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Example of Thailand Flooding on Hard Drive Prices

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Administrator

Hmmm … while looking at my Amazon cart today: Please note that the price of Seagate 1TB Barracuda 7200.11 Bulk/OEM Hard Drive ST31000340AS has increased from $160.00 to $225.00 since you placed it in your Shopping Cart. Items in your … Continue reading →

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Distributed Database Jurisdiction

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Administrator

During Web 1.0, companies were very careful where they hosted their databases. I worked at Netscape, and all databases were stored in the USA, even for international sites. Only partial caching was allowed offshore. It was a simpler era in … Continue reading →

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Caltrain and Privatization Issues

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Administrator

Caltrain is a small, urban railway that carries 40,000 passengers per day and operates between San Jose and SF. Caltrain faces a perpetual funding problem, as its farebox recovery ratio is only 41%. One would think that privatization might be … Continue reading →

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SVLUG: MapR Hadoop

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Administrator

Tonite at the Silicon Valley Users Group, Tomer Shiran, Director of Product Management, MapR Technologies, Inc. gave a talk on their MapR Hadoop product. Tomer did a great job of answering a variety of technical questions. In order to improve … Continue reading →

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BayPIGgies User Group: YouTube for Your Business

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Administrator

Google staff presented two talks at the BayPIGgies Python Users Group tonite: Python At Google (A Google IO talk) YouTube for Your Business Python At Google (A Google IO talk) Python 2.6 is an officially-supported production language, along with C++ … Continue reading →

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