Four short links: Tuesday, Nov 3rd 2009

3 11 2009
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Four Short Links, Oct 14, 2009

14 10 2009
  • Larry Ellison hates cloud computing – funny clip of Ellison lambasting the idea of clouds. Yes, really, clouds have been around for over a decade, we just didn’t know it (or realize it).
  • Dynamic general and slow query log before MySQL 5.1 – This is an interesting way of handling the slow and general query logs on pre-5.1 MySQL instances. We don’t need this on slow, but there’s been occasions that we’ve needed the general query log, but enabling it and disabling it requires a full restart of the service on 5.0 and earlier. You still take a performance hit because you’re always logging, but I would think it to be fairly minimized on modern fast hardware.
  • Watch out for your CRON jobs – Over at the MySQL Performance Blog, Peter Zaitsev gives some good guidelines on things to pay attention to when designing your cron jobs. Not just for databases. I like the idea of keeping historical run time information so you can see when large jumps in run time occur (which could be a problem.
  • How Did Danger Not Backup Its Servers? How Did Microsoft Allow Such A Failure? – Oy. A few days late on this one, but really? Total data loss from an upgrade. Scary. This is a reminder: we all test our backups, but how many of us test our restores?
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    Four Short Links: Thurs., October 1st, 2009

    1 10 2009
    • Your People – Rand in Repose: “Your People will piss you off because the relationship is genuine. They do not coddle and they do not spin. Consequently, Your People error-correct you in ways that others cannot.”
    • Wordle: ” Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.” This looks like a great way to make designs for tshirts or posters. Imagine doing these for your organization, covering all the words that describe your mission statement.
    • justniffer: a packet sniffer that outputs common log format style information on your packets. Nifty!
    • piwik: Someone’s gone and done it … an open source clone of Google Analytics.
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    Four Short Links: Tues., Sept 8th 2009

    8 09 2009
    1. Rand in Repose: Your People — Rand talks about the idea of Your People.

      “These are a strange lot of people you’ve discovered in a motley array of places because you were searching for them. [...] while Your People may be less work, they are harder people to have in your life. These are not people that let you sit in place, these are people who hold a mirror up to your [screw-ups], and who explain, in excruciating detail, exactly what you don’t want to hear. If they did not do these things, they would not be Your People.”

    2. Ars Technica: “Anonymized” data really isn’t—and here’s why not —

      As Ohm notes, this illustrates a central reality of data collection: “data can either be useful or perfectly anonymous but never both.”

      The government hasn’t created 1984. The consumers have.

    3. Dan Gilbert asks, “Why are we happy?” — Cool TED talk about how the “psychological immune system” works to make happiness … well … work … even if the plans we made never come together.
    4. Seth Godin’s Blog: Achievable avalanche opportunities —

      “The specific jackpot, sure we’ll sign up for that, but amorphous and ethereal is largely beyond our ability to imagine and sacrifice for.”

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