If you are a user of GrabPERF you have noticed a few changes.
Thanks to the sponsors we have so far:
There are a couple of more in the pipeline, and I look forward to working with all of the sponsors.
On this blog and the GrabPERF site, you will see the 
icon. If you want to support the developer, there are a few items there that will bring a smile to my face! 😉
Seems that us Introverts are busting out everywhere.
Jonathan Rauch hits for six with this article.
I work at a company run by Extroverts, who, without a second thought, promote the Extroverts and marginalize the Introverts.
The thing is that in my company, outside of sales, the company is dominated by Introverts. In fact, because it is a technology company, the Introverts are really the ones who have the power.
And the Extroverts wonder why the Introverts DESPISE the open plan office — no cubes, no offices.
Where are the companies run by Introverts, for Introverts?
Looks like Weblogs.com resolved their issues.
Lifehack.org lists the top ten reasons to being an Introvert. As an INTJ, I can relate to these.
10) Work Well With Others, Especially In One-to-One Relationships
9) Maintain Long-Term Friendships
8) Flexible
7) Independent
6) Strong Ability To Concentrate
5) Self-Reflective
4) Responsible
3) Creative, Out-of-the-Box thinking
2) Analytical Skills That Integrate Complexity
1) Studious and Smart
Looks like I need to buy The Introvert Advantage.
If you or your company would like to donate to GrabPERF, here is what we need!
Opera, my #2 browser choice is now free. Go get it!
Now, Netcraft reports that the site is slowing down as a result. I am also measuring it using GrabPERF
—- START RANT
Now, if they turned on compression and had some explicit cache-control information, they might not be doing to badly.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:51:09 GMT
Server: mod-xslt/1.3.8 Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) \
mod_perl/1.999.21 Perl/v5.8.4
Last-Modified: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:25:37 GMT
ETag: "771846-1277-63ed7240"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 4727
Content-Type: text/html
They are using Apache. Apache has mod_deflate. TURN IT ON!
—- END RANT
Here are the IP Block and Address allocation by registrar, as well as the number of officially allocated IP Addresses in each country (with 65536 Hosts or more) as of September 22, 2005 00:30 UTC.
This data has been extracted from the GrabIP database
IP REGISTRAR BREAKDOWN
registry NUM_HOSTS NUM_BLOCKS -------- ---------- ---------- arin 1484282368 36395 ripencc 363643440 19126 apnic 293023232 11504 lacnic 38634752 1551 afrinic 10626304 479
NUMBER OF ALLOCATED IP ADDRESSES BY COUNTRY (65536 Hosts or more)**
COUNTRY COUNTRY_CODE NUM_HOSTS NUM_BLOCKS ------------------------------------------ ------------ ---------- ---------- UNITED STATES US 1316020992 31251 JAPAN JP 141465088 1510 EUROPEAN UNION EU 113823420 4604 CHINA CN 72603904 889 CANADA CA 66684672 4926 GERMANY DE 50096208 1622 FRANCE FR 42913408 1197 KOREA, REPUBLIC OF KR 40838400 359 UNITED KINGDOM UK 39511928 1702 UNITED KINGDOM GB 33562368 25 AUSTRALIA AU 26556416 4762 NETHERLANDS NL 16418208 1001 SPAIN ES 16367648 419 ITALY IT 16228448 733 TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA TW 15157248 322 BRAZIL BR 15075072 261 SWEDEN SE 12087680 533 MEXICO MX 11030528 154 RUSSIAN FEDERATION RU 10549832 1191 SOUTH AFRICA ZA 8198656 255 POLAND PL 7411332 729 FINLAND FI 7364224 266 SWITZERLAND CH 6889408 763 DENMARK DK 6860064 277 HONG KONG HK 6193152 538 INDIA IN 5993472 360 AUSTRIA AT 5763744 388 NORWAY NO 5068448 244 BELGIUM BE 4318208 293 NEW ZEALAND NZ 4291072 1129 TURKEY TR 3674304 169 CHILE CL 3022592 316 ARGENTINA AR 2974720 241 IRELAND IE 2905504 116 THAILAND TH 2857472 296 CZECH REPUBLIC CZ 2815232 190 ROMANIA RO 2774144 292 ISRAEL IL 2727296 122 SINGAPORE SG 2686976 307 PORTUGAL PT 2609216 98 MALAYSIA MY 2569472 191 HUNGARY HU 2220416 132 GREECE GR 1766656 162 VENEZUELA VE 1753088 79 INDONESIA ID 1615872 244 BULGARIA BG 1452032 196 UKRAINE UA 1369536 631 EGYPT EG 1280768 55 COSTA RICA CR 1254144 12 PHILIPPINES PH 1173248 189 SLOVAKIA SK 992256 89 SAUDI ARABIA SA 969984 81 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES AE 964608 14 COLOMBIA CO 938752 106 LATVIA LV 882496 107 IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IR 844288 53 LITHUANIA LT 812928 69 PERU PE 679424 59 SLOVENIA SI 668160 103 ESTONIA EE 649472 45 VIET NAM VN 627712 39 ICELAND IS 507904 28 PANAMA PA 469760 31 YUGOSLAVIA YU 347392 35 CROATIA HR 346688 34 PAKISTAN PK 345600 77 LUXEMBOURG LU 307968 50 KUWAIT KW 297984 25 CYPRUS CY 274720 58 BOLIVIA BO 263424 20 KAZAKHSTAN KZ 259072 28 ECUADOR EC 258816 127 MALTA MT 242432 32 MOROCCO MA 233728 9 PUERTO RICO PR 220928 30 URUGUAY UY 206592 25 JORDAN JO 191744 29 BANGLADESH BD 187904 56 QATAR QA 176128 6 PALESTINIAN TERRITORY, OCCUPIED PS 173824 17 BRUNEI DARUSSALAM BN 172544 11 OMAN OM 163840 5 SRI LANKA LK 163840 29 NIGERIA NG 159744 24 EL SALVADOR SV 156672 13 GUATEMALA GT 145152 19 MACAO MO 143616 16 MACEDONIA, THE FORMER YUGOSLAV REPUBLIC OF MK 143360 11 BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA BA 137216 25 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC DO 128768 21 GEORGIA GE 126976 20 BELARUS BY 119552 16 LEBANON LB 112640 16 KENYA KE 107776 22 TUNISIA TN 106752 4 AZERBAIJAN AZ 92160 11 ALGERIA DZ 90880 16 NICARAGUA NI 89344 10 FIJI FJ 88832 10 CUBA CU 87040 11 ARMENIA AM 86016 10 UZBEKISTAN UZ 77824 9 UGANDA UG 75008 4 GHANA GH 74496 13 BAHRAIN BH 73728 14 MOLDOVA, REPUBLIC OF MD 71680 16 BERMUDA BM 66048 18 KYRGYZSTAN KG 65536 9
The attempt to post these weekly has been inconsistent. Let’s shoot for monthly!
**Please note that the total number of IP Addresses for the United Kingdom is the sum of totals for the two unique country codes used when registering IP Blocks — UK and GB.
Technorati: ARIN, RIPE, LACNIC, APNIC, AFRINIC, GrabIP, GeoIP
IceRocket: ARIN, RIPE, LACNIC, APNIC, AFRINIC, GrabIP, GeoIP
This story should come as no surprise to anyone.
Michael Brown, the embattled head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approved payments in excess of $31 million in taxpayer money to thousands of Florida residents who were unaffected by Hurricane Frances and three other hurricanes last year in an effort to help President Bush win a majority of votes in that state during his reelection campaign, according to published reports.
Via: raving lunacy
I love Evelyn. And she nails the reason why I have made parts of GrabPERF not free. [here]
Thanks.
Lovely Rita she ain’t.
EV1Servers Hunkers Down for Hurricane Rita
CEO Robert Marsh says the company has more than 10,000 gallons of diesel fuel on site, and has procured an extra generator in case grid power is unavailable for an extended period. “We anticipate that the coming storm will have no impact on our operations,” Marsh said in a message to customers. “However, we are prepared to deal with any eventuality.”