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Road Runner vs. U-verse
I am one of those people who hate Time Warner (because of the crappy and recently unreliable service) that can't wait for Verizon FOIS or AT&T U-verse or anything faster to show up in my neighborhood. My dream Internet provider for home would be what people in Europe have - 50Mbps connections but I'll settle for Verizon's Faster Plus services that claims to provide 15 Mbps download and 15 Mbps upload. But Verizon is slowly rolling this out and I am not going to get this for a couple of years. AT&T U-verse is my only salvation as they are slowly offering service in my neighborhood and their Max plan would work for me. U-verse Max offers 10 Mbps download and 1.5 Mbps upload and that would just rock but Time Warner has been upping their game in terms of broadband speed (not service or reliability, mind you) and I am currently getting 15Mbsp download and 1Mbps upload.
I just did a bandwidth test and discovered that I am truly getting close to 1 Mbps upstream and that's pretty awesome as I use Mozy for my remote backup and I also use Rsync and Subversion to backup my code and other essentials files to my remote (Linux) server. My current thought is to get the AT&T U-verse service and run it side-by-side with my Road Runner connection for a while and see which one is consistently reliable and faster. I sure hope its AT&T as I would like nothing better than to dump Time Warner.
If you're not using Mozy (or another online backup provider), you should consider getting one!
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Daily del.icio.us for April 12th through April 13th
- Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Rsync - This document describes a method for generating automatic rotating "snapshot"-style backups on a Unix-based system, with specific examples drawn from the author's GNU/Linux experience. Snapshot backups are a feature of some high-end industrial file server
- Flex, Spring and BlazeDS: the full stack! (Part 1) - In this article series, I’ll try to give you a step-by-step process to create an application with Flex/BlazeDS/Spring/Hibernate/MySQL architecture, all of that built with Maven.
- Saki’s Blog » Blog Archive » Simplest 3 Columns Layout with CSS - After experimenting with Designing a 3 columns web page using TableLayout
I have came with the solution that is, IMO, simplest possible: - Saki's Ext Examples Page - I have been actively helping on Ext Forums for some time and during this period I have found out that most effective help for members is to give them a well written running example that they can either modify for their purposes or it just gives them an an
- Saki’s Blog » Blog Archive » Writing a Big Application in Ext - I have decided to write this article for those users of Ext 2.x that have already grown up from having one HTML page with embedded script that creates one simple window or form, for those who are already decided that Ext is the way and for those who are f
- behind the times: 10 Best IDEA Inspections You're Not Using - Let's clarify. By "Best" I mean the ones I like. By "You're Not Using" I mean they aren't enabled by default. By "Inspections" I mean those little code warnings that IDEA gives you which can be configured under Settings (Ctrl+Alt+S) Errors (6).
- A List Apart: Articles: Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards - There are plenty of options out there for data visualization, too. Google’s recently-announced Charts API is a great example, but there are a number of tools and services for creating charts and graphs as images and for making interactive visualizations
- Introducing Java 6 update 10 - Don't be fooled by its unassuming name: the upcoming Java 6 update 10 is a very different animal than the updates that preceded it. Java 6u10 pushes the envelope by adding more new features and functionality than in any previous Java programming language
- InfoQ: Spring Web Services 1.5 Released - After 6 months of work, Spring Web Services 1.5.0 has been release. Based off contract-first development using SOAP service development, Spring-WS can be manipulated through XML to create document-driven Web services
- Sun Claims Big Leap with MySQL Upgrade Next Week - CIO.com - Business Technology Leadership - Among the advances in 5.1 are partitioning, events scheduling, row-based replication and disk-based clustering. They are fairly standard features already offered by rivals IBM, Oracle and Microsoft, but they should help MySQL compete in environments where
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Daily del.icio.us for January 11th
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- Data Binding in Java - In this interview with Artima, Shannon Hickey, spec lead for the Beans Binding API, JSR 295, discusses the challenges of Java data binding, and how the JSR 295 API simplifies that task.
- A Rails Developer Moves To Grails, Grails Developers Make The Case - Grails developers are making their case for Java developers to consider Grails as the next generation framework for developers to consider adopting. Darryl West a Rails developer recently switched to Grails and offered 10 reasons why Rails developers may
- First experiences with IntelliJ… and its stunning Groovy/Grails support - Glen Smith - So first impressions are excellent. The IntelliJ guys have done a really nice What's new page where you can see all the integration points with a ton of screengrabs.
- Jungle Disk Plus - Jungle Disk 1.50 includes support for the new, optional, Jungle Disk Plus service. Jungle Disk Plus adds several highly requested features to the basic Amazon S3 service, including web access to your files, upload resume, and block-level file updates.
- XML Spreadsheet Reference - This reference describes the elements and attributes that make up the XML Spreadsheet (XMLSS) schema when the data in Excel 2002 spreadsheets and Microsoft Office XP Spreadsheet Components is exported to the Extensible Markup Language (XML) format.
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Goodbye Carbonite - Hello Mozy
I have or should say had been a Carbonite user for almost an year but issues after issues finally got to me and the lack of new features that were long promised but never delivered forced me to start looking at the automated online backup again and I am so glad I did, as I've found Mozy. I've had numerous problems with Carbonite and their customer service was crappy. So I decided to give up on Carbonite even though I had already pre-paid for 2 years – I guess it's better to lose $80.00 than all your data.
Mozy is similar to Carbonite in some regards but has a much richer feature set that makes it a better offering. Like Carbonite, Mozy installs a small client on your Windows XP/Vista or OS X desktop that runs in the background and backs up files over the Internet using your broadband connection. But that's where the similarities end. Carbonite is a fairly bare-bones offering which may be ok for most novice users but Mozy offers several configuration options like creation of backup sets, file versions, access to your files via the web and many other features.
One of the best and most important feature that set Mozy and Carbonite apart is the fact that you can actually get your backed files back. Wow! What a concept - I know I know. When I first installed Carbonite, I did several test restores and they worked fine but when I had been backing up for several months and really need to restore something, Carbonite let me down. Mozy on the other hand has never done that. Another awesome feature of Mozy is that fact they don't really throttle your bandwidth after you've uploaded 50 GB. Carbonite seems to limit upload bandwidth to about 2 GB a day and then throttle it down after you reach 50 GB. Mozy doesn't seem to play any of those games and allows uploads that are supported by your bandwidth. On an average day, I think I was uploading about 5+ GB.
Another recent event that makes Mozy even more attractive to me is the purchase of Berkeley Data Systems, providers of Mozy online backup by EMC Corporation. As you probably know, EMC is the leader is the storage market and owns Documentum, VMWare, and RSA among other technology companies.
So if you are looking for a great, reliable and affordable backup solution for your home computer, you should check out Mozy.
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Daily del.icio.us for Apr 13, 2007 through Apr 17, 2007
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- James Ward's Blog » Blog Archive » My Recent Flex & Apollo Adventures - A while back Bruce Eckel and I recorded a screencast of us building a Flex application with Hibernate and XFire on the backend. I finally got around to packaging the code for that demo. You can get it from SourceForge.
- rakaz - Make your pages load faster by combining and compressing javascript and css files - Thanks to a small PHP script and some clever URL rewriting I now have an easy to maintain method to speed up the loading of pages that use many or large css and javascript files.
- Vitamin Features » Serving JavaScript Fast - The next generation of web apps make heavy use of JavaScript and CSS. We?ll show you how to make those apps responsive and quick.
- lightWindow - Another decent lightbox Javascript library (via Ajaxian) - After researching every single modal window, lightbox, slimbox, etc out there nothing fit the bill. Granted some of them were very nice but only fit a specific purpose
- Dynamic languages: More than just a quick fix | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2007-04-16 | By Andrew Binstock - IT's rise to prominence as a core competence that delivers competitive advantage has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in the number of software development projects it must complete
- Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Rails Developer David Heinemeier Hansson?s Response to Alex Payne?s Interview [dive into mark] - LAUGH OUT LOUD funny take from Mark Pilgrim, John Gruber style.
- Wordpress Performance: Why My Site Is So Much Faster Than Yours by Elliott Back - There?s no good reason for Wordpress or your site to be slow, except your own negligence. Cache everything. Monitor performance
- Tim Sneath : Introducing Microsoft Silverlight - Silverlight (previously codenamed "WPF/E") is a lightweight subset of XAML for building rich media experiences on the web.
- Java Community News - BEA Releases JRockit R27.2 with Java 6 Support - BEA's latest JVM release, JRockit R27.2, is the first implementation of the Java 6 VM. In addition to providing full Java 6 support, the latest JRockit VM includes many-fold performance improvements, especially for applications with short-lived objects.
- Enomalism : XEN Virtualized Server Management Console: Amazon EC2 Migration - The Enomalism Elastic migration module is a migration tool kit for the management and migration of virtual images between your local xen based enomalism environment and the remote Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Environment.
- Everybody Hates Don Imus - Frank Rich's brilliant column - Even in that short span, there?s been an astounding display of hypocrisy, sanctimony and self-congratulation from nearly every side of the debate
- Dev2Dev Online: Open Source and BEA - BEA believes in open source. We believe a blended strategy for application development and deployment?combining the best of open source and commercial software?provides important freedom and flexibility not available through all-or-nothing approaches
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Daily del.icio.us for Mar 07, 2007 through Mar 08, 2007
- Spotlight: Michael Oxley - International Herald Tribune - Knowing what he knows now about the cost and effects of the law, would Oxley - who retired in January after 25 years in Congress - have done it any differently? "Absolutely," Oxley answered. "Frankly, I would have written it differently, and he would have
- Adobe edits the development cycle | Reg Developer - The change we made was going from a traditional waterfall method to an incremental development model. Probably the most effective thing we did was institute per-engineer bug limits: if any engineer's bug count passes 20, they have to stop working on featu
- JetS3t ? An open source Java toolkit for Amazon S3 - JetS3t is a free, open-source Java toolkit and application suite for the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The JetS3t toolkit provides Java programmers with a powerful yet simple API for interacting with S3 and managing data stored there.
- Six cool things you can build with OpenID - Apart from explaining what OpenID is and how it works, the key point I was trying to get across in the talk was that OpenID is a simple piece of infrastructure on which smart applications can be built?applications that may not have been possible prior t
- Flash Demo : Matisse++ ? (cld.blog-city.com) - Roman Strobl has a very cool new Matisse flash demo. It makes use of the new Swing Application Framework and Swing Databindings. If you ever wondered about Matisse++ or what happens after Matisse then you should take a look at a very cool NetBeans 6 and a
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Carbonite Rocks - Backups Made Easy
Update (Oct 6, 2007): I have stopped using Carbonite and switched to Mozy for a while now. I've had numerous problems with Carbonite and their customer service was crappy. So I decided to give up on Carbonite even though I had already pre-paid for 2 years - I guess it's better to lose $80.00 than all your data. Mozy rocks and I haven't any any problems with them and EMC just bought them and so they are now part of a much larger storage company. I think this will be great news for all Mozy users. Mozy is at http://www.mozy.com/
I've been using Carbonite in addition to my local backups to external drives and Carbonite really works great. Carbonite is basically Windows backup software tied to an online automatic backup service that uploads and backups your data over your broadband connection. Your data is encrypted and stored in their remote data center and can be restored using the same broadband connection.
The nice thing about Carbonite is the set-it-and-forget-it nature of the software. Once you decide what items you want to backup, you just forget about Carbonite and it backs up your data. You can back up unlimited amounts of data for $5.00 per month or buy a yearly subscription for $49.00. I purchased a 2 year subscription and just finished up backing over 90 GB to the Carbonite servers. Carbonite typically backs up about 2 GB a day and then slows down to .5GB per day once you have backed up 50GB of data.
The only issue I've seen so far with Carbonite is the lack of Windows Vista support. While Carbonite was backing up my system, I upgraded my box to Windows Vista and Carbonite continued to work. But I am not sure I am going to be able to restore things correctly and it's not Carbonite's fault. It's another stupid thing Microsoft did in Vista where all of the user settings documents were moved from "C:\Documents and settings" to C:\users to make it look more like MAC OSX. My Documents become Documents and My Music became Music. Why – No one knows? I am working with Carbonite support and they hope to have an update to their software for Vista and I hope they have a fix for this issue.
If you are interested in trying Carbonite free for 15 days, click this [link deleted].
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Daily del.icio.us for Oct 30, 2006
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In this interview with InfoQ.com on release day last Thursday, Keith discusses the Spring Web Flow 1.0 feature set and 1.1 roadmap, as well as the history of the project. You'll gain insight into how the project started and what were some of the key chall
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The process of converting an existing physical machine to virtual for running under VMware can be convoluted, tedious, and fraught with peril. The free (for now, at least) VMware Converter 3.0, now in beta, greatly s
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OWASP is happy to announce the first release of OWASP Pantera – Web Assessment Studio. Pantera is a mix between a pentest proxy, an application scanner, and an intelligent analysis framework. Pantera’s goal is to leave the analysis and automatic (rep
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Berners-Lee hopes to establish a new working group that will focus on revising and improving the HTML standard while working to bridge the gap between HTML and XHTML
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Ubuntu Edgy Upgrade Common Problems With solutions
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For our 15-minute challenge, we will backup a MySQL 5.0 database on Linux. We will only use freely downloadable open source software for the solution.
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Daily del.icio.us for Sep 18, 2006
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HP Media Vault — NAS we go again - Engadget
The HP Media Vault, a run of the mill RAID 0/1 unit coming in either 300GB / $379 (with one empty bay) or 500GB / $549 (with one empty bay) configurations. It'll also feature gigabit Ethernet, three USB ports, and expandability up to 1.2TB
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Carbonite will automaticlaly backup your PC over the Internet for $5 per month with encryption. Wonder if they are using Amazon S3 under the covers? (via TechCrunch)
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BEA looks to tap Web 2.0 for Enterprise | InfoWorld | News | 2006-09-18 | By Paul F. Roberts
Graffiti, Runner, and Builder will add social bookmarking to BEA's portals and will give non-IT staff the tools to create blogs, wikis, and other lightweight applications that tap into BEA�s service infrastructure
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