21 December 2011 ~ 6 Comments

Compellent “future proof?” Not so much.

TweetSo, I’ve written about Compellent a few times from a price perspective, mostly on the disk side. I was recently contacted by our vendor with quotes for two new Compellent controllers. “What’s this all about?” I asked. “Why don’t we have a call with Compellent to discuss?” he replied. I rolled my eyes a little [...]

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11 August 2011 ~ 0 Comments

FCC Report shows Verizon much faster than Cablevision

TweetThe FCC recently conducted a study of some of the top broadband ISPs in the country and measured customers’ actual bandwidth as compared to what the ISPs advertised. FiOS really came out on top. The report is available on the FCC site. The bottom line, though, is that Verizon FiOS averaged nearly 120% of advertised [...]

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27 July 2011 ~ 0 Comments

US Public Debt – historical

Charts and data related to growth of the US public debt from 1790 through 2010.

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17 July 2011 ~ 1 Comment

VMWare 5′s new licensing model.

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27 June 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Information is overpriced.

In which I show how cheap I am.

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20 May 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Back on FiOS again (finally)

Well, that was quite an ordeal.

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27 April 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Does anybody think the USA’s current healthcare system isn’t awful? Why?

A crazy late-night rant about the stupid health insurance system in the USA.

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24 April 2011 ~ 2 Comments

Going back to FiOS

TweetI’m not sure why these guys operate this way – they’re more than happy to lose me as a customer and then throw huge discounts at me to get me back. If they’d just give me a good price I’d love not to have to go through this rigmarole. But after being with Cablevision for [...]

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