Linux vs PC vs Mac

ROTFLMAO is the only appropriate comment here :)

Inside CNET Labs: Yet another way to get Windows on your Mac | Crave : The gadget blog

Inside CNET Labs: Yet another way to get Windows on your Mac | Crave : The gadget blog: "VMware claims that Fusion supports more than 60 operating systems--both 32- and 64-bit--with dual-core processor support. While some users will benefit from being able to run Novell Netware or Linux as virtual machines on their Intel Macs, the largest user-base will mostly consist of those looking to run Windows Vista or Windows XP."

Anyone that knows me, knows that I'm a big mac basher. Not because i think that the mac suck, I don't... but more because I feel like the mac platform is much more geared at a novice computer user that doesn't understand complicated things like FTP, Copy and Paste and god forbid, installing a driver.

That combined with software that is purposely limiting (Why can I only upload a picture from iPhoto to a .mac account and not to an FTP site of my own for example?) to ensure that the consumer never deviates from the Mac platform, makes me less than eager to go buy their latest offerings.

That could change however if I could run an APP like VMware and run OSX along side of Ubuntu and maybe XP (I wouldn't touch vista for another year or so). Maybe I will take another look at the mac, god knows all the 'real ruby geeks' have one... maybe I should too.... ya, let's see how bogged down they run with 4 OS's running as virtual machines.

DreamHost Private Servers

DreamHost Private Servers: "DreamHost PS is our new invite-only premium shared hosting service, available only as an add-on to a current DreamHost hosting plan. DreamHost PS uses Linux-VServer to give you your own 'virtual machine', thereby protecting your CPU and RAM from all other users on your physical machine."

This is a good idea from Dreamhost. I'd all but given up on using them for hosting any of our Ruby on Rials projects because they simply weren't reliable enough for a commercial site, even a small one without a lot of traffic would suffer.

I would think that this sort of set up would isolate a lot of that, and as usual with DreamHost the price is good.

If you do decide to give it a try, you'll need to have a Dreamhost account. If you don't have one already, use this link to get a good cheap hosting account - you'll be throwing a few bucks our way which goes straight to supporting our opensource project... Thank you.

Once you have a dreamhost account, look in the control panel under "Private Server" and you can enable it there.

iMedia Connection: Google's Killer App

iMedia Connection: Google's Killer App: "Death by Google
Google has killed the web analytics software industry with the release of the new version of Google Analytics. The new version was released just under two months ago and is simply a quantum leap above any other analytics product on the plane"

I have to agree, it really is their hidden killer app. The amount of data that you can glean from properly installed analytics code is truly phenomenal. Where they came from, what they were searching, where you lost them.

There is some interesting screen recording technology that they have yet to incorporate, but really that's the only place left were there is some space in the analytics department. They've pretty much got everything else beat.

We use analytics pretty extensively on our network of sites and it will be added as a module to XLsuite before too long, allowing you to easily integrate your analytics account (not that it's hard to do it manually right now).

Google VS. Everyone

This article is a really good outline of the various "big markets" on the web and where Google fits in the general webosphere.

A good read check it out: