All Entries in the "Technology" Category

Cloud, Private Cloud, Intercloud, Virtual Private Cloud: Storm is Coming?

Day 1, there are server farms that contains clusters of servers. Day 2, visualization arrives and creating virtual instance of hosts within the server farms. Day 3, there are clouds of virtual hosts. Day 4, corporations do not trust 3rd party clouds [...]

Mac OS X Snow Leopard: More Usable Storage Space, a Myth?

According to Apple’s Snow Leopard web site, the new cat has a smaller footprint:

Snow Leopard takes up less than half the disk space of the previous version, freeing about 7GB for you — enough for about 1,750 more songs or a few thousand more photos.

One  of the reasons could be related to the PowerPC code [...]

Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Instant Review + Upgrade Notes

Originally, I would like to wait for a couple weeks before installing the new Mac OS X Snow Leopard.  However, my co-worker has an extra copy so I bought it from him and decided to install on my Macbook Pro 15″ (non-unity body model).  I don’t want to screw up my 24″ iMac, which is [...]

New eBook Readers from Sony

Sony just announced 3 new models of ebook readers to replace the existing model.  The 5-inch Pocket Edition costs US$199.  The 6-inch Touch Edition costs US$299.  The 7-inch Daily Edition comes with AT&T 3G service for free and it only costs US$399.  All the models come with digital library card so the user can borrow [...]

Cloud Computing and Me

What is cloud computing?  There are many definitions of cloud computing:

According to Wikipedia,

Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over the Internet . Users need not have knowledge of, expertise in, or control over the technology infrastructure in the “cloud” that [...]