JumpTV builds $49m .ppt, $1m CDN
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted in money, technology | 1 Comment »BeetTV reports that JumpTV has invested $50 million in a proprietary content delivery network (CDN), because the existing CDNs "couldn't provide what they need". Akamai is one of those existing CDNs. If you haven't dealt with Akamai before the bottom line ...
Firefox cache location
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007 Posted in computing | 3 Comments »Firefox cache is the same thing as Internet Explorer's "temporary internet files", it keeps copies of webpages that you visit on your harddrive so that the page may load quicker the next time you visit it. Even if you delete the ...
Bittorrent command line launch many curses
Thursday, October 18th, 2007 Posted in computing | No Comments »With the python Bittorrent client you can seed or download multiple torrents at a time and set max parameters for the group of torrents. For example with the command below I have limited uploads to 2,000 KB/sec (~16mbit/sec). launchmany-curses --torrent_dir /home2/torrentdirectory ...
Divx Connected
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 Posted in computing | 1 Comment »The Divx Connected, a streaming media player which can be used to play videos etc on your TV from your computer, is due to be released sometime this November. There are already quite a few similar devices on the market like ...
Bittorrent for linux
Monday, October 15th, 2007 Posted in computing | 4 Comments »If your ISP, like mine, throttles p2p traffic and you have access to a server it may well be quicker to download the torrent on your server and then download it via http or ftp to your computer. I have just ...
ClusterSSH
Monday, October 15th, 2007 Posted in computing | No Comments »I just found ClusterSSH, and I wish I had found it earlier. ClusterSSH allows you to send the same commands to multiple SSH connections / servers at the same time. This would of been really useful in the past when ...
UK to scare off entrepreneurs
Saturday, October 13th, 2007 Posted in money | No Comments »The UK is proposing to bring in a flat rate capital gains tax (CGT) at 18%. The base CGT tax at current is 40% but there is relief for certain assets and holding periods. One such relief is "business taper ...
Wordpress Thumbnail Fails
Friday, October 12th, 2007 Posted in computing | No Comments »Apparently wordpress thought that it would be a good idea to limit thumbnail generation to pictures less than 3 megapixels in size. Having worked with GD a lot I can not think why anyone would need to impose such a ...
Infrant Netgear ReadyNAS
Friday, October 12th, 2007 Posted in computing | 4 Comments »Infrant, recently purchased by netgear, make some great NAS units. I use them in both a datacenter and home environment. All of the units have been running for several months under heavy usage without any downtime or other issues. The Readynas ...
San Francisco Video
Friday, October 12th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »I visited San Francisco for the first time in January 2007, below is a video of the cab ride from the airport into the city. Unfortunately I didn't get a chance to take any more/better video, I'll get some on ...