http://www.niquille.com regular niche market thoughts Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:28:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since I had problems with rsync 2.6.3 not properly excluding directories with whitespaces I figured out a dirty workaround. In order to really simplify the process of selecting the folders which should be rsynced I created a directory only containing symbolic links. In this directory I issued the ln -s ... http://www.niquille.com/2008/06/18/followup-amazon-s3-tripple-encrypted-true-rsync-backup/ See a workaround for whitespaces in directory names here. As a followup for my local rsync script compilation I now present a small python script which takes care of rsyncing your folders to your S3 buckets and taking care of local encryption. I am really fond of the idea of "storing ... http://www.niquille.com/2008/06/15/amazon-s3-tripple-encrypted-true-rsync-backup/ I had already posted my Macbook rev1 wireless issue quite a while back in April. Unfortunately I didn't really figure out any superb solution which would instantly fix the problem, which actually just had appeared out of nowhere.. OS X 10.5.3 didn't solve it out of the box either. I ... http://www.niquille.com/2008/06/13/wireless-still-broken-on-1053/ I have been wondering how long it would take: The guys over at django seem to have a clear idea of what the version 1.0 final has to include. Things such as full newforms support, changes to the file backend (to support Amazon S3) and improvements of signaling (the dispatcher) ... http://www.niquille.com/2008/04/27/django-10/ Yesterday I held a paper regarding my previous discussion paper on emerging internet technologies. I focused on virtualization techniques which make cloud computing feasible. This slide shows a simplified illustration of a cloud platform setup. As you can see virtualization software actually allows a certain service to run on multiple physical ... http://www.niquille.com/2008/04/27/scalability-as-key-growth-factor/ As I already stated in my previous paper, cloud computing appears to be a highly disruptive technology, which is gaining momentum just now. Forrester Research points out that the technology is not yet ready for enterprise usage though for the next two to three years. By design current products are immature for ... http://www.niquille.com/2008/04/26/new-buzzword-cloud-computing/ I'm sort of live-blogging (never done this before..) from this lecture at the University of St.Gallen. The two professors (Urs Gasser & John Palfrey) will discuss current topics concerning law and economics on todays internet. some excerpts .. Urs:  "The internet is like a cake. You have the biscuit (physical layer), chocolate (logical) ... http://www.niquille.com/2008/04/25/law-economics-of-cyberspace/ „Computing is turning into a utility, and once again the economic equations that determine the way we work and live are being rewritten.“ Today's internet age is both vibrant and old-fashioned in economical terms. Every day new internet start ups sky rocket. Others disappear as fast as they built upon ... http://www.niquille.com/2008/04/20/the-business-impact-of-emerging-internet-technologies/ Did you know that pressing the Alt key while clicking on the wireless tab icon gives you extended information about the network you are currently connected to (such as channel, signal strength and Mac ID)? BTW: Wireless ist still heavily broken and Apple didn't seed 10.5.3 final yet.. That's why I ... http://www.niquille.com/2008/04/15/wireless-stumbler-trick-on-1052/ update (15.4.08): My iPhone seems to be excessively using EDGE and busting my data limit (which get's really nasty at 0.1 Swiss Francs per 10KB). I didn't figure out why. I figure it could only be the email client looping some attachment. I saw my iPhone using up all its battery ... http://www.niquille.com/2008/04/06/iphone-battery-drain-on-114/