Jeremy Zawodny's blog - recent comments

ZXT comments on "Lazy Shopping Carts"

2009-10-11T14:58:44-08:00

I thought this article is about online shopping cart like Magento :)

Anyways, Roger is right. Make people deposit a dollar to get a cart and get back that dollar when they return it. Otherwise they lose their dollar.

ZXT comments on "Watching Yahoo's Transformation"

2009-09-22T07:06:47-08:00

Remember they acquired Geocities for record breaking amount back in the 90's and they didn't do anyting with it and fail to capitalize with millions of Geocities users. They just shut it down last month because its costing them too much to maintain it.

ZXT comments on "Google Chrome is the New Firefox, and Firefox the new IE"

2009-08-03T06:44:10-08:00

After using Chrome for a couple of months I went back to Firefox as my main browser. Chrome is fast alright but it lacks even the basic features and add ons.

ZXT comments on "Firefox vs. Google Chrome Revisited"

2009-08-10T06:33:39-08:00

Yes the new Firefox is a lot faster. Though I still prefer even the old Firefox than Chrome.

comments on "The universe is trying to tell me something..."

2003-04-08T22:59:46-08:00

I am in the same boat. I have lost my business with what turned out to be an untrustworthy business partner. I poured my heart, soul and time into this business it was my passion. I tried everything to save it but every single thing I tried came to a dead end. Then my husband decides this is the time he wants a divorce. In this same month period I discovered my husband has a gambling problem and gambled his entire months pay away in one night. Additionally, I found he owes many people money due to borrowing for gambling funds. We have two children. All of this a once is more than I can process at once. I feel like the universe or God is trying to tell me something. How do I hear exactly what it is so I can make the right decisions for our future?

Essay Writing comments on "Auto-closing MT Comments on Old Blog Entries"

2003-12-25T06:44:19-08:00

Thanks for useful tips and guidelines.

PK comments on "Should I Learn Python or Ruby next?"

2006-07-31T10:29:27-08:00

Ruby and Python are both great languages. I would prefer Ruby over Python for one thing I hate in Python - "Indentation detects programming constructs". A space here and there interpreter starts cribbing. If you are coming from Perl background I definitely suggest Ruby over Python.

Interactive Programming Books make learning new programming language very easy. Readers can execute or edit code snippets straight out of the book. You can try free interactive programming books on both Ruby and Python at http://roorky.com. IPUBReader comes with free bundled programming books on both Ruby and Python.

Thanks
-- PK

Tower Defence Games comments on "Desktop Tower Defense Considered Harmful"

2007-03-23T10:53:09-08:00

More tower defence games to play online here:
http://www.xtowerdefence.com

finance expert comments on "The New MySQL Landscape"

2008-12-08T07:02:50-08:00

All the time I tried to understand what is MySQL. Found you blog now and I very hope that I learn it carefully.
Thank you for your work.

Tahoe Native comments on "SUVs Keeping Tahoe Blue"

2005-01-21T10:58:15-08:00

Live and let live! You enjoy your life and let others enjoy theirs! I have a lifted SUV because I drive on unmaintained/unplowed roads at Tahoe in the winter and need it. If it wasn't for my kids, dogs and all the stuff I need to carry around I would have something smaller like a Subaru, but that doesn't work with my family's lifestyle!Don't pass judgement on others since you have no idea what their life is about! How about if you go with what Tahoe is about and smile, wave and say hello to people and stop being rude city people who have something to prove!

pudge comments on "Recent Sphinx Updates"

2009-10-30T07:26:38-08:00

We've been having a lot of sphinx performance issues in sphinx 0.99-rc1. I think searchd's forking is a big reason why. I am going to give the latest a try and see what happens.

Is there somewhere a document outlining how forking works? What the searchd child does on startup, when it starts up, how long it lives ... ?

Kevin comments on "Are Dolphins Smarter Than Costco Employees?"

2006-09-18T17:20:43-08:00

Ok, I've worked at Costco for quite some time so I can help with this discussion.

For one, the reason the receipts are checked is because of 2 things... 1)There are no "activated security devices" in the items to prevent inconvenience of people setting off the door alarms, etc. and 2) It's easy for someone to steal something between the register and the door, especially if they have someone with them. Honestly, the reason we check the receipts is to make sure that we don't OVER charge you or cause a loss for our products which causes trouble not only during inventory but also with our merchant partners that accommodate those low prices people enjoy. As for the particular employee you encountered, she handled the process all wrong. I've worked at the door several times and with large full baskets, you are only supposed to scan for the easily missed or over-charged items like alcohol, small products, and things hidden on the bottom of the basket. Her over-thinking wasn't entirely in vane however, because if she had been wrong, it would've gotten her and the cashier "at fault" in unnecessary trouble. Besides, marking the receipt helps prevent people from coming through again with the same items, as I'm sure you know.

I also agree with whoever said the receipt codes are hard to decipher. I've looked over plenty of receipts and for example, Cinnamon Toast Crunch with Fiber, rings up as CTC WFBR. When you are trying to hurry and scan a large receipt, it's not the easiest thing to spot.

Jinal Jhaveri comments on "Speaking at San Francisco MySQL Meetup"

2009-11-16T07:00:44-08:00

Slides please..

Imran Chaudhry comments on "How to Copy a Filesystem and Preserve Hard Links in Linux"

2008-02-28T08:40:50-08:00

Zhenlei Cai and others are correct about the cause of rsync with a large dataset eating memory. This is what happened to me when rsyncing two datasets with hardlinks, one of ~30G the other 130G. I left it running overnight rsyncing from HDD to USB2 external HDD and the machine gradually ate into swap until it became unresponsive. It looks like a good chunk of the data got transferred though (I deduced this by du -chs of the original data vs that on the USB HDD). The rsync settings I use are: time rsync -avh --stats --hard-links

Looks like I have to gradually do a bunch of broken rsyncs until the data is transferred. If this failed, I think cp -av --preserve=all would be the next best thing.

One other thing is that in my case the data is going onto an encrypted partition by using cryptmount.

Tery comments on "Free or Cheap on-line Fax Service?"

2007-09-06T12:37:37-08:00

Packettel are cheap, but not reliable. I use to be their client. Currently I am with UnityFax and FaxOrama. Both are good - no complains so far. Pricewise they are very good compare to the big ones like MyFax and eFax.