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February 14, 2008

TIP: Using Jungle Disk and Amazon S3 for backups

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14February

You've all heard of Amazon's Simple Storage Service by now. If not then check it out and sign up for own Web Services account. Amazon S3 gives you access to scalable storage for 15c per GB per month, with a 10c per GB data transfer cost. Assuming you just use the service to upload data for backup purposes you are getting high performance, scalable storage for 25c per GB per month. All...

February 14, 2008

Video.Show 1.0 released

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Jon Galloway gives us the low down on this really cool application. It uses Silverlight Streaming, AJAX Toolkit and .NET 3.5 and other goodness, and describes itself as delivering YouTube-in-a-box.
(Note, you'll need Expression Encoder installed)
Technorati Tags: Video.Show, Silverlight, Expression, .NET 3.5

February 14, 2008

Being the dumbest person in the room

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I really liked John Galloway's post on The Man who Knew Too Much, in which he outlines the wrong assumptions and actions we can sometimes make/take when surrounded by smart people, being too busy, etc. However, the item that caught my attention was his link to the strategy of aspiring to be the dumbest person in the room (it's about 2/3 the way down the page in Sally's answers)...

February 13, 2008

Appalling customer service – Woodstone

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13February

Here's an email our Sys Admin received in reply to a query to a vendor whose product wasn't working on our servers…

It made our decision to select a new vendor pretty easy.
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February 13, 2008

VS2008 Hot fix available

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Scott Guthrie has noted the hot fix fixes… Note, it is a huge download – coming in at a whopping 2.6 MB :-) See, it's not that hard to get fixes out. I said yesterday that I was impressed with how intent on producing high quality software Microsoft has been of late. This is yet another example. I need to be careful or I'll start getting labelled a fanboy. Technorati Tags:...

February 13, 2008

Australia said sorry today

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We finally said sorry today. I agree that we removed a "stain from the soul of Australia".
An apology is a liberating event. Forgiveness is the healer.
Never underestimate the power of words.
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February 13, 2008

On reducing spam

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Alan Lee gives an overview of how we reduced our spam email count here at Elcom. Interestingly, Alan found that 95% of all our email was spam – a figure that matched with reports I mentioned earlier in the year. The numbers: In the first week of implementing the changes we blocked 206,563 emails out of a total of 217,768 emails. Alan sent me an internal email with calculations of the cost...

February 13, 2008

100 Tips to Defeat Content Thieves

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The always excellent, helpful and well researched Virtual Hosting Blog has another ripper with this post on Tips to Defeat Content Thieves.
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February 12, 2008

Gangs using Social Networking to recruit

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12February

Yes, there are dangers to social networking, and this report outlining how gangs are targeting kids via social networking platforms is another to add to the list.
(via the Freakonomics blog)
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