chrisbolt

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by chrisbolt 18y ago
Even the map is of Cupertino...
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
One thing I've never liked about postgres is that for any major version upgrade (8.3 -> 8.4) you need to do a full dump and restore of all your data. How do people handle this?
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
Consumer broadband pricing has a lot more to do with last mile costs than in a datacenter.
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
ContentLink ads - the chlamydia of the web
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
Shift+Command+G
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
Browsers usually limit themselves to 4 simultaneous requests at a time to the same server.
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
Another point: of Facebook's 175 million active users, 700,000 represents 0.4%.
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
How did you have contact with Sotira directly?
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
Specs listed at http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dell-adamo-announced-1-2g... A fair bit slower than the MacBook Air, quite a bit heavier, integrated graphics, and $200 more, but with an SSD...
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
Even better is patching Net-SNMP to output %util over SNMP, then pulling the numbers into cacti for various graphs.
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
In some areas, AT&T's network coverage is a joke. Right now I'm in my apartment a block away from Hollywood Blvd in Los Angeles, facing a window, and I can barely hold a signal.
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
If you're using MyISAM, you can use MERGE tables to split data over multiple tables, or you can use partitioning. Then when you decide one of the 'sub' tables is 'full' you can take it out of the MERGE table, do a read lock, rsync it to a b
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
We've been using this at work for a while now, and it's a good way of getting consistent backups. Only drawbacks are that I think it only works with MyISAM tables, and writes block for a few seconds while the snapshot is created.
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
http://tinyurl.com/sizeasy
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
Why aren't they using a CDN?
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
That's great if your data access is localized or infrequent enough that you aren't exceeding your disks' I/O limits, or if you have lots of I/O capacity by adding lots of spindles, but even adding spindles isn't going to be as good as addin
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
You may have to have your Google Apps configured to turn on new features in Domain Settings. It's definitely working for me.
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
Dropbox uses Amazon S3.
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
Because it doesn't have a chip to decode ogg, so it would have to use the main CPU which would quickly drain the battery.
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
You can use an SMS gateway like http://www.clickatell.com/
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
See also http://www.laterloop.com/ for something very similar
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
Twitter isn't that complicated of a website, it shouldn't take them more than a few days to migrate only the high load sections (tweets) to a sharded architecture. All they need is money for more database servers (and they have at least $15
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
> We currently use one database for writes with multiple slaves for read queries. As many know, replication of MySQL is no easy task, so we've brought in MySQL experts to help us with that immediately. This really makes me wonder if the
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
thirding, I've got over 200 supermicro servers and they're rock solid
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by chrisbolt 18y ago
Cacti and Pingdom (www.pingdom.com) for external monitoring.
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by chrisbolt 19y ago
Didn't Windows 95 have a bug where it would crash after 49.7 days because the counter used to keep track of its uptime overflowed?
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by chrisbolt 19y ago
Slackware and Slamd64 on ~190 servers, stripped down to 120 megs. Downloads root filesystem with netboot and runs it in-memory.