Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2010
Dear people posting cars on auto trading websites: stop saying “Cambiocorsa GT”. The two terms are mutually exclusive. Coupe Cambiocorsa uses an F1 gearbox, Coupe GT uses and ordinary foot clutch.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 26th, 2010
I was super bored this evening, didn’t want to think about work, and I didn’t want to get tweaked out on coffee. Instead I went running for three miles in the gym. Looking over my notes, the last time I put on my running shoes was October 2007. Prior to that, my last sponsored run […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 22nd, 2010
My original photoshop of a fark photoshop has made the network nerd rounds, now it lives on in t-shirt form. The image changed for the shirt because I didn’t have a bigger original. On one hand, there is a surprising number of stock photos of crying little kids on Getty Images and other internets. On […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 16th, 2010
Beware of the good idea fairy. This sprite not only plants the seed of faulty ideas in the brains of soldiers, but also people in IT.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 11th, 2010
My Nagios boxes run pnp4nagios+npcd to record plug-in performance data to RRD files. On one system I enabled rrdcached on, a little over 9,000 files are updated every five minutes. I saw a 30% decrease in disk write operations/second, all other things held constant. There wasn’t a noticeable difference in bytes/second, which I guess is […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 9th, 2010
I was excited to see that rrdtool 1.4 was finally released (in October), and with it rrdcached support finally in a main release. After updating rrdtool packages on a couple of my systems I sat out to make things start using the new caching daemon. Cacti was my first to play around with since it […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 6th, 2010
Looking at webserver logs, web crawlers are my most popular visitors today: Feedfetcher (Google): 32 Baiduspider (Baidu): 15 Googlebot (Google): 12 Yahoo! Slurp US: 12 Yahoo! Slurp China: 2 BlogSearch (IceRocket): 4 I guess if I have anything to say, it’ll be indexed somewhere! A peep pointed me to a very interesting presentation by Robert […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 1st, 2010
First post of the decade! And to think 10 years ago I was waiting for the digital world to end when 2000 rolled around. Long live 2038!
