Just watching the countinued cat-and-mouse game between wiki-leaks, governments, and large corporations, its starting to seem like the beginnings of a civil war on the Internet, probably the first Internet world war. ISPs, Credit Card Companies, Banks, Radio stations, individuals, are all being targeted. I am sure that underneath all of this the collateral damage […]
MTN Kampala Marathon – 2010
The reality is that I need to train for the next one. I am still waiting for the official stats for my number 11528, but my first marathon was an experience How did it start, well I woke up at 5.30am, because I thought we were setting off early at 6:00am. I was at the starting line […]
Windows 7 and the 2GB RAM Issue
Now that Black Friday offers are sinking in, some of which are being extended into the holidays. Be it that laptop or desktop that you want, the issue always remains do I get 32bit or 64bit OS. Times have improved since Windows Vista, where 32bit and 64bit were two worlds apart. They are almost similar, […]
Goodbye Leslie Nielsen
Leslie, it was a pleasure watching you all through my teen age days. Your style of comedy was old-skool, spring fresh and just plain hilarious. Police Squad, Naked Gun, Naked Gun 21/2, Naked Gun 33 1/3 were the highlights of my youth movie scene. Watching them over and over again was a Saturday night treat. May […]
2010 Thanksgiving Wishes
To all my friends, family, colleagues and clients in the United States, this is to wish a joyful fun-filled Thanksgiving. During this time when family is at the fore-front of our minds, may you have safe travels and may the re-unions be all that you wish them to be. The state of the economy may […]
Google Need for “Page” Speed – The Web Developer’s Arsenal
Google the king of search has made the speed of websites and page loading a key actor in ranking. This coupled with the need to use 3rd party frameworks for front end development, like JQuery, MooTools, Scriptalicious, Yahoo YUI, to support the multitiude of browsers has a larger burden web developers. In true fashion however, […]
Virtual Machine – the New Way for Server Hardware?
On a client project, a new server has been provisioned 400GB HDD, 32GB RAM, Intel Xeon 5660 processor, CentOS 5 all in a virtual machine. The virtualization is transparent to us, so we can configure, restart it, back it up without any issues. Now we can test out running a MySQL database with all its […]
IP Cop – Linux, Old Computers, Broadband Combined
During the most recent switch of ISP, we foun that our bandwidth utilization was high, and we had to setup a transparent web proxy to cache commonly shared files. Our File/Print/Active Directory server is running Windows 2003 standard edition, and setting up any kind of proxy was convoluted, error prone and would affect the performace […]
Ooma Telo – A Revolution in VOIP Calls
Well it has been quite long since I last wrote over here, well travel, then catching up with projects and family have been the highlight of the last few weeks. One interesting take back is the VOIP phone from Ooma (http://www.ooma.com/). Its just a hub that plugs into a broadband connection and provides a US […]
Internet Explorer – A Link is not a Link
Someone said that the browser wars are over, well I am not sure of that, they will only be over when Internet Explorer from the great and mighty Microsoft (M$FT) as its called by open source advocates starts following standards and its own rules all the time. Having an HTML anchor tag () without an […]