Performance Zen

Author: spierzchala

  • More Photos from the weekend

    Just uploaded a bunch more pics to Flickr from this weekend.
    Needed a break from writing a report and got these up.
    Enjoy.

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  • Google Analytics — HUMILIATION!

    Google, if you are going to launch a Web service, better make sure it’s up and available for your customers so that they can evangelize it.

    It may be good…when I can get to it.

  • You all forgot…again!

    Wish me a happy birthday, you forgetful louts! 😉
    It’s 37 this year.
    And while you’re at it, wish Charles Windsor a happy 57th.

  • Weekend at Sweetgrass Winery

    The Farmhouse At Sweetgrass Winery

    I have posted some pictures of our trip to Sweetgrass Winery on Flickr. I will add more as I process them.

    Keith and Constance are great hosts, and we are really looking forward to watching their progress on the winery/distillery up here. Plus, Maine is a gorgeous place.

  • All of your requests will be stored in /dev/null for archive purposes

    MySQL 5.0 has a Blackhole Storage Engine. [here]
    Cool. And if you make me grumpy, all of your performance data will be stored there! 🙂
    Via: Jeremy Zawodny

  • “The legend lives on…”

    If you are Canadian, you know what follows after those words.

    My friend Kennedy writes to inform me that today is the thirtieth anniversary of the sinking of the S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald. [here]

    30 years. Wow.

  • Out of Touch This Weekend

    Ok, if there is an issue with GrabPERF or any of the other services on this server this weekend, it is unlikely that I will be able to fix it.
    We are going to see friends in Maine, and we aren’t even sure if our mobile phones will work.
    I will try and check mail once a day, but don’t expect long essays or grand thoughts this weekend.

  • Powerbook/iBook

    I want one.
    <pout>
    I hate Windows.
    Linux Desktops make me nuts.
    And Dell…don’t take me there.

  • Ubuntu: Now Uninstalled

    Ubuntu, oh how I wish I understood you!
    My understanding of why people prefer Windows and OSX is cemented. Evolution keeps crashing, and the wireless card, which worked perfectly at the office, can’t see my WRT54G.
    Sorry Linux, until you can make it JUST FREAKING WORK, you are sent back to /dev/null.
    I don’t have time to play; I have work to do.

  • Coming to you from Ubuntu

    Ok, this is the first post from the new Ubuntu-powered work laptop. I partitioned the drive and installed the OS and the only hiccups have been with Evolution, which I think I have beaten into the ground.

    Even the ndiswrapper hack worked perfectly for my wireless card. Nice! This has come a long way since the last time I had an installed linux as my desktop.

    I like the Gnome interface (I know that will get me flamed), but it is good to be back on the old standby. I am still in dual-boot land, as there is at least one app that I absolutely cannot use from Linux.

    Now, if this wasn’t a work laptop, I would be really happy…but no one has volunteered a GrabPERF development laptop for me to use, so Dell Hell it is.

    I will continue to post my experiences as I use this more.