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
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07:46 AM
MySQL processlist phrase book
http://mituzas.lt/2009/09/27/mysql-processlist-phrase-book/
that is surprisingly awesome
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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."
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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.
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07:00 AM
Redis Perl Client Reponsitory
http://svn.rot13.org/index.cgi/Redis
get your svn client fired up and grab the latest
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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
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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.
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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
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08:00 AM
September 21, 2009
Awesomely BAD engagement photos
http://www.guidespot.com/guides/engagement_photo_funny_wedding
hahahaha
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06:23 PM
xmonad keybindings reference
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Image:Xmbindings.png
this is a handy little reference for key bindings in xmonad
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05:46 PM
Getting Tiled with XMonad | overstimulate
http://overstimulate.com/articles/why-xmonad
this config is EXACTLY what I was looking for.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
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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
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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. :-)
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10:23 PM