I'm just, uh, just feeling kinda... truthsome right now. And, uh... life's just too damn short for ifs and maybes.

Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'


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Rob - Mar 19, 2012 10:57:28 am PDT #19687 of 25501

Dreamhost dedicated server prices

$99 a month seems in the ballpark for a dedicated server.

That said, I think Amazon Web Services is the way to go for what shrift wants to do. That way they'd only pay for what they use and they wouldn't have to maintain anything in between test runs.

shrift I can try to help you get connected to your first ec2 instancing, if you like. I've done it a couple of times, it's finicky but not impossible.


§ ita § - Mar 20, 2012 9:00:02 am PDT #19688 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I can't believe I sat on updating from 802.11b this long. JESUS. Even though I only have a couple gigabit devices on my network, pretty much everything else is 100BaseT. No matter if the bottleneck is the internet connection, I'm doing a reasonable amount of communication between the various other devices *anyway*, and it's not like a little crack cocaine ever hurt anyone.

My brain likes to think the wireless is faster, and you know what? Why tell it different? No harm, no foul.

Anyway. Anyone on T-Mobile get regular messages telling you to restart your phone? My phone is complaining I haven't turned it off since February 28th, and that it should be restarted for optimum performance. Which, whatevs, except this comes up as an alert with an exclamation point and everything, which I'd really rather they reserve for something of import. Fine, I'll restart the damned phone to make it go away, but does anyone know of any other way (outside of rooting) to make it stop doing pointless stuff like that?


brenda m - Mar 20, 2012 9:02:08 am PDT #19689 of 25501
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Nope.

Pretty much the only time I turn it off is if I drop it on the floor and the battery pops out.


shrift - Mar 20, 2012 10:24:02 am PDT #19690 of 25501
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

$99 a month seems in the ballpark for a dedicated server.

To host a website, I think that's standard, but I'm not sure it'll suit my needs. I need something that I can install VMWare on and run some tests 24/7, while others would be intermittent. This is why I'm a little dubious about EC2 as a solution.

Now I'm waiting for Rackspace to call me back.


tommyrot - Mar 20, 2012 11:25:24 am PDT #19691 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Bad battery life? All those free apps could be to blame

When I see the word "free" I'm always wondering what the catch is. Maybe this is it: Researchers at Purdue University have conducted a study in conjunction with Microsoft that showed in some cases up to 75% of an app's total energy consumption was spent on locating and powering up the app's third party advertising.


Atropa - Mar 20, 2012 1:46:47 pm PDT #19692 of 25501
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Dumb tech terminology question: is CAGR a commonly-used term when talking about information growth and storage? Or is it a case of the doc author thinking they're being clever but not spelling out acronyms?


javachik - Mar 20, 2012 2:27:19 pm PDT #19693 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.

I don't think of it as "tech"? We used it all the time in marketing to financial services industry at Oracle, and in that setting a definition wasn't provided.


Atropa - Mar 20, 2012 2:41:16 pm PDT #19694 of 25501
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

This is very much in a context of information wrangling, storage, and scalability, and nothing to do with the financial industry. Which is why I went "Buh?" and googled the term.


javachik - Mar 20, 2012 2:42:23 pm PDT #19695 of 25501
Our wings are not tired.

Yeah, they totally need to spell that one out for the reader.


Dana - Mar 20, 2012 2:45:14 pm PDT #19696 of 25501
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

It's not a term I know, if that counts for anything.

Or is it a case of the doc author thinking they're being clever but not spelling out acronyms?

Don't they always?