Archive: January, 2009

Moving on from HD DVD

Posted on January 4, 2009 by Shaun Ewing No Comments
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After being my usual stubborn self, I have finally decided to embrace Blu Ray as my preferred high definition format and move on from HD DVD. To get started, I’ve purchased the following Blu Ray movies over the past few weeks: 21 Blood Diamond Casino Royale Die Hard 1 Die Hard 2 Die Hard with [...]

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Australia’s first IPv6 enabled VPSs are here

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Shaun Ewing No Comments
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Nearly one month ago AussieHQ subsidiary Jumba launched Virtual Private Servers. When you typically think of Virtual Private Servers, you might think of a standard rack mount server running a hypervisor like Xen with 8-16GB of RAM and some large SATA drives. While these solutions might sound fine, wait until there is a hardware failure [...]

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Using Rackspace Cloud Files with your own domain

Posted on January 3, 2009 by Shaun Ewing 1 Comment
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Overview At the time of writing back in 2009, Rackspace Cloud (Mosso) Files was their newest service offering and is a cloud based file storage system that also allows you to distribute content via the Limelight (now Akamai) CDN. One of the biggest drawbacks so far is the fact that you are not able to [...]

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