Tag: cix

  • See if this doesn't terrify you

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have always wanted to fly. And I have no fear of heights – hence I have climbed the CIX mast numerous times (with appropriate safety gear!). However, just watching these guys in wingsuits scares the hell out of me! I don’t think I’d ever raise the nerve to do that. http://www.liveleak.com/player.swf?autostart=false&token=e29_1192781178 via Chris Abraham

  • Embeddable Google maps

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    Tom Raftery
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    According to this post on the Google Maps blog site, it is now possible to embed Google Maps on your own site in the same way you can embed YouTube videos. The image below is of the industrial park where we are building the CIX data centre http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.903566,-8.512151&spn=0.002022,0.005611&t=k&z=18&om=1&output=embed&s=AARTsJqzARj-Z8VnW5pkPMLMmZbqrJcYpwView Larger Map

  • Video interviewed by Loic

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    Tom Raftery
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    Loic Le Meur, France’s best known blogger and organiser of the Le Web conference interviewed me recently by Skype Video. Previously I had panned Loic very publicly for the way he handled the Le Web conference last year. Loic starts this video by asking how he can do better this year. Soliciting people’s opinions is…

  • Using I.T. to add green power to the network

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    Tom Raftery
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    The problem with wind power is that its production is variable and difficult to predict. From the perspective of a power supply company, such a supplier is unreliable and likely to de-stabilise the power network. For instance, at 2am in Ireland, when the demand for electricity is near its lowest, if a 40mph wind is…

  • Views from the CIX mast

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    We are erecting a 24 metre mast outside our CIX data centre in Cork. I was curious to know what the visibility would be like for our mast’s customers (we will be renting out space on the mast) so yesterday when we had a cherry picker onsite I had the driver lift me 10 metres…

  • Just arrived in Copenhagen

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have just arrived in Copenhagen for Reboot 9.0. I’m giving a talk tomorrow at 12:20 on “Reducing Information Technology’s ever-increasing carbon footprint”. This is in the context of the work we are doing building a hyper energy-efficient data centre in CIX. There’s a meetup organised for tonight which I will be going along to.…

  • Lot of travel coming up!

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    Tom Raftery
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    In the next few weeks I am flying to Bilbao where I have been selected to be on the prestigious jury forStartup 2.0 – an international competition judging startup companies. Then I am off to Copenhagen for Reboot 2.0 where my suggestion for a talk about the energy efficiencies in the CIX data centre has…

  • BarCamp Dublin was great

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    Tom Raftery
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    I attended BarCamp Dublin at the weekend and it was a fantastic day – kudos to the organisers (Paul, Elly, Joe, Paul, and Eoghan). I was waylaid in the corridors several times so I didn’t get to as many talks as I would have liked. I did get to good friend and TCD law lecturer…