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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Showroom Progress
Every day, a little more progress...
The Showroom runs completely and successfully over fiber from our office rack upstairs. Some of the Vinyl Lettering has made it on to the outdoor sign and windows. The pamphlets are ready for customers. On a tech note,we also added another host with 16 Logical cores, 8 gigabit ports, and 72GB to our VMware Cluster. Thanks for running to the DataCenter today Patrick. Go CytexOne!Posted via email from CytexOne
Friday, November 20, 2009
CytexOne & Linden 78 Project
About Linden 78, 230 West 78th StreetThis mid-block apartment building at 230 West 78th Street has a very substantial cantilever over the low-rise buildings just to its west along Broadway. As a result, the beige-brick building has a surprising amount of "light and air."
Some of the 35 apartments at the 20-story residential condominium building at 230 West 78th Street, which is known as Linden 78, have fireplaces with bluestone surrounds and hearths.
The building, which is a development of Urban Residential Properties of which Christopher Martorella is the chief executive officer and sole principal, has 3 full-floor penthouses, ground floor refrigerated storage for groceries, ground floor bicycle storage rooms, a children's playroom, a garden with a water wall feature, and a landscaped roof deck.
Handel & Associates is the architectural firm for the project.
Urban Residential's other New York projects include 255 Hudson Street and 505 Greenwich Street, both designed by Handel & Associates, and NoLiTa Place, and the Sycamore, both designed by H. Thomas O'Hara, SoHo 25 on Houston Street, designed by H. Thomas O'Hara and Beyer Blinder Belle.
Linden 78, which is on the south side of 78th Street between Amsterdam and Broadway, has setbacks at the 13th, 15th and 18th floors. Its cantilever starts at the sixth floor on its west side.
The building's masonry facades give way partially to glass on the 15th through the 17th floors and fully to glass on the 18th through the 20th floors.
An offering plan filed with the New York State Attorney General's office April 27, 2006 with a total offering price of $109,525,000. The building opened in 2009.
Apartments will have side-by-side Miele washers and dryers and will be prewired with the option off a Cytexone automation system that offers control of heating/cooling and audio/visual systems, lighting and window shades. Apartments will also have walk-in linen and entry closets, one of which will be large enough for "pram parking."
Kitchens have been crafted by Florense, the green-certified, Brazilian-based cabinetry firm and have Viking and Miele appliances and many will have windowed breakfast areas.
Master baths have Luce Di Luna marble countertops with double sinks, Mezzanine Mink glass wall tiles, Lagos Azul limestone floors.
Ceiling heights range from 9 to 11 feet and the lobby floor has a Linden leaf mosaic design.
There is excellent public transportation in the vicinity and Zabar's is only a couple of blocks to the north on Broadway.
via cityrealty.com
Just stumbled across this article and figured I'd post it!
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Sunday, November 15, 2009
Using Readability with Mouse Gestures in Firefox - a definite time-saver
I love this, I have firegestures set up to display using readability with a quick gesture, it’s quickly becoming my favorite gesture! I find it to be pretty much essential. It’s simple to do:
1. Add a keyword to your readability bookmark, I use ‘rab’.
2. Go into your firegestures options and click on ‘Add Script.
3. Name the script ‘Readability’, in the Script field enter:
loadURI(getShortcutOrURI(’rab’,{}));
Attach it to a gesture, I use ‘D’.
That said, every now and then I run into a page that isn’t rendered correctly, such as this one:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-03-10-sudan_N.htm?csp=34
The first paragraph isn’t on the readabilityized version.
Thanks!
via blog.arc90.com
I love this comment... I always go searching for it, and sometimes I can't even remember where it is at all... So, I'm posting this here for easy recollection
I use the mouse gesture "UP" to make any page I'm reading "readable".... quick and easy!
Posted via web from aslezak
Using Readability with Mouse Gestures in Firefox - a definite time-saver
I love this, I have firegestures set up to display using readability with a quick gesture, it’s quickly becoming my favorite gesture! I find it to be pretty much essential. It’s simple to do:
1. Add a keyword to your readability bookmark, I use ‘rab’.
2. Go into your firegestures options and click on ‘Add Script.
3. Name the script ‘Readability’, in the Script field enter:
loadURI(getShortcutOrURI(’rab’,{}));
Attach it to a gesture, I use ‘D’.
That said, every now and then I run into a page that isn’t rendered correctly, such as this one:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-03-10-sudan_N.htm?csp=34
The first paragraph isn’t on the readabilityized version.
Thanks!
via blog.arc90.com
I love this comment... I always go searching for it, and sometimes I can't even remember where it is at all... So, I'm posting this here for easy recollection
I use the mouse gesture "UP" to make any page I'm reading "readable".... quick and easy!
Posted via web from aslezak
Thursday, November 12, 2009
CytexOne wins Control4 MVP 4 Years in a row!
Thanks to the folks at Control4 for recognizing us! We appreciate it :)
Posted via email from CytexOne
CytexOne wins Control4 MVP 4 Years in a row!
Thanks to the folks at Control4 for recognizing us! We appreciate it :)
Posted via email from CytexOne
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Stunnel - Universal SSL Wrapper
Stunnel -- Universal SSL Wrapper
Stunnel is a program that allows you to encrypt arbitrary TCP connections inside SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) available on both Unix and Windows. Stunnel can allow you to secure non-SSL aware daemons and protocols (like POP, IMAP, LDAP, etc) by having Stunnel provide the encryption, requiring no changes to the daemon's code.The Stunnel source code is not a complete product -- you still require a functioning SSL library such as OpenSSL or SSLeay in order to compile stunnel. This means that stunnel can support whatever (and only) that which your SSL library can, without making any changes in the Stunnel code.
The Stunnel source code is available under the GNU General Public License, meaning it is free to use in both commercial and non commercial applications as you see fit, as long as you provide source code (and any modifications) with the software. Your compiled Stunnel binary is 'restricted' by whatever license your chosen SSL library is under, however both OpenSSL and SSLeay are open source and similarly liberal in their licensing.
via stunnel.org
I need to try this... TCP connections wrapped in SSL...
Saturday, August 8, 2009
The Ultimate Lock Picker Hacks Pentagon, Beats Corporate Security for Fun and Profit
via wired.com
genius - i love this guy....old article...same story of how one man sticks it where the sun don't shine. a fine example of full disclosure.
Cracking WPA with video cards, and pyrit
via i-hacked.com
more pyrit goodness - i haven't seen a lot of write-ups re: pyrit pass by, and here's a pretty nice one.... definitely makes you want to go out and buy some video cards (and a good mother board).
TestDisk - CGSecurity - data recovery software
TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.
TestDisk can
- Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
- Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
- Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
- Fix FAT tables
- Rebuild NTFS boot sector
- Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
- Fix MFT using MFT mirror
- Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock
- Undelete files from FAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
- Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions.
TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.
via cgsecurity.org
I've always had tremendous success with GetDataBack by http://www.runtime.org, and I just read about this... options are always good :)
TestDisk - CGSecurity - data recovery software
TestDisk is a powerful free data recovery software! It was primarily designed to help recover lost partitions and/or make non-booting disks bootable again when these symptoms are caused by faulty software, certain types of viruses or human error (such as accidentally deleting a Partition Table). Partition table recovery using TestDisk is really easy.
TestDisk can
- Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
- Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
- Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
- Fix FAT tables
- Rebuild NTFS boot sector
- Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
- Fix MFT using MFT mirror
- Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock
- Undelete files from FAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
- Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions.
TestDisk has features for both novices and experts. For those who know little or nothing about data recovery techniques, TestDisk can be used to collect detailed information about a non-booting drive which can then be sent to a tech for further analysis. Those more familiar with such procedures should find TestDisk a handy tool in performing onsite recovery.
via cgsecurity.org
I've always had tremendous success with GetDataBack by http://www.runtime.org, and I just read about this... options are always good :)
Friday, August 7, 2009
CoffeeGeek - How to Use a Press Pot
via coffeegeek.com
simple - easy... I don't know why I haven't used a press pot yet.... I guess I've always liked to make things complicated... but a small amount of perfect coffee makes perfect sense :)
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Bodegas Ateca Atteca Garnacha Old Vines 2007 | Snooth | My Wines | aslezak
Check out this website I found at snooth.com
Delicious - i would drink this again. Purchased off the 90 point scale (yes, I'm a sucker). Perhaps the effect is the placebo effect and I love the way it makes me feel... mellow, relaxed, happy... no, that isn't all wines. As for the characteristics....I'd have to say bold (from my coffee descriptions)...ripe, a bit off balance, and not off-putting (on the finish)....plums...berry-ish....dark, fruit sensations... I enjoyed this out of the bottle the day I purchased it...I didn't need a meal and I could enjoy it with a nice red meat....
Bodegas Ateca Atteca Garnacha Old Vines 2007 | Snooth | My Wines | aslezak
Check out this website I found at snooth.com
Delicious - i would drink this again. Purchased off the 90 point scale (yes, I'm a sucker). Perhaps the effect is the placebo effect and I love the way it makes me feel... mellow, relaxed, happy... no, that isn't all wines. As for the characteristics....I'd have to say bold (from my coffee descriptions)...ripe, a bit off balance, and not off-putting (on the finish)....plums...berry-ish....dark, fruit sensations... I enjoyed this out of the bottle the day I purchased it...I didn't need a meal and I could enjoy it with a nice red meat....
Saturday, August 1, 2009
How To Connect To A WPA Wifi Using Command Lines On Debian | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials
Check out this website I found at howtoforge.com
its Sunny, 81F in hoboken, time to go outside...
Sit in a park and read some more of "The Cuckoo's Egg"
just learned about these vsphere features today from the vsphere overview slide...
- supports DVFS (dynamic voltage frequency slection) and DPM (dynamic power management) via IPMI
- virtual sas & ide interfaces now supported
- enable hot add for memory / cpu (has to be enabled while machine is powered off)
- storage stack performance and scalability - the combination of the new in-guest virtualization-optimized SCSI driver, and the additional - ESX kernel-level storage stack optimizations dramatically improves storage I/O perfomance - I/O intensive applications like DB and exchange servers will now be even more primed for virtualization.
- iSCSI stack improvements have been made as well for both software and hardware. CPU overhead reductions have been significant.
- Volume Grow + Hot VMDK Extend - vDS - vNetwork Distributed Switch - Private VLANS (PVLANs), virtual distributed uplinks, network vmotion (counters, and port statistics follow VM), bi-directional traffic shaping. Obviously support for 3rd party switch a la nexus 1000V - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_VLAN
- VMXNET Generation 3 - MSI/MSI-X support, Receive Side Scaling (Windows 2008), VLAN off-loading
- from MS doc on RSS: “Today’s systems have an increasing number of CPUs. The ability of the networking protocol stack of the Windows® operating system to scale well on a multi-CPU system is restricted. This restriction is caused by the architecture of the Network Driver Interface Specification (NDIS) in Windows Server® 2003 and earlier versions, which limits receive protocol processing to a single CPU at any one time. Receive-side scaling (RSS) resolves this issue by allowing the network load from a network adapter to be distributed across multiple CPUs.” http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/network/ndis_rss.mspx
- fault tolerance
- enhanced storage vmotion now with minimized resource consumption + converstion of disk from thick to thin during session.
- vcenter servers can be inter-connected in loinked mode so you can share roles and licenses across multiple connect vcenter servers
- view multiple vcenter inventories can be seen from one vcenter client.
- host profiles can be maintained, deployed (as a golden configuration), and audited
- vApps - encapsulate multiple application VMs into a single virtual service entity. Then you can do single power operations, clone, deploy and monitor the whole application. You can export this profile as an OVF file.
- the new performance charts are totally awesome. they are like task manager opened across all VMs in front of you.
- automate guest operating system customization improvements - server 2008 and ubuntu 8.04
- for disaster recovery of a vmfs volume - a replicated volume not in the same datacenter can be mounted without writing a new signature.
- you can record and replay virtual machine execution. - vmkernel exploit protection
- many integrity checks and hardware-based protection option available.
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