I spend a few hours this morning playing with Parallels and VMWare Fusion on OS X running Ubuntu. I’m sick Spaces / virtual desktops in OS X being slow. It’s hurting my work now as I jump between desktops. I’m probably going to go back to a single desktop for OS X for a while [...]
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I think Amazon just fired a major show across the bow of dedicated hosting companies like ServerBeach and ServePath with their new reserved instance pricing. I just ran the pricing numbers again and Amazon EC2 is almost the same as we’re currently paying if we pay up front for the year. Of course we’d require [...]
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Looks like gmail is starting to mark WordPress ‘new comment’ emails as spam (at least on my end). If you have a comment that you posted to my blog it might not have hit the Internets as I didn’t see the email prompting me for approval. I’ll try to go through and approve a bunch [...]
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This might be a bit cutting edge, but the new fallocate() call in > Linux 2.6.23 might be able to improve InnoDB performance. When InnoDB needs more space it auto-extends the current data file by 8MB. If this is writing out zeros to the new data (to initialize it) then using fallocate() would certainly be [...]
I’ve been planning on playing with sun.misc.Unsafe for a while now but couldn’t find the time. Long story short… Unsafe is awesome. Check out the cool things you can do with it (that you normally couldn’t do with Java): [sourcecode language="java"] /** * Allocates a new block of native memory, of the given size in [...]
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