Archive for October, 2007

Ron Paul “Under the Sea” (Andrew Followup Video)

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

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What is Five Nines?

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Only 5.26 minutes!

Availability %
Downtime per year
Downtime per month*
Downtime per week

90%
36.5 days
72 hours
16.8 hours

95%
18.25 days
36 hours
8.4 hours

98%
7.30 days
14.4 hours
3.36 hours

99%
3.65 days
7.20 hours
1.68 hours

99.5%
1.83 days
3.60 hours
50.4 min

99.8%
17.52 hours
86.23 min
20.16 min

99.9%
8.76 hours
43.2 min
10.1 min

99.95%
4.38 hours
21.56 min
5.04 min

99.99%
52.6 min
4.32 min
1.01 min

99.999%
5.26 min
25.9 s
6.05 s

99.9999%
31.5 s
2.59 s
0.605 s

References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_nines

Remember Remember the 5th of November!

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Join other Ron Paulers this November 5th for the largest one day political donation event in history. The goal is to bring together 100,000 people to donate $100 each, creating a one day donation total of $10,000,000.
Click the following link for more info about the Ron Paul Money Bomb.
http://thisnovember5th.com/ 
Click the following link to  to donate [...]

Ron Paul is Under the Sea!

Monday, October 29th, 2007

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Using mogrify To Batch Resize Image Files

Monday, October 29th, 2007

ImageMagick’s mogrify is a great command line tool to resize images.
You can resize all your JPG images in a folder to a dimension of 800×600 with this command:
mogrify -resize 800×600! *.jpg
You can resize all your JPG images in a folder to a width of 600 and  maintain aspect ratio with this command.
mogrify -resize x600 *.jpg
References
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/mogrify.php
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/command-line-options.php#resize
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/16524.html

Poison Sells Out To Microsoft! Say It Ain’t So

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

To my disappointment it seems like my favorite band has sold out to Microsoft. Is the XBox really “Nothing But a Good Time”? For me it is more like an “Unskinny Bop” or “Every Rose’s Thorn”. If you ask me, the Wii is much better! ;)
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Wheel of Lunch

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Ever wonder where you should go to lunch? This should help….
http://www.coverpop.com/wheeloflunch/

What will save ColdFusion? To Create Better Internet Applications Quickly and Easily! RIAMS?

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Straight from the ColdFusion WebSite, ColdFusion is promoted as a tool to “Create better Internet applications quickly and easily”. Following this simple slogan will put ColdFusion back on top.
A couple weeks ago I was designing my next big ColdFusion application, and was debating whether to use Mach-ii or Model-Glue. Currently about 30% of [...]

Another ColdFusion Trend Indicator?

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Is this another indicator about the prospects for ColdFusion?  Read the article ‘Is Adobe “Officially” Killing ColdFusion?’ over at Sys-Con (Click Here)

I am a YouTube Hero!

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Well not really, but a video I posted almost a year ago has had over 11,000 views. That is 30+ hits a day. I am actually the #1 result when you search for Alma Llanera on YouTube. I am not sure why anybody cares, probably just people passing by.
This was a performance by [...]