On Wednesday morning, a teenage boy from Alaska stood in a receiving line on an airport tarmac, being glad-handed by the potential next president of the United States - because he got his girlfriend pregnant. TV cameras were lined up in advance. The mind boggles. - Jesse Newland
This tutorial describes one approach to using Amazon EC2's Elastic Block Store (EBS) as a persistent storage mechanism for a production MySQL database server, including snapshot backup and restore. - Jesse Newland
Breakin is a stress-test and hardware diagnostics tool, designed to be run nearly 100% unattended. Has a built in SSH server for progress updates. Totally rad. - Jesse Newland
Details how TiVo's episode naming and numbering for NBC/USA/UHD's Olympics coverage makes it difficult to record only unique broadcasts. To add to the confusion, TiVo's provided 'Guru Guides' for individual sports/events (designed to simplify a situation like this) only record in SD, not HD. DVR FAIL - Jesse Newland
This experimental specification defines an XMPP extension for delegating access to protected resources over XMPP, using the OAuth protocol - Jesse Newland
HAProxy + maxconn 1 outperforms Nginx + fair by a longshot. Let the load balancing part of your stack handle request queuing, not mongrel. That's not "fair" by any means. - Jesse Newland
HAProxy + maxconn 1 outperforms Nginx + fair by a longshot. Let the load balancing part of your stack handle request queuing, not mongrel. That's not "fair" by any means. - Jesse Newland
