August 30, 2008

How to avoid having to reactivate Windows XP after fresh install

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/how-to-reactivate-windows/ that's interesting
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

August 28, 2008

tmpfs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMPFS "tmpfs is a common name for a temporary file storage facility on many Unix-like operating systems. It is intended to appear as a mounted file system, but one which uses virtual memory instead of a persistent storage device."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

Linux Io Scheduler - Waikato Linux Users Group

http://www.wlug.org.nz/LinuxIoScheduler I like being able to try new schedulers on the fly...
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

TechBlog: Got a pirated copy of XP? Expect to be nagged

http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2008/08/got_a_pirated_copy_of_xp_expect_to_be_nagged.html oh, gee... I can't wait!!!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

August 27, 2008

Multiple column index vs multiple indexes

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/08/22/multiple-column-index-vs-multiple-indexes/ some interesting data points
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

Announcing OpenSQL Camp 2008

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/08/26/announcing-opensql-camp-2008/ this could be interesting...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

One deer, one owl in flight, six or eight rabbits, and 17 miles.

http://dylan.tweney.com/2008/08/24/one-deer-one-owl-in-flight-six-or-eight-rabbits-and-17-miles/ Dylan talks about how he motivated himself to run a little more...
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

How much memory does MySQL Enterprise Monitor’s agent use?

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2008/08/26/how-much-memory-does-mysql-enterprise-monitors-agent-use/ way more than one might expect!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

August 26, 2008

Redhat perl. What a tragedy.

http://blog.vipul.net/2008/08/24/redhat-perl-what-a-tragedy/ yikes... this is really bad
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

August 24, 2008

Valgrind Home

http://valgrind.org/ "There are Valgrind tools that can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, and profile your programs in detail."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

Amazon’s Elastic Block Store explained « RightScale Blog

http://blog.rightscale.com/2008/08/20/amazon-ebs-explained/ good info in Amaozn EBS
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

12 New Rules of Working You Should Embrace Today

http://zenhabits.net/2008/08/12-new-rules-of-working-you-should-embrace-today/ there's a lot of truth in here
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

BuildBot - Drizzle Wiki

http://drizzle.wikia.com/wiki/BuildBot "Contributing a buildbot slave will help drizzle developers test across a various number of configurations."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Learning Python

http://troutgirl.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/learning-python/ "I think this focus on “cool rather than useful features of Python” generally comes out of what I see as their biggest weakness as a community: lack of focus, exacerbated by small size."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

FixMyPrinter.com

http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/ Do-It-Yourself InkJet and Laser Printer Repair (HP, Apple, Epson, and More)
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

August 22, 2008

How To Launch Software

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/howtolaunch I wish more people understood this!
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Simon Willison joins Guardian News & Media

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/aug/22/guardianmediagroup.digitalmedia congrats Simon!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

August 21, 2008

Parkinson's Law of Triviality

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality "also known as the bicycle shed example, and by the expression colour of the bikeshed"
Posted by jzawodn at 04:23 PM

The Mattress Industry is One Big Scam

http://boulter.com/blog/2008/08/20/the-mattress-industry-is-one-big-scam/ I had no idea it was that bad. Luckily we bought our last one off craigslist.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Memcachedb

http://memcachedb.org/ "A distributed key-value storage system designed for persistent" and it's powered by BerkeleyDB under the hood. Nice.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

Amazon EBS - Elastic Block Store has launched

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2008/08/amazon_ebs_elastic_block_store.html very nice
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 AM

August 20, 2008

Going toastal

http://www.edn.com/archives/1997/090197/18col.htm "With a computer, our customers can load the bread the night before, program a finish time, and get a perfect slice of toast when they awaken..."
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

What Makes for a Good Blog?

http://www.43folders.com/2008/08/19/good-blogs a good list of attributes
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

August 19, 2008

Traffic Android - Automatic Social Media Marketing & Link Building

http://www.trafficandroid.com/ here's how to spam google without spamming google. yeah, right...
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

All your base are belong to us

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us ah, the wikipedia has the full text
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Worklog :: WL#344 >> Time-delayed Replication

http://forge.mysql.com/worklog/task.php?id=344 apparently I suggested this back in 2001... who remembers that kind of stuff? :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Everything You Need to Know About USB 3.0, Plus First Spliced Cable Photos

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/everything_you_need_know_about_usb_30_plus_first_spliced_cable_photos and now I know
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

Most Wine Should Be Sold in Boxes

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2008/08/18/wine-boxes not a bad idea, really
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

August 14, 2008

Understanding GNU Emacs and Tabs

http://student.northpark.edu/pemente/emacs_tabs.htm most of this I knew, but I never read it all in once place
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

August 13, 2008

Pictured: The horrific moment Olympic weightlifter turns his elbow back to front

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1044258/Pictured-The-horrific-moment-Olympic-weightlifter-turns-elbow-front.html FAIL!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Please specify your reason for absence...

http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/p/9602/176403.aspx How about "Alcohol Abuse", "Abortion", "Rectal Problems" hahahahaha!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

August 12, 2008

Business Requirements are Bullshit

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/08/business-requirements-are-bullshit.html "I learned a lot about the Fine Art of Building Shit that Nobody Wants back at Geoworks..."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

perlstyle - Perl style guide

http://www.perl.com/doc/manual/html/pod/perlstyle.html "there are some general guidelines that will make your programs easier to read, understand, and maintain"
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

The Perltidy Home Page

http://perltidy.sourceforge.net/ "Perltidy is a Perl script which indents and reformats Perl scripts to make them easier to read. If you write Perl scripts, or spend much time reading them, you will probably find it useful. "
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

August 11, 2008

Hadoop: When grownups do open source

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/11/hadoop_dziuba/ "Yes, Twitter, the nonprofit web service known widely for its downtime, dropped its disaster-producing shitpile on the world. Why?" Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

craigslist seeks system administrator

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/sad/792345871.html seriously, we're hiring...
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

Iconic stone arch collapses in southern Utah park - Yahoo! News

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080810/ap_on_re_us/arch_collapses "One of the largest and most photographed arches in Arches National Park has collapsed." DOH!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

Scientists closer to developing invisibility cloak

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080811/ap_on_sc/sci_invisibility_cloak "Scientists say they are a step closer to developing materials that could render people and objects invisible." Let the fun begin!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

An Illustration of McCain and Obama's Tax Plans

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hQFy9C-miC4/SJ748zAiMaI/AAAAAAAAEGc/rmBtaeREaaE/s1600-h/baracktax.gif If accurate, this is pretty interesting...
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

http://www.nist.gov/dads/ I had no idea this existed... Our tax dollars are work, huh?
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

August 10, 2008

Food Storage: Refrigerator and Freezer

http://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheets/HGIC3522.htm I've often wondered how long some foods are supposed to last...
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

LIRC - Linux Infrared Remote Control

http://www.lirc.org/ "LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals of many (but not all) commonly used remote controls. "
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Capacity Planning, Architecture, Scaling, Response time, Throughput

http://mysqldba.blogspot.com/2008/08/capacity-planning-archetecture-scaling.html I always forget some of the extra iostats arguments
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

Hacking Business Models

http://zak.greant.com/hacking-business-models/ somehow I missed this a while back... it's a good set of principles and ideas around running an open source company
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

August 09, 2008

On Fighting the Web Itself (a great quote)

http://blog.unto.net/open/on-fighting-the-web-itself/ "But fighting the web is like holding back the ocean; it will route around you or it will wear you down, but will never go away, and it will never tire or give up. Yet in spite of the futility of fighting the web, Silverlight is being positioned in opposition to the web, not in support of it."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

Linux Disk Scheduler Benchmarking

http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2008/08/linux-disk-scheduler-benchmarking.html interesting... I need to read more about this just 'cause I'm curious
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

Clever method of near duplicate detection

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2008/08/clever-method-of-near-duplicate.html very interesting. could be useful when folks use gibberish to try to bust spam filters and duplicate detection code.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM

today’s craigslist complaint

http://trainedmonkey.com/2008/8/6/today_s_craigslist_complaint#preview hey, that one bugs me too! uh oh... that means I'll have to do something about it
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Short hands-on video with the Lenovo IdeaPad S9

http://www.umpcportal.com/2008/08/short-hands-on-video-with-the-lenovo-ideapad-s9/ WANT!!! (well, the S10 at least)
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

Couch for Sale

http://blog.craigslist.org/2008/08/couch-for-sale/ it's a kitteh couch!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 PM

August 08, 2008

State Supreme Court rejects noncompete clauses

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/07/BAUH12716R.DTL yay for california workers...
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Tacobell Taco Town Parody Commercial

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-442520862512743500 that is insanely funny
Posted by jzawodn at 03:46 PM

An Illustrated Guide to the Kaminsky DNS Vulnerability

http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/iguide-kaminsky-dns-vuln.html a very detailed and well written explanation of what all the recent DNS talk was about
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

August 06, 2008

htop - an interactive process-viewer for Linux

http://htop.sourceforge.net/ it's got color and everything
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 PM

I like cake! - Cakemail, Ninjas on Fire, and other Anecdotes

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ILikeCakeCakemailNinjasOnFireAndOtherAnecdotes.aspx heh
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

August 03, 2008

Beyond REST? Building data services with XMPP

http://www.slideshare.net/kellan/beyond-rest should we do something similar for craigslist postings or searches?
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

HOWTO: Seamless MS Windows in Edgy with VirtualBox and Beryl!

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=433359 some usfeul bits in here
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 PM

Trapped in the Middle

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120856310119627911.html?mod=hps_us_pageone "The incomes of most Americans have stalled. "
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

thanks craig

http://trainedmonkey.com/2008/7/31/thanks_craig "but i am really just posting to complain about how flaky and frustrating the craigslist posting system is"
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Windows Vista Works

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/good/windows-vista-works.html "So after a month with Vista, I like it just fine."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

J Crew Customer FAIL

http://jcrew-customer.blogspot.com/ Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

The Long Tail: The time/money formula of free

http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2008/07/the-timemoney-f.html "At some point in your life, you will wake up and discover that you have more money than time. And you will then realize that you should start doing things differently..."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM