We recently posted replays of some of our shows at DeepRockDrive . Currently there are replays of Divide The Day, Chiodos, and Ari Hest. Check it out here at the Vault.

Next we will be putting up replays of the William Fitzsimmons, Steel Train, Secondhand Serenade, and Alive in Wild Paint shows.

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10,000 online viewers watched and interacted with Disturbed on May 29th and were rewarded with a stellar performance. I was in the venue monitoring the show and they were awesome.

Live at DeepRockDrive: DISTURBED from DeepRockDrive on Vimeo.

Read more about it here

Here are some pictures I had a chance to take during the show, when I had a second to breathe.

Buy the new DISTURBED album Indestructible

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DeepRockDrive isn’t just a webcast, it is much more than that. It blends interactive elements in real time with high quality audio and video and allows you the viewer to interact with the performer like never before.

Observe

DeepRockDrive’s interactive live concerts from DeepRockDrive on Vimeo.

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I will probably be one of those fathers that tell my kids tall tales of when I was a youth and things were so hard and difficult.

Imagine using the Internet when there was no good search engine like Google. I couldn’t sleep tonight and woke up thinking about search engines and how one of my preferred ways to search the internet used to be using Inktomi. Search engine technology has came a long way since the mid 1990′s. I remember using Altavista, which until just now I hadn’t typed into a browser for many years. Thats all there used to be, it ran on a few servers inside Digitals network somewhere and index a somewhat large part of the internet, or what was believed to be a large part of the internet.

A bit later some guys at Berkeley decided to write Inktomi which was a distributed application, unlike Altavista. I remember using the 2 side by side and you could actually sit and wait quite some time for Altavista to return you a query while Inktomi would return a query much quicker. A few years later (probably late 1999) in an office at Avenue A Media a co-worker wanted to show me this new search engine, something called Google.

When I was a kid we used to have to wait for our search results.

I forgot all about WebCrawler

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I have been spending a lot of time lately building the technical infrastructure to make shows like this happen.

At 7PM on May 29th 2008, Disturbed will be performing live at DeepRockDrive in an interactive streaming concert.

Tickets are limited so get one while you can, Disturbed tickets

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In building out a new data center I have been involved in doing some security assessment and have learned about SYN cookies. Most firewalls and some load balancers will protect your network from SYN floods using them. Very interesting stuff. If you don’t know much about SYN Cookies and how they can protect your network I would suggest doing some further investigation and reading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYN_cookies

http://cr.yp.to/syncookies.html

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