Brave Tech World

March 30, 2007

FRI 30 MAR 2007

Upgrade on Sampa By Marcelo

 

    In case you are a Sampa user, but not a Sampa Blog reader... We are a doing an upgrade tomorrow.

 

    This is to switch over our DNS to the new code. Cross your fingers.

FRI 30 MAR 2007

Outlook 2007 is quite popular By Marcelo

 

    On the beginning of this month, I asked on this blog if I should upgrade to Office 2007. I was mostly worried about Outlook being slow.

 

    Well, that blog post has generated a lot of buzz (on my blog-scale-buzz-meter).

 

    Not only we had a few good comments, but I got a bunch of email and not less than 185 times someone searched for "outlook 2007 slow" and found that entry on Google.

 

    A lot of people are having problems with Outlook 2007. Microsoft should quickly release some fixes to the perf issue.

 

    Here is my help to Microsoft...

 

    I run a very unusual setup because I have two Exchange accounts. One is my personal account (calbucci.com) and the other is Sampa's (sampa.com). Since Outlook doesn't allow me to have 2 Exchange accounts on the same profile I have two profiles, and I switch back and forth between them all day long (I know, very annoying).

 

    When I'm at the office, and I run the Sampa profile, Outlook is quite fast and effective (except when I'm opening messages with images on it, either linked or embedded). When I open my Calbucci profile things don't go so well. The difference? On the Calbucci profile, the connection is always RPC over HTTP. On Sampa it is not. That should give some clue to some perf tester at what to look for. Good luck.

 

FRI 30 MAR 2007

Technorati rank By Marcelo

 

    Today my Technorati rank is 108,629, which is pretty amazing in my opinion.

 

    If Technorati is tracking 60,000,000 blogs, it means I have more inbound links than 59,891,371 blogs. What's that worth? Nada.

FRI 30 MAR 2007

The cost of adding a server By Marcelo

 

    You'd think that if takes about 1 hour per week to maintain 1 server, it would take 2 hours per week to maintain 2 servers. Right? Wrong.

 

    With 1 server, I had a simple batch script that would upgrade the server whenever there was a new build. Now with two servers, I have to do staged deployment (one server first, then the other server), have to make sure that configuration settings are replicated across servers, have to add more scripts to get even simple tasks done, etc .

 

    So, going from 1 server to 2 servers is more than twice of the work. The good thing is that once you are prepared to handle multiple servers (in an automated fassion), adding more and more servers become very easy. So, the third server will add just a nominal amount of work for me and running 10 servers is not that different from running 40 servers.

FRI 30 MAR 2007

A new Seattle blog for Startups, Entrepreneurs and Investors By Marcelo

 

    Do we need another one? Maybe not, but today I'm launching Seattle 2.0 as a site/blog with resources from startups, entrepreneurs, investors and geeks talking about startups, entrepreneurs, investors and geeks. So it's all in the family.

 

    My first post talks why and what.

 

    The second post is a new list of Seattle Companies ordered by Alexa Rank.

 

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