Monthly Archives: February 2007

Has the English Blogosphere Peaked? 0

It might be true that the english blogosphere has peaked. Check out the breakdown of the top wordpress blogs. Lots of non-english blogs there. Does Scoble’s site count as english or gibberish? (just joking Robert).

Categories: blogs,web2.0

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February 27, 2007 – 11:16 pm
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What’s your Server OS? 3

Royal Pingdom has a decent site architecture breakdown post. They made one major mistake though. Why in the world would you interview any site that has less than ten servers? They’ve clearly never had to deal with any scaling issues. Adding more memory to a box doesn’t count. I’ve blogged about this before but the [...]

Categories: linux,open source

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February 27, 2007 – 11:12 pm
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Google Tech Talks on MySQL 0

Thanks to Google we have a few tech talks about MySQL. One talk about NDB and another about MySQL performance tuning. I know this stuff and even I learned a few things.

Categories: mysql,open source

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February 27, 2007 – 10:10 pm
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Linux Kernel Contributor Rank Distribution 0

LWN was nice enough go determine the percentages of code contributions to the Linux kernel. Don Dodge also adds some nice commentary. What’s really interesting though is what happens if you graph out the values. Does this look familar?

Categories: linux,open source

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February 27, 2007 – 7:52 pm
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SONY: How you Killed Your Brand 0

This video is awesome! You must really be pathetic if Microsoft can beat you! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R98qC0fd_1w]

Categories: Uncategorized

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February 24, 2007 – 2:04 pm
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Don’t Load Javascript off External Sites 1

Naill writes about Yahoo’s new javascript hosting platform: Yahoo! is opening up the JavaScript powering its websites a bit more tonight, encouraging developers to directly reference libraries on its servers from within their webpages. Yahoo! User Interface Hosting opens up versioned access to the popular YUI Library, creating faster load times for sites across the [...]

Categories: java,web2.0,yahoo

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February 23, 2007 – 4:22 pm
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Gulf of Tonkin 2.0 0

If this evolves into another Gulf of Tonkin incident my head is going to implode. WASHINGTON (CNN) — Iranian patrol boats have increased attempts in the last week to assess defenses near Iraqi offshore oil terminals, U.S. military officials said Monday. The Iranian actions at the northern end of the Persian Gulf have been a [...]

Categories: politics

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February 19, 2007 – 5:59 pm
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My Kingdom for Computed Linux Filesystem Page Cache Efficiency 7

OK lazy web…. You have to help me out! I try to monitor every performance metric I can within my cluster. Memcached efficiency, MySQL key buffer efficiency, etc. One thing I can’t benchmark is the efficiency of the Linux filesystem buffer (buffer cache). From all the research I have done there’s no way to to [...]

Categories: linux,mysql,open source

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February 19, 2007 – 12:26 pm
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XFS vs ZFS 5

I did some comparison of ZFS vs XFS last week to review the current state of the art in filesystems. Long story short. XFS is still the reigning champion (at least on Linux). XFS beats out most filesystem benchmarks across the board. Reiser does well on directories with lots of small files but not enough [...]

Categories: linux,mysql,open source

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February 17, 2007 – 5:45 pm
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Buy Used Hard Drives for your RAID 2

Some of the common conceptions of data storage seem to have been blown out of the water. Two things I found interesting: In their study they found that there was no correlation between disk failure rates and utilization, environmental conditions such as temperature, or age. This means that high disk utilization or age of the [...]

Categories: linux,mysql,open source

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February 15, 2007 – 10:42 pm
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