October 31, 2011Not everyone is fully aware of what I do at the moment, where I work, and where the money comes from. I need to remain forthright about it, particularly when I have been, do, and will be blogging about companies that have to do with my paycheck, however remotely. Here’s the scoop. I’m currently acting [...]
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October 11, 2011I’ve been collecting information on Solid State Drives, and I’ve learned quite a bit over the past year or so. So much that I would like to make that knowledge available to other people. I’ve considered writing a blog post, but it’s beyond a single, or even a few blog posts (and I’ve got enough [...]
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October 8, 2011I just figured out that comments weren’t going through on here. Deactivating W3 Total Cache fixed that (plus a bunch of other niggling details I didn’t like). I’ll reactivate it if I get slammed, and in the meantime, I’ll work on a caching solution that works AND doesn’t hose the blog in general. If you’ve [...]
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October 5, 2011I don’t make a habit of posting job offerings here, because they’re interpreted as noise so frequently, but I’m making an exception in this case. Tony Del Porto, the long-esteemed sysadmin who has held together various USENIX conference networks throughout the years, is leaving USENIX for another opportunity. This means his position is available. The [...]
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September 7, 2011I just got an email from Kyle Brandt of ServerFault who gave me some bad news. It turns out that the Stack Exchange Scalability Conference in San Francisco is cancelled, along with its colocated event, DevDays 2011. I’m really sorry to hear about that, because it looked like a promising event. I’m sure that Joel [...]
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August 26, 2011I host my site at prgmr.com, but it is essentially a small VPS, probably underpowered for the traffic spikes the my blog gets on occasion. I’ve done a few things to try to improve that time (such as using wp-super-cache, and I’ve investigated using nginx as a front end proxy (or even a replacement) for [...]
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