Uncommon Socks: Archive

Dec 31st

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Just read that the jmx port isn’t the only port we need to open the firewall up for; jmx will then go through random RMI ports.. evidently.. ugh.. more firewall mess. hate hate hate it.

Dec 31st

Why is the government open the day before a holiday (that will have early dismissal) when there is an ice/sleet storm? odd.

Dec 31st

The main site driving traffic to my Ochan project page is down.. and analytics is telling me that its hurting like crazy…. traffic to the demo site is almost non-existent.

Dec 30th

“Nothing kills planning like doing adhoc work.”

– Some guy on slashdot

Dec 30th

Enterprise Rent-A-Car vs. Zipcar

Hey all, read this. Very good review! marco: Enterprise: You make a “reservation” for a general car class (“Compact”, “Full Size”, etc.). But when you show up, they’re out of everything, and you’re stuck with something that’s not even close. In my case, my “Premium” (“Nissan Maxima, Toyota Avalon or similar”) was interpreted as a Mini Cooper. And while I enjoy driving Minis, they’re absolutely...

Dec 30th

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There is atleast a method to the mayhem; to which the solution is not more mayhem… KISS, and all will be fine.

Dec 29th

Just applied to open positions working on Amazon AWS (cloud, whatnot)

Dec 29th

Still waiting on my firewall change….. for the third month.

Dec 29th

*waits for gnuplot to compile* The exercise will continue shortly.. we’ll have our 1 command tumblr graph before the night is out!

Dec 29th

Oh, digesting the date string into its parts is simple, use the date command :) so, we have a big list of entries like: date-gmt=”2008-05-07 02:08:06 GMT” We can do: date —date=”2008-05-07 02:08:06 GMT” +%m and you’lll just get the month, see the man page for more awesome. But, now, lets get a SUM of entries by month! for i in `seq -w...

Dec 29th

bashing up a script to grab the date of all posts I’ve ever created: Find the api to get XML call wget -qO- “url” and verify wget is a happy client carriage return the xml for easy grepping (>< = >\n<): sed ‘s/></>\n</g’ grep for the post line: grep -i <post\ awk for the date: awk ‘{print $6” “$7” “$8} ...

Dec 29th

If you cannot manage 5 people, what makes you think you can manage more? What if the strength of a project is that it is small, how do you convince your client to slow down and think smaller? How do you sell that to other clients? Is there no market for that? How do you tell your client that you’ve grown to big and are suffering without losing business. Hrmmm

Dec 28th

Questionable IP based url for Demo Ochan... →

Dec 28th

yay for $.015 hosting at rackspace cloud. Starting some testing there now.

Dec 28th

Reading some stuff on how HAProxy can rate limit and defend against DOS attacks (slowloris). Sounds like having an HAProxy in front of your application might be a requirement… even if it isnt used for load balancing, it seems awesome.

Dec 27th

Just found the term: Layer 7 Load Balancing. This is what I’m looking for in the load balancer for the production Ochan deployment. Layer 7 lets me do things like: Block requests to internal SOAP services Dispatch requests based on the http method (GET/HEAD/POST/…) redirect (302) requests for content I want to serve from a CDN without code changes; or to a squid cache.. RSS feeds...

Dec 27th

reverting all my bdb backup for the lulz code because leveraging services that do business rules for a straight backup and restore is tough.. none of the code was built to do it; and shouldn’t be built to do it.. making hacky backup/restore methods through the whole stack is fail. I need to look at the bdb tool set, i’m sure they have tools that will do low level merge and update an...

Dec 27th

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Everyone following me on LinkedIn just lost the game. I just lost the game.

Dec 27th

Using bdb as an export/backup format for the lulz. (ideally, this’ll be used for resharding and enabling replication on a non sharded or replicated environment)… (since bdb wont allow replication to be enabled at runtime. and my sharding code doesn’t handle repartitioning.)

Dec 26th

crazy headache.. want to pass out. lets see if I can sleep :/

Dec 26th

This week has been crazy for vivid dreams… like every single night has been an action movie. No wonder I’m still tired.

Dec 24th

How can you tell when you’re spending too much time on an ImageBoard like 4chan? You write your own far superior, fault tolerant, and scalable ImageBoard system that no one will ever use.

Dec 23rd

Taking tomorrow of to clean up my freaking apartment; and prepare myself for christmas day. That includes praying that a last package arrives, and wrapping things I need to wrap.

Dec 23rd

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I can’t believe I spent 10 minutes writing my own httpd file server; that builds directory listings…. grrr.. sftp to the rescue. thats OBVIOUSLY the better solution (since browser can actually speak FTP)

Dec 23rd

“~1 HOUR OF DOWNTIME COMING NOW-ISH.”

– Moot; taking down the most populated site on the tubes… with 0 notice.

Dec 23rd

Just got a city strike snake eyes @ toysrus 2 day sale. 2 gi joes for $9.99 yay. and then got 2 more little transformers for $9.99; microscope guy, and fork lift guy. also.. star wars han solo for my sister.. I think she’ll have 6 Harrison Ford figurines on her desk at work now…. which is awesome. (and of course got a storm tropper for me) *grin*

Dec 22nd

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I don’t believe I’ve said it here before; but, this month’s Wired magazine is the BEST issue i’ve ever received. (only subscribed for a year so far) From cover to cover, I wanted to read (and did read) every story/article in it.

Dec 22nd

New nerf longstrike CS-6 on sgnerf →

Dec 22nd

Thanks again 4chan /r/… people sourcing the internet better than anywhere else.

Dec 21st

apartment hunt 2010 starts very soon. Where should I move to?

Dec 21st

watching the audit tail on a day the government is closed is like watching paint dry.

Dec 21st

I want to do nothing today, or this week. fantastic.

Dec 21st

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