Remember the big scandal about pet food containing melamine? Well it wasn’t an accident. ZHANGQIU, China, April 28 — As American food safety regulators head to China to investigate how a chemical made from coal found its way into pet food that killed dogs and cats in the United States, workers in this heavily polluted [...]
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The JProfiler guys have released version 5.0 which looks really sweet. The recent version of Java supports a new feature to dump the heap to a file on core dump. This version of JProfiler can import these heap dumps into their heap walker. It also supports a new trigger concept so you can perform actions [...]
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Domas Mituzas (who works for MySQL AB and works with Wikipedia) has published a workbook (pdf) about about the design and architecture of Wikipedia. Expect to see lots of common infrastructure tools used in common across sites like Livejournal, Digg, etc. Basically, everyone is using about the same core technology: Started as Perl CGI script [...]
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I’m a big fan of Frontline which just has to be said is one of the best sources of political documentary in the US. A few months ago, I noticed that they put News War up for download. You could watch it online but you couldn’t really play it fullscreen (without hacking it) and you [...]
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Google presented a talk about the MySQL conference about how they deploy MySQL. We use the same general technique here at Tailrank. But they published a pretty interesting hack/trick for fast network IO: on the target: nc l p 12345 | tar xvf no the source: tar cvf * | nc target 12345
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Biden is awesome. If he’s not in the executive branch after this election I’m going to be upset. I think an Obama/Biden ticket would be interesting. Unfortunately, Obama is leading in the polls but these things change. Biden would never accept a junior leading the Presidential ticket. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EcKjqvUnwQ]
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I subscribe to Zawodny’s link blog in my aggregator. I have a lot of link blogs from smart people as it’s a cool way to find random but relevant information. Today I notice this: Desktop Tower Defense illustrates that you don’t need fancy graphics or big budgets to build highly addictive online games. In Desktop [...]
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Seems like a large discussion broke out over ZFS licensing issues on the linux kernel mailing list: Alan Cox [interview] suggested, “the real test of whether Sun were serious about ZFS being anywhere but Solaris is what they do to license it – they’ve patented everything they can, and made the code available only under [...]
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I’m now a Pandora Boy. Seriously. This thing rocks. It even works with my Apple Remote. I tried Last.FM but I seriously didn’t grok it. It was hard to figure out which songs were 30 seconds and which were the full versions. Also, the playlist functionality just didn’t work. Anyway. I’m not a Pandora boy [...]
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My love affair with ZipCar is over. They’re evil. I just received a ‘bill’ for $500 on $1671 worth of damage they say I caused to one of their cars. Here’s the fundamental problem. The car looks like it was side swiped. I parked the car and left it and it was side swiped hours [...]
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