RRDtool Announcements – RRDtool 1.4 – higher Performance and cool Features rrdcached seems like a cool thing. My organization has a long history with rrdtool, as we run what might be the largest single-machine MRTG instance around. KS2009: How Google uses Linux [LWN.net] Why is it that anybody doing anything serious with Linux is mangling the kernel on their own? Google, Red Hat… I guess that's the power of open source, but I think it's a downfall in some ways, too.
Barbershop Songs are Fun! | David Choi Music David Choi's cover of Fireflies is great. I have a lot of respect for the amount of time it takes to put something like that together, and it's really well done. This guy is on my list of people to see next time I'm out west. Block sizes, think before you decide ยป Yellow Bricks Good recommendation for VMFS3 block sizes. I've been formatting all my datastores as 8 MB blocks, so I have fewer problems growing them in the future. Disgruntled Star Editor Takes Constructive Revenge – Torontoist Firing your editors is a moronic move. Editors are awesome. ALL NEW! Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles | Star Wars Gangsta Rap | …
Dislike 0.2 Adds a Disapproving Dislike Button to Facebook – Facebook – Lifehacker I wish there was a dislike button. Then I could take all those passive-aggressive statuses people have and give them the thumbs down. Ryan Gordon Halts FatELF Project "It looks like the Linux kernel maintainers are frowning on the FatELF patches," he writes, "Some got the idea and disagreed, some didn't seem to hear what I was saying, and some showed up just to be rude." The Linux community needs to grow up. FatELF would have made distributing commercial binaries a lot easier, and the user experience of running them a lot better. The problem is that the Linux community doesn't care about their users, or what …
Disable User Account Control (UAC) for certain Windows Vista applications | Windows Vista for Beginners WTF, people. I want to disable UAC for my defragmenter, and my defragmenter alone. But to do so requires some tribal dancing, a sacrifice of a goat, etc. This "all or nothing" security model needs to die.
BLDGBLOG: A Million Years of Isolation: An Interview with Abraham Van Luik Interesting interview with a geoscientist working on the Yucca Mountain project in the US.
Stop the Presses!!! AT&T announces iPhone MMS. | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com This also means iPhone OS 3.1 will ship on or before 9/25, as 3.0 doesn't have MMS support.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Release Notes: Architecture Specific Support "In a virtual environment, timekeeping for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 64-bit kernels can be problematic, since time is kept by counting timer interrupts. De- and re-scheduling the virtual machine can cause a delay in these interrupts, resulting in a timekeeping discrepancy. This kernel release reconfigures the timekeeping algorithm to keep time based on a time-elapsed counter." This is good news for VMs. Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog Holy crap — 67 TB of SATA for $7867. Go DiY!
Justin (s***mydadsays) on Twitter This guy lives with his parents and Tweets the best things his dad says…
Godwin's law – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1." So true.
Google Search Appliance virtual edition This is pretty cool, index up to 50K documents with the test appliance. (via Scott Lowe)