I'm not contributing here, but am active over on my blog at https://1500wordmtu.com/ and also trying out Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/1500wordmtu.com

It appears that Fedora 12 moved to a new boot init system called dracut.  Sadly due to a number of odd circumstances this has caused me much pain.  Here's my basic config

• /boot and /  on /dev/sda
• /var and /home on a partitioned software raid on /dev/sd{cd}

After an yum-based upgrade to Fedora 12 I rebooted.  We get to the point where we initialize the ( Read more... )

I dug this little gem out of the archives.  Enjoy!


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In the beginning I used elm to read my mail.  This was somewhat radical, especially as I worked with the team that created POPMail for the mac and Minuet for the PC, and everyone else moved to pine.  Then came Mutt -- happy days -- I was able to slice and dice email with amazing speed.

A couple of years ago I converted over to Mail.app -- mostly ( Read more... )

Using an SSL Accelerator like a Netscaler is really useful, you can offload a lot of work to a device that supports this in hardware and can use SSL session affinity to send requests to the same backend.  In the simplest setup the SSL Accelerator accepts the request and proxies it to your internal set of hosts running on port 80.

However, code that ( Read more... )

today is tuesday. Ain't it grand...

Speaking at "Meet the Containers", "Shindig 101" and "OpenSocial Fireside Chat".

All at Moscone West, check it out!

http://code.google.com/events/io/

Originally posted on paul.vox.com

"Two Characters Sets?  Seems like plenty!"

So I've been pushing Java to it's limits lately and finding some real nasty concurrency issues inside the JRE code itself.  Here's one particulary ugly one -- we had 700 threads stuck here:

java.lang.Thread.State: BLOCKED (on object monitor ( Read more... )

 At hi5 we've been busy busy busy getting OpenSocial up and running.  We released our developer sandbox, and are rapidly implementing features.  So check out the following URLs

• hi5 OpenSocial developer announcement
  
• http://sandbox.hi5.com/
• hi5 Platform Development Group

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This has got to be a bug....

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We've noticed that customers who have purchased or rated White Noise Critical: Text and Criticism (Viking Critical Library) by Don DeLillo have also purchased Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Jamie Bronstein. For this reason, ( Read more... )