PSPINC CEO Kenichi Uchikura's Blog

Did you know?

Mar

13

Left = Regular PEPSI
Right = Diet PEPSI

Did you know the Diet PEPSI logo has slimmer white part?

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Half Empty is not same as Half Full

Mar

12

What do you think?

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Great LOGO!?

Mar

12

Do you know the chain of super store called Carrefour? I did not realize their logo is a big white letter "C". Can you see it?

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Open Source ... You get what you pay for

Mar

12

You know the term Open Source. The software that is available with the source code and the free license to use it.

There are several things you need to know about Open Source software.

(1) There is no support or guarantee
(2) Better version of software is not usually free
(3) If you fix it and you are on your own
(4) If you have someone develop Web site using Open Source software, the system will not be free.

You get what you pay for. I am a fun of Open Source software. It is a great source for an individual to learn and develop Web site with. But when it comes to professional work, I rather build it myself from the scratch.

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Carbon Foot Print of Servers

Mar

11

Each server uses approximately 0.5kWh (kilo Watts per Hour). Each kWh generates 1.297 lbs of CO2 according to http://www.carbonfund.org/site/pages/carbon_calculators/category/Assumptions>http://www.carbonfund.org.

PSPINC hosts Web and Email using about 400 servers for about 37,000 companies both in the USA and Japan. We are emitting about 260lbs of CO2 every hour. If you compare that to if each 37,000 companies having their own servers, it would have been almost 48,000lbs every hour. That is more than 420,000 tons of CO2 per year. That is about 900,000 trees per year compared to 9,600 trees.

PSPINC is dedicated to using clean energy for its power source and striving very hard to reduce its carbon footprint by creating a software that require less hardware.

NOTE: Easiest ways to calculate is ... Every year a server require about 24 trees to recover its carbon foot print. WOW, that is a lot.

#Computer #Internet

Time Display Problem was Fixed

Mar

11

The time display problem that we experienced when we introduced a security upgrade was fixes.

The system should be displaying the correct time.

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BLOGURU HAS TIME STAMPING PROBLEM

Mar

10

BLOGURU is currently suffering from the time stamping program on the comments. When you post a comment to any of the Blog post, the time stamped on the reply is not a correct time. We will be fixing this issue soon.

Thank you.

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Nice View of NE 8th in Bellevue, WA

Mar

10

i took this picture from the 21st floor of Bank of America Building in Bellevue (Next to Hyatt Bellevue). Nice view. You can see all the new constructions recently completed. I heard most of them are empty.

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HQ Datacenter Update

Mar

10

Yesterday, the wall of the fueling station for generators came up. By the end of this week or early next week, VECA will come and install the electronic control panels. Once they are done, we should put fuel in generators and start testing. Just generators and installation alone costed over $80,000.

#Computer #Internet

Renewing my license tab

Mar

9

I received my car license renewal notice yesterday in the mail. It is going to expire in 3 weeks. I thought they used to give me at least two months notice.

I went to check the emission and passed. Then I went to License place in Crossroad near my office to pay the License fee. It had $5 for Park Improvement (Option) and $4 for processing fee. I do understand $4 processing fee. Why do I have to pay that? Shouldn't that part of the Licensing fee? Where can I go so that I don't have to pay this fee?

I guess I am being picky.

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