Monthly Archives: September 2007

Dean Spotting

September 27, 2007 – 11:56 pm

While in France, running down the aisle of a train, chased by the conductor, I snapped this shot: click for larger version You decide.

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Quick wins with MySQL

September 25, 2007 – 3:52 pm

Working at Joyent I get to see many different types of MySQL setups whether it’s replicated, clustered, load balanced or just a single instance. Each one runs a lot differently than the other so they all require different settings. Even though they each need custom tuning, there are a few performance wins you can get [...]

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Virtualization is more than just consolidation

September 19, 2007 – 7:53 pm

I was asked to co-present with an engineer from Sun at an upcoming conference in October. I asked him to do his slides and then shoot me over the presentation so I could fill in my half. I noticed that his view of virtualization and mine were very different. To put it into jargon speak, [...]

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Vote for Strongspace: Best Online Backup Service

September 11, 2007 – 7:40 pm

The fine folks over at Lifehacker have put together a little survey for the Best Online Backup Service.

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More Classics in Tech Writing: A Literary Suggestion

September 5, 2007 – 5:27 pm

My academic background is Classics (Greek, primarily, but also Latin). So I was pleased to see Nat Torkington begin a blog post on O’Reilly Radar with a reference to the battle of Cannae between the Romans and the Carthaginians. He compares Microsoft (in their effort to promote their Office XML format) to the Romans, and [...]

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