I needed to use an Apple Time Capsule (actually backing up our home Macs) to share some files. The issue here is that Time Machine (OSX’s backup program) might use up all the space on the disk: there is no way to tell Time Machine to stop at a certain quota. Workarounds are known like [...]

I had some time to finally test JoliCloud, the Netbook OS that promises seamless integration between end-user and… Guess who? The Cloud. JoliCloud is a decent attempt to void the space between desktop computing and online applications and it does it pretty efficiently despite some quirks I am going to mention later. JoliCloud tries hard [...]

See Mark Anderson’s predictions on 2010… The CEO of Strategic News Service is oracular again (curious how prescience occurs just before quarter’s end) and is here to enlighten us on our near future. It might be me but I am not impressed: 2010 seems to become a very boring year, all trends he describes are [...]

There is an interesting article on TechCrunch, an unfiltered (presumably) insight of a London’s VC expert that claims European start-ups are not working hard enough as their Silicon Valley’s counterparts. The writer adds that in US is easier to find talented workforce than in the EU; he explains this fact  as the consequence of our [...]

So, I found this e-mail on Friday saying that “@botchagalupe is in town, feel like a beer together?”. Botchagalupe aka John Willis is one of the best known Cloud evangelists and a legend in System Management; he is actually “involved” with Canonical and spreading the word on agility and life-cycle management on Cloud. You can [...]

Warning: this material is outdated, a set of empirical tests was under works but never saw the light It happens, once that one does something wrong without knowing where he is making a mistake.. This is what happened yesterday when I used mysqlslap test bench on an Amazon RDS machine. The problem is that mysqlslap [...]

Gosh I LOVE Edinburgh: it is a no-nonsense place, great whiskey and CloudCamps! Have a look at my stream: The big news of this ClouCamp: wifey attended!!! I claim the definition of #cloudwife!! (twitter mention), after the event she started posing me questions on the Cloud and why it does matter that much, well I [...]

VMware VCB works by creating snapshots of VMs in quiescing state. If, while attempting to backup a VM, the following error shows up: ..  ‘vcbMounter’ 3076465472 error] Error: Backup snapshot already exists. ..  ‘vcbMounter’ 3076465472 error] An error occurred, cleaning up… There are probably some hanging snapshots of the VM that need to go. It [...]