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Abandoning Apple
I’ve been a happy iPhone and iPad user for a couple of years, but the time has come to move on. It’s not that I dislike Apple stuff, I just don’t think it’s the best for my needs, and certainly isn’t worth the premium. That said, I’m not very convinced by iOS7, or OS X Mavericks […]
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Tags: android, Galaxy, iOS, iPad, iphone, Nexus 7, S4 mini, Samsung, Swype
I’ve been a big fan of Koss Spark Plug earbuds for many years. They’re cheap, comfortable and sound great. I got my first set after some very expensive Sony noise cancelling earbuds failed on my (just after the warranty ran out), and it was obvious straight away that a good snug fit was an excellent […]
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Tags: android, google voice, headphones, headset, iphone, iSpark, Koss, microphone, skype
Review – Samsung S4 Mini Duos
TL;DR The S4 mini is a fantastic piece of kit. The size is right, the screen is vibrant, the battery lasts, it works fine as a phone. The *only* thing I might ask for as an improvement would be a higher resolution screen. Dual SIM is very nice too. Background 2 years is too long […]
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Tags: android, dual SIM, Duos, mini, review, s4, Samsung
An adventure with Chef
I hear a lot of people talking about automated deployment with Chef (and its competitor Puppet, which I haven’t had the chance to try yet), so I thought I’d spend some time seeing how it would fit in with our image management platform Server3. Don’t stray from the PATH To get familiar with Chef, I dove straight into the […]
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Tags: aws, Chef, development, DevOps, image automation, image management, Inception, Puppet, Server3
More memory, better performance
Since I was so happy with the HP 650 business laptop that I got for my wife, my father in law decided to get one too. I was surprised to find that the Windows Experience Index (WEI) was so much slower than I’d seen on my wife’s machine: It’s no surprise that the memory benchmark […]
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Tags: bandwidth, benchmark, Core, DIMM, experience index, GPU, HD3000, i3, Intel, performance, RAM, SODIMM, WEI, Windows
HP 650 Business Laptop – review
Since the screen failed on my wife’s Lenovo s10e netbook (and I turned it into a TV attached media player) she’s been using my old s10e, but that’s been on its last legs for a while too. The time had come for something new, with a full sized keyboard and screen. I’ve been looking around […]
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Tags: 650, business, EFI, HP, laptop, review, ssd, Start8, UEFI, WEI
Review – Lenovo X230
Shortly after starting my new job it became apparent that I’d need a new laptop. As most of the other CohesiveFT team use Macs (and iWork) I was very tempted by the 11″ Macbook Air, but its limited memory and need for dongles to connect to things like VGA and network dissuaded me. I may come to […]
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Tags: lenovo, review, ssd, X230
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Tags: architecture, consumerisation, consumerization, container, framework, html5, mobile, native, strategy, web
SDN – flow control and APIs
This is a cross post from the CohesiveFT corp blog. A friend and former colleague recently asked me, “on the SDN front – anything you’d recommend reading in terms of positioning, and compare/contrast of quantum vs. openflow vs. onePK vs…….?”. This was my reply: OK… based on my limited understanding (I don’t consider myself anything […]
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Tags: API, iOS, network, onePK, OpenFlow, OpenStack, protocol, Quantum, SDN
My New Job
I’ve started a new job as CTO for CohesiveFT. It’s a great company with a great team and some great products and services. As I’ve known many of the people since before the company was founded this post could be subtitled ‘a brief history of CohesiveFT’. The people and pre-history Alexis Richardson was the instigator. […]
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Tags: aws, deployment, factory, IBM. cloud, image, industrial design, management, multicast, network, open source, OpenStack, SDN, security, topology, virtual appliance, virtual machine, vpn
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