Just finished reading Enemy at the Gates, by William Craig. It’s about the World War II battle for Stalingrad (also made into a recent film, loosely-related, film). I seem to be enjoying grim histories at the moment, having recently finished the equally grim The Earth Shall Weep, about Native American history. The battle was one… Continue reading Enemy at the Gates
IOL looking for a new IT Manager
Yup, I’ve resigned from IOL. It’s been 5 great years, and it’s a sad time to go, as IOL is on the brink of what will hopefully be an excellent year, but it’s time to move on. Where to? Well, nowhere actually. I’ve been easing out of work for a while, working 3-days a week,… Continue reading IOL looking for a new IT Manager
Move to layerdtech
The move to layeredtech is finally complete, and was relatively painless. One thing IOL problems have taught me is to put downtime in perspective. The world doesn’t really end when there’s a glitch and 1000’s of people can’t read the news for a few minutes! So a few hours of the crowds being unable to… Continue reading Move to layerdtech
Mail & Guardian Blogspot picking up?
I haven’t had a look at the Mail & Guardian blogspot for a while, but from the looks of it traffic is on the up :). It’s Friday night after all, peak blogging time! When attempting to read a post: Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /var/www/htdocs/drupal1/includes/database.mysql.inc on line 31 Too many connections
How much memory can a 2.6 Linux kernel address, part 2
As a followup to this post, about my debate with MySQL support, they got back to me saying yes, after all, MySQL processes on 32-bit machines can go beyond 2.5GB. Here’s their response: Hi! Yes, you are right. In HIGHMEM mode, a process can go theoretically to 3 Gb. If you have seen 3 Gb,… Continue reading How much memory can a 2.6 Linux kernel address, part 2
Climate Change
According to research by climateprediction.net, climate sensitivities due to increased greenhouse gases will vary between 2 and 11 degrees C, much greater than the range of 2-6 degrees C previously accepted. There’re still so many vested-interest claims going around claiming that global warming is still a theory, not proven, no need to change our behaviour… Continue reading Climate Change
How much memory can a 2.6 Linux kernel address
Busy having a debate with MySQL support about the memory limit for processes under Linux 2.6. We have a shiny new database with 6GB RAM, and the question is how useful is this with a 32-bit processor. As far as I know, processes on a 2.6 kernel can address 4GB. (there’s a reference on kerneltrap).… Continue reading How much memory can a 2.6 Linux kernel address
Google user-specified ads
Jeremy Zawodny has picked up another brilliant innovation from Google – user-specified ads. Don’t like the Google ads you’re seeing? (for example the ad for premium elk meat next to my post about vegetarianism). Simple – change them! You can read more at Inside Google and see an example at Consumer Affairs. The best ad… Continue reading Google user-specified ads
Moving to layeredtech
This is an update to the post Moving to Circular Systems. Circular Systems took a bit long to arrange their US server, so Anique cancelled the order, and thanks to the advice from Aubrey and Jacques, we’re trying Layered Technologies. So far so good, the server has been promptly set up and things seem to… Continue reading Moving to layeredtech
Yellow tongues and Google diagnosis
I knew I shouldn’t have used the Internet for medical diagnosis. I have a yellow tongue at the moment (no, I won’t attach a picture), and some of the possible causes of this are quite unpleasant, to put it mildly. I’d rather just have carried on flossing more regularly, or cut down on the turmeric.