December 2010
3 posts
Issues trying to increase EBS root disk size
I was running out of space on my EC2-hosted system and Eric Hammond’s instructions for increasing the size of the root disk offered a fantastically simple solution: just run 2 commands from the EC2 tools and I’ll be all set. Except it didn’t work for me. A little googling made it clear that this worked for others, but it was a total mystery what was different in my case. After...
RIM is in trouble - A case study in customer... →
An analysis of RIM’s predicament, making the case that the Blackberry market share started shifting over 2 years ago, but this was masked by good top-line results, largely from users upgrading their phones to new models introduced in 2009. This is the classic death spiral where the company is on the wrong side of a market shift, and he proposes two remedies: 1) stabilize your existing market...
Awesome big wave video →