Baypup Blog http://blog.baypup.com News and information about Baypup. Wed, 20 May 2009 10:07:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 How to Juice Up Firefox. http://blog.baypup.com/2009/05/20/how-to-juice-up-firefox/ http://blog.baypup.com/2009/05/20/how-to-juice-up-firefox/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 10:03:06 +0000 admin http://blog.baypup.com/2009/05/20/how-to-juice-up-firefox/ I’m sitting here on my brand new aluminum Mac iBook, and Firefox is just slow as an old dog. It is such a divine browser but ever so slow, especially with a jillion tool bars like I have.

I have a few opinions about what should be done if you really want to juice up Firefox. I am not planning to start a chip company anytime soon, so maybe someone over there at Intel or AMD or Apple will read this and make my life a little bit better.

BPU: Browser Processing Unit – Why are these chip makers and computer company need is browser acceleration hardware. They are talking about letting the OS leverage graphics chips, what we need is for this extra computing power to help the browser with its task, in a dedicated SD Ram cache for the environment .

I can even envision a browser card that is specifically designed to accelerate a specific browser (Firefox/gecko or Safari/webkit or IE/Microsoft whatever) sitting next to a video card in a pci-x slot. Then I won’t need an 8 core machine to have a snappy browser experience.

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This facility will allow us to build our infrastructure in the United States before deploying it abroad.  We were hoping to build a facility here in Kansas first, but the new Governor’s plan to embrace big cola (ad dirty old coal at that) that we have been forced to reconsider our plans to keep a large data facility in Kansas.

]]> http://blog.baypup.com/2009/05/18/containerized-data-center/feed/ 0 It IS possible to to sue Google (and win). http://blog.baypup.com/2009/05/16/it-is-possible-to-to-sue-google-and-win/ http://blog.baypup.com/2009/05/16/it-is-possible-to-to-sue-google-and-win/#comments Sun, 17 May 2009 04:52:36 +0000 admin http://blog.baypup.com/?p=117 A recent article from the Huffington Post about a guy who sued Google and won. (not that we would ever think about that….)

]]> http://blog.baypup.com/2009/05/16/it-is-possible-to-to-sue-google-and-win/feed/ 0 “Smarter” search for Google. http://blog.baypup.com/2009/05/14/smarter-search-for-google/ http://blog.baypup.com/2009/05/14/smarter-search-for-google/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 00:50:38 +0000 admin http://blog.baypup.com/?p=112 In this BBC article Google announces several new search features.  Indeed, Google seems to claim credit for inventing semantic search results! I suspect that this is a response to the semantic features in Powerset and Cuil, and also used extensivelty, though not widely deployed, by Baypup.

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]]> http://blog.baypup.com/2009/05/14/wolphram-alpha-vs-google/feed/ 0 Memory Upgrades http://blog.baypup.com/2009/05/01/memory-upgrades/ http://blog.baypup.com/2009/05/01/memory-upgrades/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 02:33:46 +0000 admin http://blog.baypup.com/2009/05/01/memory-upgrades/ Some of our servers have been getting memory and os upgrades. Because we dont have much failover built into our system yet, some of the search results have been squirrly. Apologies for any inconvenience. If you like Baypup and want to help us grow, buy some ads or even better, contact jason [at] baypup [dot] com and buy some stock.

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I thought this was interesting.

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The FBI on Tuesday defended its raids on at least two data centers in Texas, in which agents carted out equipment and disrupted service to hundreds of businesses.
Wow, another reason to have redundant infrastructure.  Who owns your data and the equipment it is on?

]]> http://blog.baypup.com/2009/04/08/fbi-defends-disruptive-raids-on-texas-data-centers/feed/ 0 Welcome to Baypup http://blog.baypup.com/2009/03/23/welcome-to-baypup/ http://blog.baypup.com/2009/03/23/welcome-to-baypup/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:29:14 +0000 admin http://blog.baypup.com/?p=5 Baypup Search Engine is one of the most advanced information gathering and extraction tools in the world. Baypup is currently a prototype.

Our web index is similar to the size Google was when they were funded. The web has grown since Google started, but this index produces VERY relevant results considering its modest size.

Baypup is looking for private investors. If you are interested in investing, please contact jason [at] baypup [dot] com.

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