Ideas for Apple: AirPort Mobile Tethering

 Posted on October 1, 2008  |  Erik

Ideas for Apple: AirPort Mobile Tethering: “The previous segment looked at how Apple is uniquely situated to deploy ubiquitous WiFi by offering iTunes affiliate commissions to encourage casual AirPort sharing. A second issue Apple is poised to solve relates to iPhone tethering. Here’s what the current problem is and how it could be solved” (Via RoughlyDrafted Magazine.) An interesting article from Daniel Eran Dilger that bears some reflection. I think that there’s definitely some legs to this idea, especially with the integration of a microphone with the latest iPod Touch. [Read More]

PC Coders Avoiding Vista, Mac Coders embracing Leopard

 Posted on September 19, 2008  |  Erik

PC World - Business Center: Coders Tell Why They’re Avoiding Vista: “Windows developers are confirming the results of a survey released yesterday that found fewer than 1 in 12 programmers currently writing applications targeting Windows Vista.” (Via PC World.) Contrast this against the following article, published in January over at Theocacao. Cocoa developers are champing at the bit to implement their products using the new libraries available in Leopard and pushing the compatibility envelope along with it. [Read More]

RE: "An iPhone with a keyboard? Never!" Well,…

 Posted on September 19, 2008  |  Erik

_newswireless.net .:. News .:. “An iPhone with a keyboard? Never!” Well,…: “Worldwide, it has not escaped the attention of mobile network execs that the bulk of corporate sales are not into the executive corridor. Rather, they are phones which are provided for staff, and the vast bulk of them have full-QWERTY keyboards; and all the best-selling ones, Nokia, Sony-Ericsson and HTC alike, have slide-out keyboards. The popular Danger Sidekick, too, has a slide-out (spin-out) QWERTY keyboard. [Read More]

Re: Apple Should Go After the Corporate Computing Market

 Posted on September 19, 2008  |  Erik

Apple Should Go After the Corporate Computing Market: “I do have a market size estimate for servers, though. According to research firm Gartner (NYSE: IT), global server sales topped the $54.8 billion mark last year, up 3.8% from 2006. And Apple ain’t even playing that game. It doesn’t take much of a market share here to make a big difference.” (Via The Motley Fool.) Yes Apple should be going after the server market, but as I mention in my recent article, they’d be much better off going after it from the software side, rather than the hardware side. [Read More]

Re: Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge

 Posted on September 19, 2008  |  Erik

Brute-Force SSH Server Attacks Surge – Security – InformationWeek: “The number of brute-force SSH attacks is rising, the SANS Internet Storm Center warned on Monday. ‘[T]here has been a significant amount of brute force scanning reported by some of our readers and on other mailing lists,’ said Internet Storm Center handler Scott Fendley in a blog post. ‘… From the most recent reports I have seen, the attackers have been using either ’low and slow’ style attacks to avoid locking out accounts and/or being detected by IDS/IPS systems. [Read More]

How Many IOPS?

 Posted on September 3, 2008  |  Erik

_How Many IOPS?: “A question I get asked occasionally is; ‘How many IOPS can my RAID group sustain?’ in relation to Enterprise class arrays.” (Via The Storage Architect.)_ An excellent little reminder about how to estimate your storage bay’s performance capabilities. It also makes me wonder if we aren’t approaching the question of shared storage the wrong way. Instead of asking each vendor what the best performance they can get, how about we ask them the worst we can expect? [Read More]

Reflections on current product Apple rumours

 Posted on August 29, 2008  |  Erik

So in the ongoing saga that involves trying to guess Apple’s next move we’re in the summer of 2008 looking at a few tidbits of information: 1. The stock alert that a product shift will impact margins An aging iPod lineup The growing netbook market The ever falling price of memory As for point #1, this has become a pretty standard alert from Apple and I don’t think that we can draw too many conclusions from it. [Read More]

VMware SANMelody support

 Posted on August 29, 2008  |  Erik

This is a milestone for Datacore. The SANMelody product is now fully certified by VMware as a supported solution in the iSCSI configuration. I expect that it’s only a matter of time now that the FC interface will be certified as well. SANMelody has been a community certified product for quite a while, but getting the official stamp of approval from VMware is a big deal for a lot of clients that want to be assured that they have a fully supported solution. [Read More]

OS X Server and Fusion beta2

 Posted on August 26, 2008  |  Erik

Making some progress here. I currently use Fusion for most of my day to day desktop virtualisation, and wanted to get try out the new possibility of creating a virtual machine using Leopard Server so I can play with testing out modifying themes and stuff like that on the wiki and blog servers. But there are a few little hidden gotchas in doing this. The first one is that when you use a disk image to install (my preferred method since it’s generally faster and I can’t stand carting around a binder full of DVDs) you will run into a problem. [Read More]