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You don't keep searching after you found what you were looking for, right?(badcheese.com)
14 points by scumola 17y ago|13 comments
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Amazon needs a mysql replication/snapshot service(badcheese.com)
2 points by scumola 17y ago|0 comments
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by scumola 17y ago
I use the ssh blacklist utility and it works pretty well. Although it opens up the IPs after 4 days (default), which I don't really liked, so I pumped that up to 14 days which seems to work nicely.
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by scumola 17y ago
kinda old
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by scumola 17y ago
Just write to /mnt (150GB ramdrive on the small instance) then occasionally sync to an EBS volume. That'll probably give you the best I/O.
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by scumola 17y ago
Yea, log to a file and turn on write-caching on your HD controller.
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System Administrators: who we are, what we do & why we look at you that way(badcheese.com)
3 points by scumola 17y ago|0 comments
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by scumola 17y ago
I've re-written many perl things in C to speed up processing time - for me, it's better than buying more/newer hardware. Also, for smallish scripts that I invoke millions of times or a small perl script that does regexps, I can rewrite tho
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by scumola 17y ago
http://archiveteam.org and http://archive.org have been working together since May backing up http://geocities.com http://archive.org has done two full crawls using a shared seed list that http://archiveteam.org and http://archi
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by scumola 17y ago
http://feedhub.com
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by scumola 17y ago
Yea, actually very nice interface. Thanks for the heads up on this site! :)
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by scumola 17y ago
Your newly-created files are still in cache.
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by scumola 17y ago
Those are obviously in cache.
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by scumola 17y ago
ZFS uses an Extensible hash table dor its directory while most of the other filesystems use a b-tree. I'm no ZFS expert, but perhaps this method degrades for larger directories? I'm not trying to be a troll, I'm trying to fix the performan
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Linux w/ reiserfs 3.x vs a SUN SAN 7410 running solaris and ZFS(badcheese.com)
13 points by scumola 17y ago|24 comments
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by scumola 17y ago
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/10/16/colorado.balloon.boy/index....
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Linux guy tries out a Mac for a weekend for the first time(badcheese.com)
14 points by scumola 17y ago|32 comments
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by scumola 17y ago
http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01gP_rsGtkKxEWuhJpyU9YxA==...
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by scumola 17y ago
Most larger companies have an "SSL Accelerator" which is usually part of a router/switch/load-balancer. This device does SSL in hardware, so it can do the offloading much faster and let the web servers and app servers worry about serving-u
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by scumola 17y ago
Write a crawler: Make it nice, so it doesn't hammer sites, convert relative urls to absolute, pull out relative data from html, cycle urls back through crawler for more crawling. Make sure your ISP doesn't have a cap on your monthly bandwi
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The way to do url-shortening right(badcheese.com)
6 points by scumola 17y ago|0 comments
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by scumola 17y ago
Set up your own server and use it instead of a web forum. :) NNTP rocks!
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by scumola 17y ago
I took a parallel programming class in 1993 and programmed HP Fortran on a connection machine, but not much more than one assignment to do iterative matrix averaging in parallel. It was fun, but it was just like programming fortran on any
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by scumola 17y ago
ha ha. Ok, I'll do that. :)
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What to do when your startup grows up?
6 points by scumola 17y ago|5 comments
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by scumola 17y ago
http://www.eye.fi/ and a flickr.com account. The card connects to any open wi-fi access point and just uploads everything to flickr.com or other online photo site. When you get back, go through all of your photos and delete the ones you
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Yahoo engineers explain their homepage design with captions for the nerd-impared(cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com)
1 points by scumola 17y ago|1 comments
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by scumola 17y ago
Too bad zapazon.com is already taken. :)
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by scumola 17y ago
I have my own 'custom' search engine that filters out those annoying sites. You can use it here: http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=015394218516616598090:kmqd...
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by scumola 17y ago
You come up with a price (value of your company). The buyer comes up with a value. If you can't decide on one or the other, get a third party, and the one that is closest to the third party wins. Works well, it's in the best interest of

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