• http_load for Request Replay

    Posted on August 23, 2006

    The presentation that Rasmus gave at OSCON this year seems to have kicked some ass. I missed the conf, but got a bunch of interesting info from the slides. In particular I hadn’t used http_load before. Part of what I’ve been doing at AdMob is taking a look at performance... [Read More]

  • Linux Lappy

    Posted on August 18, 2006

    It’s just about New Laptop Time. Not quite, but almost. Being a Linux only user it’s always an adventure trying to figure out what hardware to get. Hardware support has definitely gotten better under Linux, but figuring out what actually lives inside the system you’re thinking about picking up at... [Read More]

  • ZeroOne San Jose Art Festival

    Posted on August 7, 2006

    This week (August 7th to 13th 2006) is the ZeroOne Arts Festival in San Jose. There was a great presentation at Future Salon by one of the ZeroOne staff members where he tossed out a dizzying number of art projects that blend in technology in tantalizing ways. And if the... [Read More]

  • A Diet of Monkey Chow

    Posted on June 6, 2006

    This is pure genius! I’m so disappointed I didn’t think of it first. A guy trying to live on a diet of pelletized monkey food. FANTASTIC! If it works and he doesn’t die I’m definitely doing it. If he does die… I give myself about a 50-50 chance of still... [Read More]

  • A Quarter of a Million Spam Messages

    Posted on June 5, 2006

    I’m at almost a quarter of a million spam messages (249,744 to be precise, by the time I post this it should be more than 250 thousand) caught by Akismet so far. I turned Akismet on in January of this year. That’s more than 50,000 spam messages a month. According... [Read More]

  • The Web 2.0 Cease and Desist and Self Healing Systems

    Posted on May 25, 2006

    I need to post a pointer to the story about CMP sending a conference a C&D; letter on behalf of O’Reilly. I’m sure Tim has nothing to do with it, and I’m sure it’ll go away without much fuss in the end, probably just being throwoff of the corporate machine... [Read More]

  • George Bush Jr More Evil Than Cthulhu

    Posted on April 21, 2006

    Wow, folks really hate this George Bush Jr. guy. You would think he roamed around in the streets killing puppies and kicking children or something. I check out the stats for all my Ning apps on a daily basis. Cause I’m vain, no sense in trying to justify it with... [Read More]

  • More Jerry Taylor

    Posted on April 3, 2006

    Some additional info about the politician who incorrectly threatened CentOS with FBI action. Gotta love this: [Read More]

  • High Availability NFS

    Posted on April 3, 2006

    I’ve tried out the high availability NFS solution detailed here and run into a few issues. It does provide a great way to get a higher degree of availability for one of the most problematic bits of infrastructure, so I don’t mean to crap on the idea as a whole.... [Read More]

  • More SMS.ac Turd Flinging

    Posted on March 29, 2006

    These SMS.ac folks just don’t know when to quit. I was chatting with Russ yesterday and this morning, and he was saying that the SMS.ac people are sending him takedown letters for non-libelous content on his blog because he’s ranked pretty high in the Google search results. I told him... [Read More]