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Rackspace Cloud – Windows Beta

Zippy Kid — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:11:43 +0000

So did you all hear the big news? Rackspace Cloud now has Windows Cloud Server running both 2003 and 2008 in 32-bit and 64-bit modes! Okay it’s still in Beta but they’ve got it! Now as you all know,…

Virus posing as Anti-Virus? What do I do?!

Zippy Kid — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:02:51 +0000

We are all very familiar with the concept of a virus. In a nutshell, it is a piece of “bad software” written to cause problems on your system (if you want a better description, check this Wikipedia article). As…

Rackspace Cloud – Test 2

Zippy Kid — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:46:43 +0000

Hello, it’s been a while since we’ve posted anything but no worries, I have been experimenting with the Rackspace Cloud. As mentioned in our previous post, I started using it to host websites and applications. It is considerably more…

Open Source and the Cloud

Zippy Kid — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:51:19 +0000

So Cloud Computing has become a buzzword in most information technology circles. Pick up any tech magazine or read any tech blog and you’ll see a few articles about the cloud computing. We now have cloud service providers such as…

RackSpace Cloud – Test 1

Zippy Kid — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:52:23 +0000

If you refer to one of our previous posts, we talked about wanting to get involved in the cloud computing. After much deliberation we chose RackSpaceCloud. The pricing was great and let’s face it, I like to support…

The WebOS and Business IT

Zippy Kid — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:32:14 +0000

I was reading through ZDNet and saw an article about The WebOS and how it is already beginning to affect Business IT. In businesses all over the globe, we are seeing changes to the traditional data infrastructure. If we…

Amazon Private Cloud

Zippy Kid — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 04:23:55 +0000

Information Week reports that Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has unveiled their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud service. It is essentially going to be an isolated portion of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud that is only accessibly via virtual private…

An AI of pure evil?

Zippy Kid — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:19:14 +0000

So I was reading through Scientific American when I came across an interesting artcile. In Troy, NY Selmer Bringsjord is trying to discover the root of all evil (which I always thought was the love of money). He…

Microsoft Acknowledge Linux as a Threat?

Zippy Kid — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 17:15:29 +0000

A few days ago I was on Slashdot and came across an interesting article about our friends at Microsoft. Microsoft has listed Red Hat, Inc. and Canonical, Inc. as competitors to their Windows client application while they performed their…

Torchlight Cloud Experimentation

Zippy Kid — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:56:19 +0000

Hello everyone. I was looking up some web applications. Most of the stuff I was looking at was of course open source, php-based software. I am looking at invoicing, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Human Resource Management…