September 29, 2009

6 ways to stay sane while working from home

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/09/27/6-ways-to-stay-sane-while-working-from-home/ Good advice from Baron
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

MySQL processlist phrase book

http://mituzas.lt/2009/09/27/mysql-processlist-phrase-book/ that is surprisingly awesome
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

September 28, 2009

My ongoing Kafka-esque nightmare of dealing with Palm and their App Catalog submission process.

http://jwz.livejournal.com/1096401.html wow, amazing plam fail
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 PM

September 25, 2009

Mapping UNIX pipe descriptors to stdin and stdout in C

http://unixwiz.net/techtips/remap-pipe-fds.html useful stuff that I'd have screwed up myself if I'd not read this first
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

More performance improvements in the InnoDB plugin

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=143396425932 the InnoDB plugin 1.0.4 is starting to look really good
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

Be nice to the query cache

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=143487095932 Jesus, the variance here is a little alarming.
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

Setting up a new remote git repository

http://toolmantim.com/articles/setting_up_a_new_remote_git_repository wow, I've been looking for this for a while. turns out that it's trivial
Posted by jzawodn at 07:46 AM

September 24, 2009

Fun with the InnoDB plugin

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=139679655932 "There are too many steps that must be done before the plugin can be used. Hopefully the changes described here make it into official MySQL to remove these steps."
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

Book review: Search User Interfaces

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2009/09/book-review-search-user-interfaces.html ooh, I know Marti and now I need to read her book.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

Redis Perl Client Reponsitory

http://svn.rot13.org/index.cgi/Redis get your svn client fired up and grab the latest
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

Which adaptive should we use?

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/09/15/which-adaptive-should-we-use/ How to make InnoDB flush more reasonably
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

Statistics of InnoDB tables and indexes available in xtrabackup

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/09/14/statistics-of-innodb-tables-and-indexes-available-in-xtrabackup/ KICK ASS. Period.
Posted by jzawodn at 07:00 AM

September 22, 2009

The mysterious Storage Engine Independent Test Suite

http://pbxt.blogspot.com/2009/09/mysterious-storage-engine-independent.html this would be amazingly useful in the MySQL ecosystem
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

September 21, 2009

Awesomely BAD engagement photos

http://www.guidespot.com/guides/engagement_photo_funny_wedding hahahaha
Posted by jzawodn at 06:23 PM

xmonad keybindings reference

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Image:Xmbindings.png this is a handy little reference for key bindings in xmonad
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

Getting Tiled with XMonad | overstimulate

http://overstimulate.com/articles/why-xmonad this config is EXACTLY what I was looking for.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:46 PM

September 18, 2009

Bloody Nipples

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dorkmaster/galleries/72157622268037051/ Wow, I remember that episode of The Office... heh
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 PM

Laptop, External Monitor, and xrandr to the Rescue

http://pycage.blogspot.com/2008/03/laptop-external-monitor-and-xrandr-to.html interesting notes on xrandr that may fix my laptop problem w/external monitor being the wrong resolution by default
Posted by jzawodn at 02:46 PM

September 17, 2009

Case-Mate iPhone 3G / 3GS recession case

http://www.case-mate.com/iPhone-3G-Cases/Case-Mate-iPhone-3G--3GS-recession-case.asp how amusing
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

September 16, 2009

How to Build a Popularity Algorithm You can be Proud of

http://blog.linkibol.com/post/How-to-Build-a-Popularity-Algorithm-You-can-be-Proud-of.aspx I should read this in more detail later.
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

September 14, 2009

Zucchini Muffins

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2009/09/sunday-brunch-zucchini-muffins-baking-breakfast-recipe.html mmm... this sounds like something I should try to make
Posted by jzawodn at 11:23 AM

How To Recover Your Lost Software Serial Numbers

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/use-licensecrawler-to-recover-your-lost-software-serial-numbers/ LicenseCrawler looks like a handy little tool!
Posted by jzawodn at 10:46 AM

BitlBee: an IRC gateway to other chat networks

http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html interesting idea... treat everything like IRC
Posted by jzawodn at 09:46 AM

September 12, 2009

Using mutt with gmail

http://www.scottro.net/qnd/qnd-gmail.html for me, it's msmtp + mutt + fetchmail + procmail = yay
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

September 10, 2009

SSD disks... Bah!

http://karlssonondatabases.blogspot.com/2009/09/ssd-disks-bah.html I sort of agree but they're really not a bad stopgap
Posted by jzawodn at 07:23 AM

September 06, 2009

Gmail Backups with fetchmail on OS X

http://hasseg.org/blog/?p=161 this worked with trivial modification on Ubuntu as wel
Posted by jzawodn at 09:23 AM

September 05, 2009

I don’t feel safe with Wordpress, hackers broke in and took things

http://scobleizer.com/2009/09/05/i-dont-feel-safe-with-wordpress-hackers-broke-in-and-took-things/ "Yes, I didn’t have a backup. I should learn to do backups (we’re doing them now)." FAIL
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 PM

ReBit: Time Machine-like backup for Windows

http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/good/rebit-backup.html I wonder if this is more sane than SyncBack SE that I've been using for a few years on Windows...
Posted by jzawodn at 08:46 PM

September 01, 2009

PassMark DiskCheckup - SMART hard drive monitoring utility

http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm free smart monitoring for windows
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 PM

Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage

http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/ that totally kicks ass... needs ZFS though. :-)
Posted by jzawodn at 10:23 PM