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by timdoug 14y ago
For zeroing unused blocks, I can suggest zerofree: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/zerofree
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by timdoug 14y ago
Unsure if it's new or not, but it's on their website: http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/diablo-iii-installat... "This error is caused when FileVault options are enabled, or if a volume is formatted as case-sensitive. These options a
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by timdoug 14y ago
Works wonders for me. Thanks!
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by timdoug 14y ago
Yeah -- that's one of the huge benefits of marking a field as ``required'' in a protobuf. The ability to enforce a contract prevents a ton of unexpected and incomplete data making it on disk (and also, e.g., across the wire to clients). Ha
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by timdoug 14y ago
All-told the users database when we started migration was about 600 GB on disk, so not the most easily stored database in RAM, but not impossible if you get enough large machines. In fact, we use Redis a lot at Bump, although almost exclusi
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by timdoug 14y ago
Yep! This is exactly how it works. Each app node runs a magicd which connects to an haproxy instance on localhost (connected to every machine in the database cluster), so when a Riak node goes down we don't miss a beat.
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by timdoug 14y ago
We experienced some significant difficulties with sharding; the automatic methods of doing so only seemed to shard a single-digit percentage of our data. We've also encountered some wildly unexpected issues with master/slave replication and
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by timdoug 14y ago
I'm not sure what exactly qualifies as respectable scale, but the Mongo master was running out of space and IO capacity with 24 SSDs and 90 million user records, and was replaced by a sixteen-node Riak cluster. I'll happily share any other
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by timdoug 14y ago
It's a development vs. operations tradeoff; we'd rather write code during the day so that when a database machine falls over at night we don't get paged.
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Migrating From MongoDB To Riak At Bump(devblog.bu.mp)
131 points by timdoug 14y ago|131 comments
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by timdoug 15y ago
What about the Enterprise Partner Feed that Apple has provided since '07? http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentati...
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by timdoug 15y ago
To be fair, legal and unlicensed powered paragliders are able to reach those heights[1]. I only know about airspace classes by way of Wikipedia, but it seems like anything below 18,000 feet and far enough away from an airport in the US is f
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by timdoug 15y ago
Wikitravel is available -- wget http://wrmlbeta.s3.amazonaws.com and you'll see all the dumps they have available, e.g.: http://wrmlbeta.s3.amazonaws.com/entrav-20111105.7z.001 In the age of nearly unlimited connectivity, I still find m
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by timdoug 15y ago
Works for me in Safari.
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by timdoug 15y ago
I can suggest the BasicTeX distro; it's only 69MB, and has always been sufficient for my (admittedly rather basic) TeX needs. http://www.tug.org/mactex/morepackages.html
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Rapid DHCP: Or, how do Macs get on the network so fast?(cafbit.com)
354 points by timdoug 15y ago|180 comments
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by timdoug 15y ago
Actually, it's just a standard WordPress blog using the Latin Modern Roman typeface, which is based upon Computer Modern, the default in [La]TeX. (I dig the TeX-lookalike WP theme, but it should really use other @font-face formats for compa
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by timdoug 16y ago
Ha! I understand entirely. I have the same hardware, and I'm replacing the (now broken) optical drive with an MCE OptiBay and an SSD currently in the mail.
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by timdoug 16y ago
Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=ow7OAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA53&#3...
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by timdoug 16y ago
If you're looking for something mobile, I'd suggest the WikiReader. http://www.thewikireader.com/ Mine has been perfect on every out-of-cell-reception adventure.
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by timdoug 16y ago
Doesn't work for me in FF. shrug
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by timdoug 16y ago
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html "In the time since this paper was published, some people have treated the 35-pass overwrite technique described in it more as a kind of voodoo incantation to banish evil spirits t
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by timdoug 16y ago
Evilwm: http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/ It can spawn a terminal with one keystroke, can move and resize windows, and has virtual desktops. Other than that, it gets the hell out of my way -- no extraneous bars / panels / whatever, and one-p
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by timdoug 16y ago
Truth. This past summer I lived off of Woodside Road and went at least twice weekly.
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by timdoug 16y ago
timdoug offers one-line opt-out (in /etc/hosts): 127.0.0.1 tcr.tynt.com ...and this is cross-browser and doesn't disappear when I clear my cookies.
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Johanna Blakely: Lessons from fashion's free culture(youtube.com)
11 points by timdoug 16y ago|0 comments
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by timdoug 16y ago
Or for the mildly more paranoid, block it entirely; just add the following to /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 ssl.google-analytics.com
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by timdoug 16y ago
The author's name and academic affiliation looked familiar; it turns out he's the same John Norstad who wrote Disinfectant, a freeware Mac anti-virus program that was a staple of all of my school's computers up to its retirement in 1998. It
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by timdoug 17y ago
My favorite Merb subsection: "g. I'll be at RailsConf in Berlin"
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by timdoug 17y ago
$ wget -q -O - http://www.usdebtclock.org | grep "\<embed\>" | wc -l 92 Goodness. edit: Check out their about page, too: http://www.usdebtclock.org/about.html

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