I'm moving

so, I had intended to start putting up more posts; close to daily. That has not been happening. I hope to have something soon!

s3 price change

So, Amazon charges $0.10 for a gig of upload, but they charge $0.01 for 1,000 put commands. Jungle disk allows the OS to write to s3 like it's a regular drive. Both windows and mac OS write an empty file before writing a new file. This is an empty file still counts as a put.

To get to a point behind all this, the new data transfer rate dropped $0.10 per a gig, that gets you 10,000 put statements (per gig) before you reach the break even cost of uploading on the old plan and the new plan. Because of all the redundant put statements on my mac, my amazon bill is higher if I get 2,000 files per gig (using Jungle disk). In other words, my average file size is over 524 KB

If you were to use S3 browser, then you won't have this problem, and so your filesize limit would be 174KB instead.

jungle disk is final

Jungledisk is out of beta, everyone with a copy needs to pay for it now. There was not a large feature upgrade, but there license is very good. When you buy a copy, you can install it on as many computers/devices as you want as long as it's all tied to the same s3 account. This would be a great deal for a comany; one $20 purchase for encrypted off-site file storage; cheap, and reliable storage to boot.

I am such a tool of there's....

openid in phpbb

I don't know why I didn't see this earlier; phpbb has had an openID plugin for a long time now. If you want to try it out, verisign labs... they offer free openID accounts; and if you can't trust Verisign, who can you trust?

let everyone know this is out there! I have not heard many problems with this system yet. It sure would be nice if I never had to register for another site ever again!

Unlocked iPhone

While some are making interpations about Apple's lack of action with the news that the iPhone has been unlocked, I would like to point out the one reason Apple would care about the phone being unlocked. Apple wanted a lot of control over the device; partial Distribution rights, tech support, the right to update the phones... Little things like that. If the phone was opened to all carriers, then control (used for QA here it seems) would be lost; the phone could be sold without a data plan preventing automatic updates; Owners may not think about going to apple for support

We will have to see what Apple says once the hack is in the general public :-)