Meet the Press

As my most recent information seems to now be on Amazon I have wrapped that into an easy link with links back to this site. It can be found at http://krypted.com/amazon.

Posted on February 20, 2010 at 8:00 am by admin · Permalink · One Comment
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Updated Amazon Author Page

Updated the Amazon Author Central page with some new information. This includes a little video, a little Bio, a little rss integration and a schedule of speaking events. Also, it includes what appears to be another book… Hope you enjoy! http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001JPC32I

Posted on January 22, 2010 at 7:00 am by admin · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Amazon AuthorCentral

I now have an Author Page at Amazon. Not sure why I’m just now getting around to setting this up: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001JPC32I

Posted on January 14, 2010 at 8:00 am by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Books Redux

The books page had been pulled down for a little while due to some issues I was having embedding images. So I went back to the drawing board and found a way to get a carousel of images. So the page with the books I’ve done is back up and online. Hope you like (and [...]

Posted on December 24, 2009 at 1:46 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Cyber Monday

You remember in the The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when Riff Raff and his sister do that weird elbow sex thing? The word “Cyber” conjures up an image of two people on either side of a network connection doing just that with their computer monitor. One looking like Riff (the girl) and the other looking like [...]

Posted on December 1, 2009 at 12:59 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Virtual Private Clouds

VPN-Cubed was a solution that Amazon listed for some time, allowing users of EC2 or S3 cloud services to VPN their resources in Amazon’s cloud to their own offices. But Amazon recently went a step further with their own offering and now provide the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. Pricing is based on a per-VPN connection, [...]

Posted on September 3, 2009 at 12:07 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Deploy EC2 En Masse

Render farms, cluster nodes and other types of distributed computing often require using a lot of machines that don’t have a lot of stuff running on them and are only needed during certain times.  Such is the life of a compute cluster, which is what EC2 is there for.  Because cluster nodes are so homogenous [...]

Posted on May 4, 2009 at 2:26 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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A Saturated Cloud Backup Market

It’s not that it all started with Amazon, but they were certainly the ones to mainstream cloud-based storage.  Now, there are a variety of services such as Mozy (with CrashPlan) and BackBlaze from some of the smaller, niche  players (both of them support the Mac) to Apple (can you say Mobile Me), Microsoft, Amazon (who [...]

Posted on December 9, 2008 at 11:48 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Final Cut Server: Using Amazon S3 for Archival

Final Cut Server allows you to archive the primary representation (or the original file) for assets that are cataloged.  When you do so, the proxy clips (low resolution versions) of your assets still live on the Final Cut Server.  However, the primary representation, once moved to your archive device can then be archived off to [...]

Posted on November 14, 2008 at 9:25 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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The Seven Wonders of the Internet World

The Google Search Engine is probably the top wonder in the Internet world.  Why, because it’s just so friggin’ huge!  But, also because it involves Google Maps, is integrated with gMail and well, is just a better engine than the other’s.   Wikipedia – and don’t forget specialty wiki’s like http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page or even (as depressing as [...]

Posted on September 22, 2008 at 3:02 pm by admin · Permalink · Leave a comment
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