Tov Are Jacobsen

Hosting with eApps   Journal 2010-08-08 Gravitation twoards slower response times.   At least meassuring via Site24x7 the performance has gravitated twoard a slower response. Amazon updates their numbers slower and still lists at 0.306 seconds, so it will be interesting to to see in the next couple of months ... Read more

Dell seems to have the greatest discounts at the end of a quarter. Dell's fiscal year ends on the Friday nearest to January 31st. Assuming Dell has met it's margin requirements, end of quarter is a good time for them to boost revenue. So for purchasing in the first quarter ... Read more

28.10.2008  I finally got around to syncing my calendar. Since I use my own domain with GMail, i found https://www.goosync.com/ to be the best service around. It works perfectly, but I have decided to use the free calendar only version a few months before going for the commercial version, which ... Read more

I just came across a post on news.com from may, noting that unicode is beating other charsets like ASCII on the web.  http://news.cnet.com/underexposed/?categoryId=1089 Unicode is quite old in computer terms and was published in 1991, but still most operating systems default to their own litte variation on 8-bit ASCII, so ... Read more

21.01.2005 Soundex in the Io Language Soundex [16.04.03] (updated 20.01.05) This is my first stab at doing something in the Io Language www.iolanguage.com which is a small footprint scripting language. The soundex algorithm is used in database lookup applications and genalogy research. It finds certain classes of similar-sounding names. Name ... Read more