julesallen

It's satire imitating real life 2013: https://coffitivity.com/

Add '.nyud.net' on the end of the URL. So, like this:

http://joelrunyon.com.nyud.net/two3/an-unexpected-ass-kickin...

It's the wickedly useful Coral CDN in action:

http://coralcdn.org/

Great for reading sites that are slashdott..., um, fireball..., erm, 'News'd. Doesn't always work, doesn't work for POSTing anything, but this time we got lucky.

I'm only < 24 hours into it but Ting.com beta program phone showed up today. I get 500Mb per month for US$13 which is more than the ~250Mb I usually use. I'll get a credit back on the next month's bill which is, well, how it should be.

The bands are 100Mb = $3pm; 500Mb = $13; 1,000Mb = $24; 2,000Mb = $42; and 3,000Mb = $60.

I use zero voice minutes and zero text messages per month so my bill will be $19 (data + $6 per 'line') plus the usual mandatory taxes. This will save me about $60pm on my iPhone bill where I had no choice but to have voice.

They're a Sprint MVNO, there's no contract, and I have high hopes as the customer service has been outstanding to date. The Web-based management GUI is a bit spartan but that'll evolve over time I suppose. I only wish they were GSM-based instead of CDMA.

Before I read the article I assumed this was all about the hung EC2 instances in the Great Virginia Datacenter Outage.

I need to get out of the house more.

Answer in haste on a small screen and realize mmaro's question isn't on the top level. Bugger!

So, no is the answer and thanks for graciously pointing my mistake out and allowing me to correct. Truecrypt really is a great transport for smallish disks on an untrusted network. Whole disks on Dropbox probably = insane.

Yes, for when you want portable virtual disks to put in places like DropBox. We don't trust drop box for sensitive/important stuff and we trust Truecrypt more.

Great for shuffling stuff to your accountant actually! And heck of a lot faster and cheaper than FedEx.

You just saved me another few hours of figuring out wtf was going on. Thank you.

Apple, seriously? Is this what pro's can expect from the App Store? It's half assed at best.

App Engine has been simply excellent. I've got a $5 limit on possible daily charges and mostly stacked in the bandwidth areas.

Really like the admin interface, the sensible Python, and 'appcfg.py upload .' is a lot like waiting for C to compile!

Charges so far have been $0.00 and, admittedly, traffic has been low. But should a /.otting come along I might have to shell out a couple of bucks (bfd!).

A pricing heatmap in 10% bands would be pretty good I think. Houses next to each other tend to be more or less the same value with a few edge case scenarios -- the farm as noted in the other reply to this.

What about App Engine or S3 if you're just serving static files?

I think you'll like Janus:

https://github.com/carlhuda/janus

Your goodies plus a whole lot more.

Almost content free. What's this doing on the front page?

At least this is inadvertently entertaining.

The worst major airline so-called 'self service' area is Virgin Atlantic. You can check in, that's it. Stunningly poor last Christmas when LHR was shut down and phone lines were clogged.