Every other year we go to San Francisco for Christmas, where there's a tree (lately three feet, max, which I try to pretend is just great since cutting down whole trees sits less and less comfortably with me with each passing year. So a little tree is better than a ...
I manage a web server. Sometimes, I think I do a way better job than anyone who managed this server before me. Other times, I think I'm grossly under qualified. There is a lot that I don't know. Too much, I sometimes suspect. One thing I do know is that I'm paying a lot of money ($360/month) for a dedicated server that I'm pretty sure I don't need. When I started to shop around for alternatives, I started to hear a lot about Virtual Private Servers from folks like Mayfirst. Actually only from Mayfirst -- I didn't shop around that intently. It wasn't until I got a beer with Scott the other night that I had the perfect alignment of stars I needed to get me over my comprehension hurdle. Here's the thing about not understanding everything all the time: it is hard to know what questions to ask. I know I need root on a machine. I need to be able to tweak the apache configuration at will. Can I do that with VPS? The answer is "yes" but somehow it took me a while to get to where I even knew how to ask that question.
I thought I'd be slick and use the library (I don't, ever. Which is no good) and the thing I wanted to put my hands on isn't there. I'm still looking for a non Windows based old Treo or something that I can geek out with. Also, I'm kind ...
I have installed reblog on other blogs, and never had a whiff of trouble, but this time around I'm just flummoxed. My Refeed-Plugin.php looks about right, and "Fetch reBlog" claims to have accomplished things but I can't figure out where to find and approve the gathered posts. The ...
If you people knew how many personal finance posts I've started and walked away from, you'd ... well, okay like five, but still. You'd something. I want to talk about saving and budgeting. I want to know how other people manage it. Are you structured? Loose? Are you putting ...
Someone (Hsuan, to be precise, but that isn't the point really) came to me recently with a corrupted SD card. Normally, I don't do corrupted SD cards. I so do not want to be that guy that sits there and fixes what is broke. That doesn't appeal to me at all. But when there is a command line involved, or a real mystery ... I can find it hard to resist. You can see why my career as something other than a widget twiddler is not really taking off. The answer, if you like to skip the narrative (hmph) is photorec. Which actually does amazing things for all manner of data recovery. Here's what I had before me: [0 amanda@stillwell CANON_DC]$ find . -type f find: Filesystem loop detected; `./DCIM/101CANON/101CANON' has the same device number and inode as a directory which is 1 level higher in the filesystem hierarchy. So whatever, PhotoRec. Great. But people always want to know why. I do. So why? Why? David Henry, who I do not know, and yet kind of do know (the internet is sneaky that way) had a pretty good explanation, which I can't really improve on: I was long puzzled by filesystem stuff, until I realized much is done by elves!
Worth trying: sar -q for a rundown of queue lengths and load averages. Also pstree and I need to sort out what this: I reniced the gzip process with a low priority level to reduce the load it's putting on your server. I'd recommend running these scripts with a +19 ...
FolioGrid - a Premium Wordpress Theme by FrogsThemes.com