re.last.fm
Giving last.fm a try again. My last last.fm usage was December 2008 according to my profile. I’ve been using Pandora for quite a long time and don’t really have any issues with it, I just figure it’s good to check back on the alternatives every once in awhile and see where they are at now. […]
Android 6 months later
It’s six months into my Android time so I thought I’d rattle off the apps I’m still using Twitter App has replaced Twidroid Pandora Default Browser AppMind ColorNote Touchdown Gowalla AndChat WaveSecure Dropbox ES File Explorer I also make extensive use of the camera and post to Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Picasa features
Greenplum vs Hadoop Disk Space
I’ve been spending a whole lot of time calculating Greenplum vs Hadoop disk usage. So here the general equation (MaxAllocFactor * DiskSize * ( #Disk – RaidDisks ) ) / ReplicationFactor MaxAllocFactor = Max recommended allocation. 70% for Greenplum and 75% for Hadoop DiskSize = Size of your drive #Disk = Number of drives RaidDisks […]
The Ops Data Choke
With all this chatter about big database warehouses and driving deep into business data to bring out insights I think it’s also good to take a look one of the other areas that experienced a huge choke on data and has been running into it for decades. There was a lot of talk these past […]
End of Days
Greenplum Days has come to a close and the last two sessions showed they saved the best for last. The Expansion/Fault Tolerance talk was far and away the pinnacle learning session, very much highlighting how 4.0 fixes some of the pain points in 3.3.x version and you can see the foundational building blocks for some […]
Greenplum Days – Day 2
At this point it’s the afternoon of Day 2 of the two day Greenplum Days conference. As a non-C level person I have gotten very little exposure to what the inner workings of Greenplum Chorus is, I have a feeling that isn’t an accident as people of my level would nail Greenplum with a multitude […]
What’s that Greenplum thing
Tomorrow I catch my flight to head to Las Vegas so I can attend Greenplum Days on Monday-Tuesday. I’m pretty excited about this trip even though I will be in Vegas and essentially spending all of my time in a conference. You see the last month or so I’ve been heavily working with the Greenplum […]
those 15 minutes
It might be that my 15 minutes of fame are now up. My mug showed up in the recent Mashable article on Gowalla’s port to webOS. I’ve been using Gowalla for awhile now even though it’s been pretty gimped on my Droid until the last few months, I did amazingly manage to score a iTunes […]
Microsoft Courier, the device I’m looking for
I’ve been looking at the details of the Microsoft Courier and it looks like the digital pad device that I’ve been looking for. Up until now the Dell Mini5 has probably been the closest to my dream device, what it represents it a larger android phone. The device I’ve been looking for is something that […]
Date stamps in cron
Dropping date stamps into output files of cron: 0 1 * * * /usr/bin/nightlythingthatruns.sh > nightlythingthatruns-`date +\%m\%d\%y`.log