I’ve spent the last several days playing with and configuring CDH3B2 with Hbase. My test cluster is using an ESXi server with 20Gb of ram to boot up a bunch of CentOS5 VMs. Definitely not something that you’d want to run in production, but it works great for testing. Actually helps to expose some bugs due [...]
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Playing with ESXi
I had to test out a desktop virtualization product (Pano Logic) this week and as part of the installation I needed a VMware ESX base system. I’m a huge user of their Workstation product, but I had never used the ESX line since it used to be so expensive and required certified hardware. Things have changed though [...]
Mail issues on ios4
If you value your email, you’re going to want to hold off on upgrading your iPhone to ios4. There are several posts (here and here) detailing issues that users are having with the Mail app on ios4. For myself, email has become unusable. Often the mail icon will show that I have new mail, but [...]
Using Chrome
It’s taken awhile, but I’m finding myself starting to use Chrome as a browser more and more regularly. Firefox has started to get bloated again. I just don’t see why it seems to take so much memory, if I let it run awhile it tasks close to half of the 4G I’ve got on my [...]
Market Makers Shouldn’t Participate In Their Own Markets
There was a bit of questioning of the Risk Management Manager that when added to that of the CFO led to some very interesting insights into Goldman Sachs. The market making staff has the ability to hold or sell items that are taken opposite those of the customers at a time and place that maximizes [...]
Will the real Socialist please stand up
What a crazy idea, ask an actual socialist what they think of Obama’s so called “Socialist” policies. Turns out real Socialists aren’t that happy with Obama, the candidate closest to real socialism is actually Sarah Palin.
Kindle for the mac
Kindle for the mac was just announced last night. I was really excited and downloaded it immediately. The software is still listed as beta and definitely has a rough around the edges feel. But it does all of the basic things that kindle for the iPhone does. It allows you to pull in any of [...]
Playing around with the layout
I’ve updated the theme to try out a new look for the blog. I had originally placed a few types of ads on these pages, just so that I could try them out somewhere other than at the day job. But now that I’ve got ReadPath cranking there really isn’t any need to experiment here [...]
Kindle syncing
I’ve had a kindle since they first came out, I’ve loved it since day one and use it pretty much every night to read for hours on end. In the past I would leave the wireless off though. With the 1st Gen kindle you could get a lot longer battery life if you didn’t turn [...]
New Firefox is FAST
I downloaded Firefox 3.6rc1 last night and it’s noticeably faster than the current 3.5.7. I can’t wait till they release it officially. Seems like safari, firefox, chrome and webkit are just leaving IE in the dust. It’s great to have some healthy competition in the browser market.
Things task management
Now that I’m spending a good percentage of my day chasing around a 1yr old, my brain has gone to mush. I’m finding that if there are things that I need to do and I don’t jot them down, then they don’t get done. I was on the lookout for a really great notes/task management [...]
Sharing videos from the iPhone
I’ve been attempting to sync the videos that I take on my iPhone back to my desktop mac. It appears that the normal way that Apple envisioned you doing this was to sync with iPhoto which would then download the videos to your desktop. My problem is that I’ve got a fair of amount of [...]
It’s time for Leo to tell Dvorack “Thanks, but no thanks”
I’ve been listening to Leo Laporte’s Podcast Network since it started and haven’t missed a TWIT in years. It’s made sense that as he’s added more specialized podcasts, that the flagship “This Week in Tech” has become more of a general tech and media show. Not exactly how I would prefer it, but I can [...]
Kindle Time
Amazon has really got to think about updating the software on the kindle to allow the reader to display the current time at the top of the device. I’ve spent way too many nights reading for way too long and then not gotten enough sleep. I really end up paying for it the next day. [...]
Feeding Caitlin
Is it bad if, while you’re feeding your daughter dinner, you silently wish that she doesn’t finish so that you can get a bite of her food. Because it just looks so good. Jaimie has been making dinners for Caitlin ahead of time and they’re getting quite tasty.