Ramblings Of A Web Guy
Brian Moon
So, I checked my email this morning and found this jewel: I might use Phorum if you brain deads knew how to upload or download your files via FTP. Your documentation has no order to it, its all a mess...
My coworker Rob is building a little project at home. After some bad experience with cheap black box servers, he got some used Dell's. Now, he has done this. Heh, is pretty cool....
I listen to the MacBreak Weekly podcast every week. I have liked Leo Laporte ever since The ScreenSaver days. He has several good regulars on the show and mixes in topical guests as well. Howeve...
So, day two was the cool keynote day. Day one keynotes were from Tim O'Reilly (not that he is not cool) and the vendors sponsors. The Intel building blocks stuff was neat, but most of it was vend...
Day one is complete. Portland is great as always. Its really day 1 1/2 since we got in at 1PM yesterday. That allowed us to go to the MySQL/Zend party last night. Great party by those guys. ...
So, I had written a while back: "We currently have a DataMemory of 4GB and IndexMemory of 2GB. Based on the crude methods we have to monitor it, I think we are at about 40% capacity." Boy, I was wro...
There is a bunch of posts on Planet MySQL this week about RAID. This comment from Kevin Burton really kind of made me go "huh?". You’re thinking too low level. Who cares if the disk fails. The ent...
So, the whole world changed at dealnews when Yahoo! linked us. We realized that our current infrastructure was not scaling very well. We had to make a change. The Problem Even though we were using...
A buddy needed a quick report to see if one of his users was slamming his site. I got a little carried away and wrote a PHP script (plus some awk and grep) to make a little report for him. I am sure...
So, the new DST changes in the US caused a small stir among system administrators recently. We got all of our servers updated and verified they were working before the even. Or so we thought. I not...