HP supports it with an active platform in the US (with HPUX). The Itanim should have been Intel’s chance to totally walk away with the processor market – but they blew…
When I worked at Opsware, and for a while after HP bought us, we used to try to have once- or twice-a-week meetings for each support group wherein we would bring our most difficult cases (with the difficulty being determined by the case owner), and have an opportunity for everyone on the team to ask…
Q: What would need to go into an assessment tool for a virtualization initiative? A: Typical factors may include: current CPU load per server what’s running on each server current hardware of each server expected percentage increase in usage OS usage – homogenous or heterogeneous new hardware or re-use current hardware storage needs vendor for…
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Since I can’t register on Kevin’s blog, I’m replying here 🙂 He asked about where to find “mini” packages of laundry needs. Here’s what I do, I hit the dollar store if I’m going to be somewhere more than a few days – $3 and I have detergent, bleach, and fabric softener.
From a news story I saw today on RIM acquiring QNX, this quote jumped-out at me: “RIM’s acquisition of QNX could open the door for tighter integration between Blackberry devices and car computers, a capability that could be important as cars begin to drive into the cloud.” I wonder what folks would think if car…
Seth Godin has a cool write-up on the Acumen Fund, and what they’re doing to help the 40% of the world that ekes-by on $2 a day or less – http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/08/patient-capital-markets-that-work-and-ending-the-endless-emergency-of-poverty.html.
I’ve been reading recently abour various “unusual” power-generation methods. One of those that I’ve seen mentioned in several places is the solar updraft tower. After having read about that, I wonder why more industrial steam stacks don’t utilize something similar: if you’re throwing away the steam, couldn’t you put a VAWT or other energy-capturing device…