Entries written in July 2009

Written July 31, 2009 in meta, punditry

Yesterday, a small disaster struck the community I live in. 72,000 people were asked to evacuate their homes and shelter south of the city because officials felt they were at risk of inhaling toxic fumes from an accidental chemical warehouse fire.

Briefly, chatter about the evacuation caused the word “Bryan” …

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Written July 27, 2009 in linux, sysadmin

We’re trying not to use ‘old stuff’ as we’re building out our new cluster, but we have a big need for nfs or some other ad-hoc shared filesystem designed for high i/o on content servers. We’d been using ocfs2, but it’s slower than molasses and doesn’t scale n-ward as you …

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Written July 15, 2009 in php, webdev

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