Archive for July, 2006
Comedy Central was nice enough to put up video podcasts but they’ve been broken for at least 2-3 weeks now.
For some reason hardware vendors keep producing power adapters which continually break where the plug leaves the base unit. I’ve broken five-six power adapters over the last two years and literally in the exact same spot.
I wanted to see if you guys had any good suggestion here.I’m considering migrating away from ServerBeach.
Here’s a fun little performance tweak you can use to increase the throughput of your MySQL slave boxes.MySQL replication is single threaded when it comes to running SQL. If you have a number of clients performing INSERTs at the same time on a master server these are serialized and replayed on your slaves.
Paul Graham has an interesting post about Digg potentially censoring Reddit:I know the guys running reddit, and they’re just religious about never killing stories they don’t like…. Every once and a while a neocon like Michelle Malkin will get the top position and it really annoys me that I can’t just kill the story.
Peter Dawson posted a comment on my previous post noting that Digg has documentation for a pending API.The Digg API (at the time this article was written) has not yet been released…. That means, if it doesn’t work, don’t email me about it.I hope their still open to feedback at this point because I have some concerns (which I’m sure Dave will mirror).Specifically why didn’t they just use REST via RSS?
Just wanted to give a big shout out to Technorati on their big UI update…. My browser provides an Accept-Language header telling you that I only accept english.
I can see both sides of the coin on this issue. Digg is a better ‘memedigger’ than Netscape in my opinion but man – Jason Calcanis is the Bill O’Reilly of the blogosphere (and I don’t necessarily mean that in a bad way Jason).
This is awesome. Apparently, Hwang Woo-suk, that South Korean scientist (who was disgraced a few years ago for wasting research funds) didn’t steal the money after all – he was just trying to clone a mammoth.
MySQL 5.1 (which is in beta right now btw) will have an interesting new feature called partitioning which will allow for a bit more scalability in certain situations. You can read more about it here, here, and here.
Great find by Steve Rubel. Apparently Google Video now has support for permalinks within the video.
This is a great quote by Peter Norvig and why the RDF community continually fails to understand why RDF has failed to take the world by storm:”We deal with millions of Web masters who can’t configure a server, can’t write HTML…. With less human oversight with the Semantic Web, we are worried about it being easier to be deceptive,” Norvig said.If you can’t configure a webserver, can’t get the timezone right, and can’t even get the encoding correct for your content, what makes you think you can deploy RDF?
Jason Calacanis has offered to compensate Digg users to switch over to Netscape thereby firing antoher warning shot in the Digg vs Netscape smackdown. Techcrunch has called this a red flag but I just see this as an evolutionary step towards direct compensation of users.
As part of building Tailrank we need to build a high availability and high performance MySQL cluster capable of running on cheap commodity hardware and in high performance environments. Unfortunately MySQL really falls down in a lot of areas especially when you make it do real work.Luckily this is Open Source which means we can fix things.
Check out OpenDNS.
I couldn’t help but blog this. According to the UN 14k Iraqi’s have been killed in 2006.By comparison only 3,000 Americans died in 911.Granted even one death is a tragedy but the numbers here are a bit shocking.
so I’m over on Om’s blog (which is required reading of course) when I see a mention of Verizon FiOS which seems pretty hot at 50 metabit. I haven’t heard of FiOS so I head over to their corporate site which is flash rich and instantly blocked by my browser.
I just wanted to congratulate both Feedburner and BlogBeat on the new acquisition. Seems like peas and carrots here guys.
I’ve been looking at a problem with our memory cache system at work for the last week and the problem finally clicked into place.At work I developed this really awesome benchmarking library which exports statistics from various subsystems in my robot. It works really well – too well sometimes.Its been telling me that one of my caches is only functioning at 20% efficiency.
You cannot stop Joementum!
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