April 30, 2009

Bash one liner to randomize lines in file

http://hivearchive.com/2007/10/18/bash-one-liner-to-randomize-lines-in-file/ neat trick!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Romance Chair

http://burlington.craigslist.org/fuo/1147543739.html eal nice romance chair made for 'good times'
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

I caught my guitarist screwing my wife so I am selling his guitar amp!

http://kansascity.craigslist.org/msg/1145834596.html heh
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Flickr Hit Hard by Yahoo Layoffs

http://gigaom.com/2009/04/29/flickr-hit-hard-by-yahoo-layoffs/ FAIL
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Video: Kitteh Vs Fan

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2009/04/29/funny-pictures-video-kitteh-fan/ hahahahaha
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

April 29, 2009

MySQL UC 2007: Innodb Performance Optimization

http://www.scribd.com/doc/2085411/MySQL-UC-2007-Innodb-Performance-Optimization an older but still useful set of slides from Peter and Heikki
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

piss on a banker! [pic]

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/04/26/world/26icelandB.ca0.ready.html Photographs of bankers who left Iceland after the financial crisis have a new use in the restroom of a bar in Reykjavik, the capital.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

InnoDB on IO bound workloads

http://mysqlha.blogspot.com/2009/04/innodb-on-io-bound-workloads.html more good benchmarks from Mark
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Notes from Percona performance conference

http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog/notes-from-percona-performance-conference/1622 Alex pulled together a good collection of links
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

Ubuntu brings advanced Screen features to the masses

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/04/ubuntu-brings-advanced-screen-features-to-the-masses.ars cool... screen rocks
Posted by jzawodn at 08:23 AM

April 28, 2009

Craigslist Server Contracts HPV

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/craigslist_server_contracts_hpv?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter oh noes! the word is out!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

Newegg.com - LG W3000H-Bn Black 30" 5ms Widescreen LCD Monitor w/ HDCP Support 370 cd/m2 3000:1 w/ 4 USB ports

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824005115 WANT
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

Drizzle Modularity

http://www.oddments.org/?p=56 Eric's diagram says a lot, actually
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

YOU LITTLE BASTARD [pic]

http://imgur.com/27K39.jpg YOU HAVE KILLED US ALL.
Posted by jzawodn at 11:46 AM

First Orgy After Brian's Death Very Solemn

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/first_orgy_after_brians_death_very holy crap that's funny!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Life of a dirty pageInnoDB disk IO

http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dhngrkwh_7fn256bdj the only talk that Mark gave and I did not see last week
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

Mosso Pricing

http://www.mosso.com/cloudservers_pricing.jsp you can get some surprisingly cheap cloud CPUs via Rackspace/Mosso
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

April 27, 2009

MySQLConf 09: Don MacAskill, "The SmugMug Tale" [video]

http://mysqlconf.blip.tv/file/2037101/ excellent overview and thoughts on what's important in the MySQL world (at least to me)
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

MySQLConference Video Archive

http://mysqlconf.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc yay! now I can catch everything I missed!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

How To: Properly Backup a VirtualBox Machine (.VDI)

http://www.derekhildreth.com/blog/how-to-properly-backup-a-virtualbox-machine-vdi/ yay! I just needed to do this myself
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

The hacking business model - Askmonty.org

http://askmonty.org/wiki/index.php/The_hacking_business_model this is a good summary of how Monty likes to run a company... It's very sound, IMHO
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

The Great Open Cloud Shootout [video]

http://mysqlconf.blip.tv/file/2026246/ our keynote panel from the MySQL Conf 2009
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

Linux Don’t Need No Stinkin’ ZFS: BTRFS Intro & Benchmarks | Linux Magazine

http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7308/ interesting overview and bechmarks of BTRFS
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

April 26, 2009

IP Location tools :: IP Location Tools

http://iplocationtools.com/index.php handy GeoIP-like stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

April 25, 2009

jspdf - javascript to make PDF

http://code.google.com/p/jspdf/ what will they think of next?
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

HDMI Cable, Home Theater Accessories, HDMI Products, Cables, Adapters, Video/Audio Switch, Networking, USB, Firewire, Printer Toner, and more!

http://www.monoprice.com/home/index.asp good prices on cables and stuff
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

capttofu: DBD::drizzle 0.100 released!

http://capttofu.livejournal.com/18683.html yay! good job, Patrick and Clint!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

High Performance Web Sites :: Even Faster Web Sites

http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/04/23/even-faster-web-sites/ Congrats on the new book, Steve!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

More on Drizzle Protocol Plugin

http://www.oddments.org/?p=54 a short and simple high-level view
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Talking MySQL to Sphinx

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/04/19/talking-mysql-to-sphinx/ "The true gain from Sphinx however comes from its ability to scale almost linearly using multiple CPU cores and multiple nodes in the system."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

SSD versus Enterprise SATA and SAS disks

http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2009/04/18/SSDVersusEnterpriseSATAAndSASDisks.aspx putting dollars in the metrics is very important
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

Monty says: To be (free) or not to be (free)

http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/04/to-be-free-or-not-to-be-free.html "I am prepared to hire or find a good home (either at Monty Program Ab or close to it) for all core MySQL personnel."
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

April 23, 2009

Yahoo Quietly Pulls The Plug On Geocities

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/23/yahoo-quietly-pulls-the-plug-on-geocities/?awesm=tcrn.ch_bQ&utm_medium=awesm-twitter&utm_content=techcrunch-autopost&utm_campaign=techcrunch&utm_source=twitter.com FAIL
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

Why Oracle Won't Kill MySQL

http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/20/mysql-marten-mickos-technology-enterprise-tech-mysql.html Marten Mikos (former MySQL CEO) on Oracle
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

April 20, 2009

Readings show Four Corners marker off by 2.5 miles

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/20/national/a124751D82.DTL&tsp=1 geography FAIL
Posted by jzawodn at 01:23 PM

Firediff

http://www.incaseofstairs.com/firediff/ Firediff is a Firebug extension that tracks changes to a pages DOM and CSS.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

April 17, 2009

Make your site faster and cheaper to operate in one easy step

http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/04/make-your-site-faster-and-cheaper-to.html yes, compress your shit. this is not 1995 anymore
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

April 16, 2009

Disturbing Strokes [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr-e3qGQ884 that is awesome
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

cat buttz on craigslist forum

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/forums/?ID=121937471 heh
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

airsports.tv

http://airsports.tv/ "the leading video site for air sports"
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

Two great tastes that go together

http://www.shooter.net/index.php/Item/hootersandinnout/ heh
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

April 15, 2009

blekko's ambient cluster health visualization

http://www.skrenta.com/2009/04/blekkos_ambient_cluster_health.html interesting techniques to prevent your ops data
Posted by jzawodn at 02:23 PM

Broken dual-head in Ubuntu and how to fix it

http://hristov.com/oblog/blog/post/2009/04/09/broken-dual-head-in-ubuntu-and-how-to-fix-it/ this explained (and fixed!) the weird fail I had with my Ubuntu laptop and some display combos
Posted by jzawodn at 12:46 PM

How to write to a Perl variable as if it’s a filehandle

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/04/12/how-to-write-to-a-perl-variable-as-if-its-a-filehandle/ I had forgotten you could do this and ended up needing it today... good timing!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

MapReduce using Amazon's cluster and differential pricing

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2009/04/mapreduce-using-amazons-cluster-and.html Greg makes some good points and the discussion is interesting too
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 PM

April 09, 2009

Damien Katz: Moving To California

http://damienkatz.net/2009/04/moving_to_california.html lots of good advice in the comments
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

XtraDB storage engine release 1.0.3-4

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/04/08/xtradb-storage-engine-release-4/ woohoo! looking forward to running it soon
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Must Have [Aviation] Apps [for iPhone]

http://aviationmentor.blogspot.com/2009/04/must-have-apps.html a nice list... if I ever get an iPhone, I'll check these out
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

How to Craft Your Personal Business Model

http://www.freelanceswitch.com/freelancing-essentials/how-to-craft-your-personal-business-model/ good advice from Gina
Posted by jzawodn at 01:46 PM

April 08, 2009

The Moonwalk Superstar

http://cdn.holytaco.com/www/sites/default/files/photo/65/7708/Moonwalk-Superstar_500x500.jpg heh
Posted by jzawodn at 04:46 PM

"lost my job" - Twitter Search

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%22lost+my+job%22 via nelson
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

April 07, 2009

George Carlin - How To Handle A Heckler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it9kpZHXhxI George knew how to shut someone up!
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

Thoughts from the bottom of a ditch after veering off the road while reading email on my iPhone while riding my road bike near a farm

http://a.wholelottanothing.org/2009/04/thoughts-from-the-bottom-of-a-ditch-after-veering-off-the-road-while-reading-email-on-my-iphone-whil.html damn, that's funny. but, yeah, ouch!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

April 06, 2009

One Classified Ad Web Site To Rule Them All

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2009/04/01/one-classified-ad-web-site-to-rule-them-all/ "Craigslist isn’t just crushing the newspaper industry and crowding out other classified sites. It’s also taking an increasing slice of total U.S Internet traffic"
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

Mapreduce Bash Script

http://blog.last.fm/2009/04/06/mapreduce-bash-script that is kind of awesome
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

CSS IS AWESOME Mug from Zazzle.com

http://www.zazzle.com/css_is_awesome_mug-168716435071981928 Ha! that's funny...
Posted by jzawodn at 02:00 PM

Commodore 64 Hardware Laptop

http://benheck.com/04-05-2009/commodore-64-original-hardware-laptop that is awesome on several levels!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Message Queue Evaluation Notes

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Message_Queue_Evaluation_Notes interesting stuff from the second life crew
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 AM

FML: I put my AIM status on my Current iTunes song. It also does it for videos I don't know. I've...

http://www.fmylife.com/miscellaneous/798927 excellent!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:23 AM

April 05, 2009

Dubai: How not to build a city

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/613885 "Still, it's hard not to be impressed by what has been accomplished here. The extent of this ruin-in-waiting is truly mind-boggling."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Al3x, Meet Ted

http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/04/05/Al3x-meet-Ted "The Internet helps via PageRank and friends, but independent thinking is required too: make your own finding as to who’s worth listening to. It seems a low price to pay for the privilege of being the best-informed generation in history."
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

No, this is not antigravitation

http://www.ufo-science.com/uk/downloads/video/russian_helicopter.html awesome freaky video
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

April 03, 2009

Ubuntu Netbook Remix | Canonical

http://www.canonical.com/projects/ubuntu/unr works well on my Samsung NC10
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

on url shorteners

http://joshua.schachter.org/2009/04/on-url-shorteners.html they are fail
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Speakers: Velocity 2009

http://en.oreilly.com/velocity2009/public/schedule/speakers looks like a good lineup!
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Six Pack Abs

http://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2008/8/25/633552839995400997-sixpackyouredoingitwrong.jpg You're Doing it Wrong!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

April 02, 2009

OCZ Neutrino 10" DIY Netbook

http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/diy_notebooks/ocz_neutrino_10-diy_netbook if I didn't already have an NC10...
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

For Some, Voice Mail Is Losing Its Allure

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/fashion/02voicemail.html?partner=rss&emc=rss yes, voicemail sucks
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 AM

April 01, 2009

Intel Xeon 5500 Release

http://lonesysadmin.net/2009/03/31/intel-xeon-5500-release/ drool
Posted by jzawodn at 03:23 PM

Conficker Worm Strike Reports Start Rolling In

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2009/04/conficker_worm_strikes_militar.html?wprss=securityfix oh noes!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM