The NFL apparently nastygrammed a church for planning to host a Super Bowl party. The original complaint was first that the church was charging people, but also that they used the term “Super Bowl” (as if people would somehow believe that the church was associated with the NFL?). After the church agreed to let people…
Planes at 600 meters!
On Friday, an aircraft hired by Google will be doing a series of low-level swoops over parts of Sydney, photographing the ground and waters below. The three-seater plane, decked out in Google livery, will have special permission to fly at an altitude of 600m. Providing the photographs turn out to be good enough quality, the…
Slack talk at SLUG
Slides are online, and the talk was videoed, so I imagine that the video will go online one day too.
That’s one way of doing it…
Does anyone else think it’s kind of creepy that you need a secret code to submit paper proposals for Microsoft’s TechEd conference? Cause I sure do. I guess that explains why there aren’t many community sessions at TechEd.
Screenshots of entire webpages using Firefox
ScreenGrab 0.8 looks useful for authors wanting to take screen shots of entire webpages, not just the bit that fits on their screen.
Please don’t
A fresh cup mentions the Ruby on Rails exception notifier plugin. The idea is that every time an exception is raised in your code you get an email. This is such a horrible idea that I need to take the time to comment. As someone who spends all his time dealing with large deployments of…
Page views matter
Thanks Simon!
Large inodes = faster samba
Ted T’so just mentioned in his LCA 2007 talk that larger inode sizes improves the speed of Samba 4. This is because you can fit more file attributes in the inode. I can’t find a reference to the benchmark results online quickly, but wanted to make a note of this.
Mirror traffic during the last day of LCA 2007
It seems obvious to me that videos of LCA 2007 are good. Specifically: IPTraf # Statistics for eth0 ########################################################## # # # Total Total Incoming Incoming Outgoing Outgoing # # Packets Bytes Packets Bytes Packets Bytes # # Total: 241091 228940K 96646 18025370 144445 210915K # # IP: 241091 225548K 96646 16655328 144445 208892K #…
Errata: Tweak to homework, new VMWare image
It had to happen. I screwed up the ffmpeg installation in the homework for the tutorial, so the tutorial page now has an errata section which explains the problem. Additionally, if you downloaded the VMWare image before now, you’ll need to download a new copy. Sorry for any pain caused.