Dean Spotting
While in France, running down the aisle of a train, chased by the conductor, I snapped this shot:
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You decide.
Archive of 'September, 2007'
Quick wins with MySQL
Working at Joyent I get to see many different types of MySQL setups whether it’s replicated, clustered, load balanced or just a single instance.
Each one runs a lot differently than the other so they all require different settings. Even though they each need custom tuning, there are a few performance wins you can get [...]
Virtualization is more than just consolidation
I was asked to co-present with an engineer from Sun at an upcoming conference in October. I asked him to do his slides and then shoot me over the presentation so I could fill in my half. I noticed that his view of virtualization and mine were very different. To put it [...]
Read More»Vote for Strongspace: Best Online Backup Service
The fine folks over at Lifehacker have put together a little survey for the Best Online Backup Service.
Read More»More Classics in Tech Writing: A Literary Suggestion
My academic background is Classics (Greek, primarily, but also Latin). So I was pleased to see Nat Torkington begin a blog post on O’Reilly Radar with a reference to the battle of Cannae between the Romans and the Carthaginians. He compares Microsoft (in their effort to promote their Office XML format) to the Romans, and [...]
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