by Vinny Carpenter on April 13, 2008
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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by Vinny Carpenter on January 7, 2008
Official Google Docs Blog: New features for 2008! - It's been two months since we launched Google Presentations and already we've got new toys! We've been listening to your feedback and working hard to get you new features as quickly as possible Amazon Web Services Blog: Increasing Amazon S3 Data Transfer Performance - The Amazon S3 team is now beta-testing support for an important low-level networking feature which has the potential to significantly increase the performance of large data transfers to and from S3, particularly (but not limited to) for long distance data Blueprint Grid CSS Generator - This tool will help you generate more flexible versions of Blueprint's grid.css and compressed.css and grid.png files. Whether you prefer 8, 10,16 or 24 columns in your design, this generator now enables you that flexibility with Blueprint. The Most Hated Company In the PC Industry - Asustek is the most hated company in the industry. Microsoft, Apple, Dell and Palm hate Asustek because the company can give us something they can't: A super cheap, flexible, powerful mobile computer. At $299, why would anyone not buy one?
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by Vinny Carpenter on October 7, 2007
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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by Vinny Carpenter on September 22, 2007
Competition is really a good thing - With AT&T breathing down cable based internet service, Road Runner has been upping the upload and download speeds on their Road Runner Turbo package. I just did a speed test and found my download speed to be 8.5 MB and my upload speed to be almost 0.95 MB.
Here are the results from speedtest.net:
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by Vinny Carpenter on July 26, 2007
Apache CXF: Interview with Dan Diephouse and Paul Brown - O'Reilly ONJava Blog - I recently had a chance to sit down with both Dan Diephouse and Paul Brown of Envoi Solutions to discuss the merger of XFire and IONA?s Celtix project into a new project, Apache CXF, currently under incubation at the Apache Software Foundation. Easy Ajax using Struts 2 - Kb - Struts 2 makes it easy to implement and test an Ajax Java Web application, using standard javascript frameworks such as Prototype. This wiki article gives technical notes on how to kickstart your Ajax Java development. Web Worker Daily » Blog Archive 12 Ways to Use Facebook Professionally « - Let?s look at 12 ways Facebook can benefit the web worker, particularly those who are home-based. The more connected you are to your co-workers and clients without being intrusive, the better your working relationship. AJAX Magazine: YSlow Helps You Speed up your web pages - Yahoo! released an excellent performance utility on YDN called YSlow, to help you understand why your pages are slow. YSlow is a Firebug addon Agile Ajax: Review of GWT in Action - The book does cover many of the new features in GWT 1.4, such as Image Bundling, the new loading mechanism, and the Serializable vs IsSerializable changes. As I've said, overall a fine effort. High Performance WordPress Presentation « Barry on WordPress - The slides from the HyperDB and High Performance WordPress presentation are now online via SlideShare Web page to PDF Firefox extension - LOOP is a unique extension for Firefox that converts the web browser into a proper PDF writer that can do some amazing things sometime not possible in other free PDF conversion software Work Together: 60+ Collaborative Tools for Groups - With businesses and families spread out more and more, we?ve dug up 60+ sites that will help everyone be on the same page InfoQ: Presentation: Introduction to Component Based Architecture - Mark Miller delivered an introduction to Component Based Architecture. In this presention he shares tips and tricks focused on maximizing the development strength of your team InfoQ: Using ETags to Reduce Bandwith & Workload with Spring & Hibernate - ETags are used in conjunction with the "If-None-Match" header on a GET request to take advantage of the browser cache. Because the server generated the ETag in the first place, it can use it later to determine if the page has changed. InfoQ: Bridging the gap between BI & SOA - To summarize, implementing a BI solution by using EDA and SOA is superior to using traditional ETL. Not only do we get our basic BI, but we actually get better, real-time BI?not to mention improvement in the overall quality of our SOA. How risk management affects agile approaches | confused of calcutta - Once you switch focus from content to process, agile techniques don?t stand a chance. Agile in a 'content' perspective leads to the Baconian 'A man that starts with doubts shall end in certainties'; … These two positions are polar opposites Json-lib 2.0 released - I'm pleased to announce that Json-lib version 2.0 has been released. JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans
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by Vinny Carpenter on July 22, 2007
Web page to PDF Firefox extension - LOOP is a unique extension for Firefox that converts the web browser into a proper PDF writer that can do some amazing things sometime not possible in other free PDF conversion software Work Together: 60+ Collaborative Tools for Groups - With businesses and families spread out more and more, we?ve dug up 60+ sites that will help everyone be on the same page InfoQ: Presentation: Introduction to Component Based Architecture - Mark Miller delivered an introduction to Component Based Architecture. In this presention he shares tips and tricks focused on maximizing the development strength of your team InfoQ: Using ETags to Reduce Bandwith & Workload with Spring & Hibernate - ETags are used in conjunction with the "If-None-Match" header on a GET request to take advantage of the browser cache. Because the server generated the ETag in the first place, it can use it later to determine if the page has changed. InfoQ: Bridging the gap between BI & SOA - To summarize, implementing a BI solution by using EDA and SOA is superior to using traditional ETL. Not only do we get our basic BI, but we actually get better, real-time BI?not to mention improvement in the overall quality of our SOA. How risk management affects agile approaches | confused of calcutta - Once you switch focus from content to process, agile techniques don?t stand a chance. Agile in a 'content' perspective leads to the Baconian 'A man that starts with doubts shall end in certainties'; … These two positions are polar opposites Json-lib 2.0 released - I'm pleased to announce that Json-lib version 2.0 has been released. JSON-lib is a java library for transforming beans, maps and XML to JSON and back again to beans and DynaBeans Active Directory Explorer v1.0 - Active Directory Explorer (AD Explorer) is an advanced Active Directory (AD) viewer and editor. You can it to navigate an AD database, define favorite locations, view object properties and attributes without having to open dialog boxes, edit etc. tecosystems » The RedMonk IT Report: Thanks Zimbra, Hello Google Apps - With only a week?s usage under our belt, it?s far too early to render a full verdict on Google Apps, but thus far I?m impressed. Getting Started with ICEfaces in WebLogic Workshop - ICEsoft's ICEfaces framework provides a way to Ajax-enable standard JavaServer Faces (JSF) applications without writing custom client-side Javascript code
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by Vinny Carpenter on June 2, 2007
Google kicks offline Web apps into gear | CNET News.com - The goal of Google Gears is to create a single, standardized way to add offline capabilities to Web applications. The initial code is aimed at JavaScript Ajax-style Web applications. It runs on IE & Firefox on Windows, Mac OS and Linux How to build the world's best paper planes | Lifeandhealth | Life and Health - Get designs for the world's best paper planes plus tips from aviation experts on how to make them fly faster and longer Christophe Coenraets » Flex-based SQLAdmin for Google Gears - The demo is a Flex-based Sales Force Automation application that uses Gears to save data to a local SQLite database while offline, and automatically synchronizes back with the server when you reconnect to the network. BEA WebLogic Event Server, First and only Java container for high-performance, event-driven applications - BEA WebLogic Event Server is the first and only Java container for high-performance event-driven applications It's Still the Latency, Stupid…pt.1 - If you think bandwidth is the only thing affecting your network speed, think again. As pipes get bigger, latency becomes the real bottleneck. This article discusses network latency, how to measure it, why its important, and how to plan for it. Complex con Fedora 7 released - You can find a tour filled with pictures and videos of this exciting new release of Fedora 7. This release includes significant new versions of many key components and technologies TableKit - TableKit is a collection of HTML table enhancements using the Prototype framework. TableKit currently implements row striping, column sorting, column resizing and cell editing using Ajax.
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by Vinny Carpenter on June 1, 2007
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by Vinny Carpenter on March 6, 2007
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by Vinny Carpenter on November 13, 2006
Just signed up for something called Road Runner Turbo which is the faster version of Road Runner cable Internet service that is supposed to provide up to 8 Mbps downstream and up to 512 Kbps upstream. And the results don't disappoint - Here is my bandwidth minutes after the upgrade:
Here is the before speed-test snapshot I had taken a couple of months ago. The download is almost twice as fast and the upload is at least 100K faster and close to 500kbps in other random tests.
PS: Speed Test conducted using the Speakeasy Speed Test flash application.
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