Hahahaha
Just kidding - I know who they are - they make Farmville and Mafiawars and their motto is "do evil"
95% reduction in profit? Cool. Too bad it's not revenue. Soon.
Groupon too? Whoda thunk?
Update: 11/28/2011 - Zynga's nice work environment made slashdot. Big surprise. Don't think it'll affect anything.
Update 2 - Guess what - Groupon isn't the greatest thing for their vendors. "Without a doubt, the worst decision I have made". People will say that after their IPO too.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Microsoft paper Shows They're Cheaper than VMWare
According to El Reg, using Server 2008 r2 virtualization is much more economical than VMWare
here
In this case, be careful about the server licenses - where they show smaller quantities than they actually sell more to follow... Perry
here
In this case, be careful about the server licenses - where they show smaller quantities than they actually sell more to follow... Perry
Friday, September 23, 2011
Wow, just wow.
End of an Apotheker era, HP installs Whitman as CEO
Update:
The Motley Fool has this interesting article, with this quote:
" One of the board members who had never met Apotheker tried to explain: "I admit it was highly unusual. But we were just too exhausted from all the infighting." Try using that line on your boss sometime. "
Umm, yeah, it's only the chairman of HP.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
I'm Begging You... Please PLEASE Don't Gamble Online!
Shocker - Full Tilt Poker is nothing but a Ponzi Scheme - from El Reg
News Flash - And this goes double for online voting - There's NOWHERE that's easier to cheat than if you're running a web site.
Gambling, Voting - The online platform is ready made for cheating, the rewards are incalculable, and the people managing the process aren't, let's say, the most trustworthy
While I can only speak for the tech, really, trust me when I say the opportunities for cheating are incredible
Perry
News Flash - And this goes double for online voting - There's NOWHERE that's easier to cheat than if you're running a web site.
Gambling, Voting - The online platform is ready made for cheating, the rewards are incalculable, and the people managing the process aren't, let's say, the most trustworthy
While I can only speak for the tech, really, trust me when I say the opportunities for cheating are incredible
Perry
Monday, September 12, 2011
USAIR Bad, JetBlue Good?
I know - what did I expect?
Well, better than this - here's my letter to them:
I'm pretty disappointed - I bought a RT ticket from BOS to SAT, and got stuck with a middle seat from CLT to SAT. Now I see that the aisle seat behind me is available, but costs $24? My company won't pay extra charges but wouldn't have cared if that $24 was included in the original price. To top it off - I'm in Zone 5 for boarding. Really disappointed. I expected more. PS feedback form requires 19 fields filled in? Unbelievable.
After the flight: Better now. Plane was way full, guys on both sides of me were "large" but not XL, so whatever. At least I got my work done on the first flight. USAIR forgiven, sorta - they are sure above Sony on my S list but not way above. Delta on the return was Way Better. I still want to make blog called "Middle Seat For You"
Update 10-17-2011 - Flying with them again - middle seat to Charlotte - $26 to get an end. Last Window seat on the plane to SAT. $43 to move up to an aisle. Ugh! I guess I have to expect advertised price on USAIR gets a middle seat.
Update 10-27-2011 - Flew JetBlue to DC - My employer has negotiated great rates - less flights than USlessAir though - tried to change the time and told "$40 charge" by two people when I told them I had a refundable fare. On their advice, I took standby on the earlier flight. Do you see where this is going? Wrong. The person from checkin called the gate and asked for me by name. She apologized and said that she was confused when I said I had "Fully Refundable", and not "'Corporate rate' which is instantly changable". Gold Star for my employer and JetBlue negotiating great prices and policies, not so much for not telling us the code words. And of course JB doesn't have the secret free beer and wine that we get on the US/DEL shuttle - oh well.
Well, better than this - here's my letter to them:
I'm pretty disappointed - I bought a RT ticket from BOS to SAT, and got stuck with a middle seat from CLT to SAT. Now I see that the aisle seat behind me is available, but costs $24? My company won't pay extra charges but wouldn't have cared if that $24 was included in the original price. To top it off - I'm in Zone 5 for boarding. Really disappointed. I expected more. PS feedback form requires 19 fields filled in? Unbelievable.
After the flight: Better now. Plane was way full, guys on both sides of me were "large" but not XL, so whatever. At least I got my work done on the first flight. USAIR forgiven, sorta - they are sure above Sony on my S list but not way above. Delta on the return was Way Better. I still want to make blog called "Middle Seat For You"
Update 10-17-2011 - Flying with them again - middle seat to Charlotte - $26 to get an end. Last Window seat on the plane to SAT. $43 to move up to an aisle. Ugh! I guess I have to expect advertised price on USAIR gets a middle seat.
Update 10-27-2011 - Flew JetBlue to DC - My employer has negotiated great rates - less flights than USlessAir though - tried to change the time and told "$40 charge" by two people when I told them I had a refundable fare. On their advice, I took standby on the earlier flight. Do you see where this is going? Wrong. The person from checkin called the gate and asked for me by name. She apologized and said that she was confused when I said I had "Fully Refundable", and not "'Corporate rate' which is instantly changable". Gold Star for my employer and JetBlue negotiating great prices and policies, not so much for not telling us the code words. And of course JB doesn't have the secret free beer and wine that we get on the US/DEL shuttle - oh well.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Are Body Scanners Safe?
I think the answer is we just don't know.
I've read an article from a DNA researcher that might have put me over the top. Between my own scan cancer and both my mom and dad, I think it's time to bypass the scanners.
http://myhelicaltryst.blogspot.com/2010/11/tsa-x-ray-backscatter-body-scanner.html
I really don't want to make the TSA people angry, they're just doing their job and I'm sure they don't want to work next to those evil machines any more than I want to get inside.
I'll just have to be extra-charming. ( how hard can THAT be? )
Update - 11/2/2011
Well, I've been through the pat-downs a few times, now (2-3) and the airport security folks are pretty understanding, I haven't even had to play the cancer card. They've been great actually, but the physical patdown easily takes over a minute, and it has taken a few minutes to wait for a guard.
Oh, here's another paper that tells why we're using the scanners in spite of the rule that X-rays can only be used for a medical need.
For crying out loud - (this is for me too) Do some observation and get in the line using the magnetometers!
Perry
I've read an article from a DNA researcher that might have put me over the top. Between my own scan cancer and both my mom and dad, I think it's time to bypass the scanners.
http://myhelicaltryst.blogspot.com/2010/11/tsa-x-ray-backscatter-body-scanner.html
I really don't want to make the TSA people angry, they're just doing their job and I'm sure they don't want to work next to those evil machines any more than I want to get inside.
I'll just have to be extra-charming. ( how hard can THAT be? )
Update - 11/2/2011
Well, I've been through the pat-downs a few times, now (2-3) and the airport security folks are pretty understanding, I haven't even had to play the cancer card. They've been great actually, but the physical patdown easily takes over a minute, and it has taken a few minutes to wait for a guard.
Oh, here's another paper that tells why we're using the scanners in spite of the rule that X-rays can only be used for a medical need.
For crying out loud - (this is for me too) Do some observation and get in the line using the magnetometers!
Perry
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Red Hat releases KVM hypervisor 3.0
El Reg reports that Red Hat has released version 3.0 of its enterprise virtualization server, RHEV.
It appears that the biggest change is that you can now manage it from Linux and don't need Windows. Wait. What? I guess it had something to do with the QEMU technology that it got when it bought Qumranet in sept 2008 (huh?). Oh well - read the article yourself.
Code has been ported from .NET to Java, database has been ported to Postgres, you can still use Active directory to manage user logins, plus their own LDAP/Kerberos.
More scalable - up to 128 physical cores and 2TB main memory, guests can have 64 virtual cores and 2TB virtual memory.
Cost?
"Companies decide to standardize their Linuxes on RHEL, then they virtualize their workloads using either the integrated KVM or RHEV. Then, they look at the cost of vSphere from VMware and decide to try a few Windows workloads on RHEV. Thadani says that prior to VMware's vSphere 5.0 launch and its memory tax, RHEV cost about one-seventh as much per host to virtualize x64 machines with the same number of VMs. But in the wake of the virtual memory tax, even after VMware's rejiggering, RHEV now costs one-fifteenth to one-twentieth of vSphere 5.0 to virtualize a big, fat server."
This is pretty cool, and there are definitely places in labs where this technology should be tested.
[p]
It appears that the biggest change is that you can now manage it from Linux and don't need Windows. Wait. What? I guess it had something to do with the QEMU technology that it got when it bought Qumranet in sept 2008 (huh?). Oh well - read the article yourself.
Code has been ported from .NET to Java, database has been ported to Postgres, you can still use Active directory to manage user logins, plus their own LDAP/Kerberos.
More scalable - up to 128 physical cores and 2TB main memory, guests can have 64 virtual cores and 2TB virtual memory.
Cost?
"Companies decide to standardize their Linuxes on RHEL, then they virtualize their workloads using either the integrated KVM or RHEV. Then, they look at the cost of vSphere from VMware and decide to try a few Windows workloads on RHEV. Thadani says that prior to VMware's vSphere 5.0 launch and its memory tax, RHEV cost about one-seventh as much per host to virtualize x64 machines with the same number of VMs. But in the wake of the virtual memory tax, even after VMware's rejiggering, RHEV now costs one-fifteenth to one-twentieth of vSphere 5.0 to virtualize a big, fat server."
This is pretty cool, and there are definitely places in labs where this technology should be tested.
[p]
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