Sunday, April 11, 2010

Brandchef: Besætning bag brand på Scandinavian Star

Brandchef: Besætning bag brand på Scandinavian Star: "Den første brandmand, som ankom til katastrofeskibet Scandinavian Star, mener at besætningen må have påsat branden og derefter saboterede slukning."

Man skulle give besætningen fuld immunitet i dag, så lang tid efter, og så gå efter alle der kan have haft kendskabe til planerne. Hvis Lene E kan få klø for at skippe et planlagt møde, hvad skal man så give folk der kender til planlagt brand-påsættelse?

Thursday, March 11, 2010

What could you do with sub 20k USD x86/x64 server with 48 cores at 2.2 GHz

Using NetBSD we match the performance of one of Cisco's new routers utilizing their new Cisco QuantumFlow Processor - well except for the power consumption. Though our solution is non-green, it will take more than a couple of years before the additional x86 power-cost catches the Cisco equipment+IOS cost.

At a higher layer, you finally have the message-hub HW platform you never knew you needed when you first introduced your CIO to the ESB :-)

You realize that, given enough spindles, this 48 core machine actually makes the NCR/TeraData warehouse scale linearly when you query multi TB data.

Someone copyrights the CloudInABox term, and Intels sues them and wins, because it is too close the their future concept of CloudOnAChip.

You don't have to buy additional hw to handle 20.000+ concurrent Exchange users - but you will get ripped of by VMware and Microsoft.

Someone tries to upgrade their maxed out 4xQuad 3.33 GHz OLTP database server to this 48 core 2.2 GHz cloud-box - and they fail - because the query-queues fill up.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Next stop - go to jail for a non-blocked free service

Read this http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/serious-threat-to-web-in-italy.html, and imagine who else should be or should have been prosecuted.

Quotes
- "In late 2006, students at a school in Turin, Italy filmed and then uploaded a video to Google Video that showed them bullying an autistic schoolmate"
- "Nevertheless, a judge in Milan today convicted 3 of the 4 defendants — David Drummond, Peter Fleischer and George Reyes — for failure to comply with the Italian privacy code."

Who else contributed to this specific privacy code violation?

Producers of the video-equipment:
- the recorder company employees
- the tape/media company employess
- broadcasters - here I mean all the internet-providers transfering the IP-packets with the video - ISP employees
- YouTube employees
- all the viewer-software and viewer-machine employees
- human viewers
- anyone viewing pictures of the video
- owners of video-copies in any form on harddisks/flash/backup-media (not necessarily having seen the video)

Guess how it adds up if in-direct privacy code violators could be made responsible
- tape/media-plastics producers
- electricity producers
- Video and IP-packet standards and those who defined the standards
- reporters covering the news
- me - for commenting on it

What can you learn from this?

- You really has to watch out for - who you work for and what services and products your employer is delivering in Italy on your initiative
- YouTube will have to close down its Italian services to protect its employees
- All video service providers in Italy are gambling with their employees freedom
- Destroy all your Italian holiday video to avoid the risk of going to jail
- Don't record any future video in Italy