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Splinter Cell: Lightbulb Assassin

admin — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:51:30 +0000

So true. (You really have to have played Splinter Cell to understand this.)

Hilarious British Animal Voiceovers

admin — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:16:16 +0000

pg_reorg to the rescue

admin — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:26:03 +0000

Let’s say you have a huge table in postgres and the table file on disk is bloated because it contains old versions of rows or deleted rows. You really want to run VACUUM FULL to reclaim that space. However, you can’t afford a maintenance window so that the exclusive lock from VACUUM FULL won’t block queries on that table. pg_reorg brilliantly creates a new table without the bloat, and it swaps into place without blocking a bunch of queries.

http://www.depesz.com/index.php/2011/07/06/bloat-happens/

Super Mario Brothers theme song

admin — Tue, 31 May 2011 03:44:28 +0000

Um, I guess his NES was broken.

Webfonts

admin — Mon, 16 May 2011 05:22:42 +0000

This is a good comparison of the different services for using different fonts on your website. Google Web Fonts is the only completely free one, and it’s the only one I’ve used myself.

http://sprungmarker.de/wp-content/uploads/webfont-services/

Jellyfish Lake & Radiohead

admin — Thu, 12 May 2011 03:49:39 +0000

Sometimes I wish my life had a soundtrack, however, it would probably end up being white noise, since it’s not that exciting. It’s hard for me to believe that a place as surreal as Jellyfish Lake actually exists.

JELLYFISH LAKE PALAU from Sarosh Jacob on Vimeo.

Abbottabad only gets 3 stars

admin — Tue, 10 May 2011 04:17:55 +0000

On Google Maps, Osama Bin Laden’s Hideout Compound already has 1,381 reviews.

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=9294138184493326603&q=osama+bin+laden+hideout+pakistan

The fake review meme is also intertwined, since one of the Compound’s reviews asked if they got Osama’s stash of Tuscan whole milk, which has 1,262 reviews on Amazon. Another funny comment talked about sitting through a session on hideout timeshares.

SSD write cache is bad news

admin — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:57:28 +0000

The write cache does not have a battery, so you can lose data during a power outage, which is extremely important on a DB server. If you turn the write cache off, it becomes terribly slow.

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/03/02/ssd-xfs-lvm-fsync-write-cache-barrier-and-lost-transactions/

Windows 98 traffic higher than Windows 7 Phone traffic

admin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:57:11 +0000

That’s funny.

http://www.techspot.com/news/41988-windows-98-traffic-higher-than-windows-phone-7-traffic.html

Working like a dog

admin — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 04:33:06 +0000

I’m not sure where that expression comes from. Maybe, it’s because of Jesse in this video, because I’m sure my dog didn’t inspire the term.