Archive - May 10, 2008

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I seem to be among the lucky ones that have not had a overheating problem with my MacBook Air - but if I had this problem the following may look like a good solution :

Extremely slim cooling pad with high-efficiency for MacBook Air and MacBooks.

Moshi has announced the launch of the Zefyr 13” cooling pad, which is touted to be world’s slimmest active MacBook cooler. Tailor-made for the MacBook Air (in particular), it's extremely compact and yet efficient in keeping the MacBooks cool under demanding conditions.

[From News: Moshi Announces Zefyr 13" Active MacBook Cooler - LaptopLogic.com]

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This seems to be a interesting applicance - a pure MySQL server.

There is not enough information available at this stage to make mw want to buy one (what OS, how do you back up, how do you scale??) - but still a interesting development

Kickfire Database ApplianceData warehousing solutions have long struggled with the trade offs between performance, ease-of-use and economics. Today, to achieve high performance, ease of use and economics must be compromised; to build a solution at low cost, performance, ongoing ease of use and flexibility must be compromised.
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The previous blog posting (Flying in to Oslo) makes use of the excellent Lightbox 2 module to overlay a slideshow of images on to the page itself.

Lightbox is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

[From Lightbox 2]

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Pics from the plane
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