It’s still hanging in there like a monkey on my back. Speaking of colds… Vista is off to a cold start, security wise, isn’t it? Already a privilege escalation vulnerability letting local restricted users become local admins. “UNBREAKABLE ORACLE VISTA!”
Small comedy of errors there. Down for a bit. We apologize for the inconvenience. Management will be refunding ticket prices at the door on the way out. We hope you’ll enjoy the rest of the movie. Cheers
When you’re on the leading edge of things you always have a problem: dirty data. And the quest for clean data is always at the forefront of your mind. Last night while searching for a geocoding service which didn’t suck outside the US and major EU countries I cane upon this article which put into [...]
If there’s one thing that the OpenFount guys have shown me is that they’re serious about the Infinidisk product. Mr. Donahue gave me a quick call this evening (seems my e-mail server and his e-mail server aren’t talking properly, so while I get his communications) he has not received mine (probably explaining the lack of [...]
Rentzsch.com says programmers don’t like to code… Yea… I’ll buy that. I’ve described “what I do” to many many people as “solving tough problems.” I’d much rather get into the problem itself than write all the scaffolding and crap that lets me get face to face with it. So yea. Sign me up. Cheers
Now this is cool: CryoPID a process freezer for linux. “CryoPID allows you to capture the state of a running process in Linux and save it to a file. This file can then be used to resume the process later on, either after a reboot or even on another machine. CryoPID was spawned out of [...]
I’m really very impressed with the speed at which the Openfount guys responded to my last post. I definitely give Kudos to Bill for being on top of things! I’m running out the door so I’ll keep this short and sweet. He’s right, I did generalize databases into InnoDB, but thats because it’s what I [...]
I mentioned a while back that I was going to be playing with the S3 Infinidisk Product. What I found in my testing was that this product is not prime time ready. There was a nasty bug which caused data to be lost if the mv command was used. The scripts themselves were unintuitive. They [...]
I’ve been working very hard (and very constantly) lately, and as is the case with most technical creators this means that the blog has suffered a lack of posts recently. This is an attempt not to make up for that, but to fill in the gap with a bit of noise. I like to think [...]
The HPricot ruby gem has been updated to 0.5.0. Now if you’ve ever had to parse XML (Including HTML) without HPricot, you’ll be hooked in the first 5 minutes. There’s no parser, that I’ve found, that’s less like beating your head against a bowl of cold oatmeal than HPricot is! It’s almost pleasant! Check new [...]