Category: Braindump

If all else fails…

Today’s Dilbert is awesome. 🙂 Just awesome.

Spring is in the air

Nice weather is finally coming to town and I must say that having sun shining outside every once in a…

Heartbeat..

I always thought of heartbeat as a way of keeping various clustered systems alive. But since a few days I…

RRDtool

RRDtool is a wonderful utility to collect data and create graphs. Why oh why does it have such a crappy…

Friday Afternoon Syndrome

Friday afternoon syndrome is a pleasant disease which can be characterized and distinguished by the following things: Total de-motivation for…

Testdrive of Windows 7, first impressions

So, I managed to install windows 7 in vmware machine in the weekend. Actually in this case “managed” is a…

New monster is on its way

Microsoft announced today the availability of Windows 7. Starting from January 9 one can download it from https://www.microsoft.com/windows7. I, for…

Happy birthday to me

Thus, I’ve been nearing 30 for the past 8 years… Today is a step closer 🙂

Finding MySQL lockups

It’s been two months now since something drops one of my MySQLs on its knees. Run queue jumps up to…

Thus, the lesson on MySQL caching learned…

Default settings of MySQL are in no way good to work with large databases. Example: Virtual XEN machine, 512M RAM,…