I was reading Chris Pirillo’s blog tonight, catching up on some stuff, and came across this: Five Ways Vista is better than OS X? where he gives his side of a blog article by Preston Galla’s article (by the same name)

Chris claims he is tired of the bickering between OS X and Windows users (as is just about everyone else) and tries to counter-argue the points brought up by Preston, and I couldn’t help but throw my hat in the ring of fire too! I’m going to throw my comments inline with Chris Pirillo’s commentary. Read more »

Posted: April 10th, 2008 under Commentary.
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I don’t get a whole lot of traffic on my blog, and I generally don’t really have too much useful information, so when someone stumbles across here, they usually hit back pretty quick. But how do people get here? Well, according to Google Analytics, they get here by looking for porn. Lots and Lots of foreign porn. The internet is a strange place indeed.

Posted: April 7th, 2008 under Commentary.
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The website, http://openlettrs.com (note the misspelling, done because openletters was taken) is now up in a pre-beta state. It should work for the most part, but it is incomplete. Expect changes rolling in in the next few weeks.

Posted: April 6th, 2008 under Projects.
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http://rickrollthemets.com/

The New York Mets are allowing people to vote for what sing-a-long song they will play during the eighth inning of their final season at Shea Stadium.

They did not include Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” as an option, but they included an “Other:” field for people to suggest a different song.

Posted: April 6th, 2008 under Commentary.
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I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to scale policyd to about 65,000 email boxes (12m-ish emails a day). Here is our current setup

load balancers (x2): pIII/xeon 550mhz setup in failover and dns round robin (so both share load, but if one dies, the other takes over

policy servers (x3) 450mhz sparc processors with 3g ram running policyd-sf

mysql server (x1) 2.7ghz celron processor with 2g ram running mysql 5.0.51a

all are running freebsd 6.2 (with the exception of the mysql server, which is freebsd 7) and are all hooked up to a 100mbps adtran 1524.

we have 4 more of the sunfire servers that we are waiting to get loaded. and are planning on replacing the loadbalancers with 2 sun netra t1’s.

we’ve run into alot of problems scaling this; it seems to be related to the database, though. I am far from an expert in database administration, however, and most of what i can do seems to be a ‘tweek it until it’s less broke’.

Errors we see are mostly server configuration errors, but we also see slow (10+sec) response time when trying to telnet to the policyd-sf port (10031)

any help would be appricated, and if anyone knows a better way, let me know, i have an open mind.

Posted: April 5th, 2008 under Projects.
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