Monthly Archives: August 2006

The Prayer of a Joyeur upon hearing Eric Schmidt, Doctor of Science, Joined Apple's Board

August 30, 2006 – 1:19 am

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray dear Lord my dreams to keep; If we go bankrupt before I wake, Please let dot Mac incinerate. News

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A brief geeking interlude: A real mixed grill

August 29, 2006 – 8:05 pm

I ate a thing called a mixed grill lately. It was at a bar (or rather an Irish Pub) in San Francisco called Fiddler’s Green which is really the other place one can seem to buy a pint of Smithwicks and oddly enough it seems to be owned and operated by actual Irish people. So [...]

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Erlang processes are human too

August 29, 2006 – 7:25 pm

Via Ludo I came to read why processes scale better than threads (a topic that comes around every now and then). But the case is really made in Joe Armstrong’s recent Concurrency is Easy where he does a great job connecting the philosophy behind erlang to common human experiences. Each human is a process you [...]

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Oh Thumpers, Oh Thumpers

August 29, 2006 – 7:55 am

I can’t tell you what a pleasure it is to have your storage run the same operating system as your “normal” servers. So much so that I have to share it with you all after doing some more tooling around on one. So when you have 47 discs sitting around $ zpool create joyous1 raidz2 [...]

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Evaluating proxy engines and load balancers for mongrel-driven ruby on rails applications: an introduction and an open call

August 29, 2006 – 2:01 am

Zed Shaw’s mongrel “is a fast HTTP library and server for Ruby that is intended for hosting Ruby web applications of any kind using plain HTTP rather than FastCGI or SCGI.” And saying that it’s “fast” is true. The performance you get from a single mongrel process listening on a port is quite good. You [...]

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Thin Provisioning in ZFS

August 29, 2006 – 1:07 am

Ah, Ben understands and did a great demonstration of thin provisioning (also read Dave’s Blog) with ZFS using sparse volumes (zvols). HUGE. The ability to thin provision storage is a very “enterprise” feature that one can know get from free when using ZFS+Opensolaris. When combined with ethernet-based storage networks (iSCSI), it’s unstoppable. Ben’s also a [...]

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Kiko Sold

August 26, 2006 – 7:56 pm

For $258,100 on ebay All Hail Ebay. I love ebay. I don’t care what people are saying.

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Goodnight Zune: Bill finally calls it quits. For children.

August 23, 2006 – 3:28 am

In the great Red room There was a telephone And a Looney-Toon1 And a picture of Money jumping over the moon And there were Microsoft shares acting like bears And two little fixes And some regedit trickses And a little toyhouse2 And an old Disney mouse3 Poor Aero on Vista resembles clotted mush Larry4 says [...]

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Some Seed Fell on Rocky Ground: L'affaire Kiko

August 21, 2006 – 11:13 pm

Precusor ”[A] sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it. And some fell upon a rocky ground; and as soon as it was sprung up, it withered away, because it lacked moisture. And [...]

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Thanks for the Techcrunchy party

August 21, 2006 – 8:16 pm

The Techcrunch party was a good time and it’s always nice to see friends and even some hosting customers. Thank you Arrington et al. I had a beer for those of you who couldn’t make it. Picture by Scott Beale of Laughing Squid

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