i.came.to.get.down

"XML is like violence — if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it"

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 18:09:31 -0600

“XML is like violence — if it doesn’t solve your problems, you are not using enough of it”

- http://nokogiri.org/

32GB Vertex Raid0 vs 60GB Vertex2 Raid0

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:46:29 -0600

Yes they are faster. Yes I can “feel” a difference. To be frank, things were stupid fast before, now it’s just ridiculous.

claire:~# echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches ;time dd of=/dev/null if=/var/lib/mysql/ibdata1 count=2000 bs=512k
2000+0 records in
2000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 2.05422 s, 510 MB/s

real    0m2.063s
user    0m0.001s
sys     0m0.376s

Real Benchmarks: http://global.phoronix-test-suite.com/index.php?k=profile&u=msch-29322-25051-20258

eats

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:07:18 -0600

eats

precision in statistics

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:07:18 -0600

precision in statistics

<3 ngrep

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:55:00 -0600

“I wonder what memcached is up to…”

ngrep -W none -T -d any "^(get|set|delete|END|STORED|VALUE|DELETED)" port 11211 | awk '{print $1 " " $2}'

“Thanks ngrep!”

That old copier still holds a picture of your backside

Tue, 18 May 2010 22:02:56 -0600

That old copier still holds a picture of your backside

Chromium in Debian Unstable/Testing

Tue, 18 May 2010 15:38:28 -0600

If you’re unsatisfied with how fast your current browser eats up all your memory, you should probably be running Mr. Leaky himself, chromium-browser. Luckily, he’s fast enough to make us forget about all that wasted memory. But what about profiles and storing our cache in ram? Read on!

First off, let’s install this bad boy:

echo "" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "#chromium" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu lucid main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu lucid main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 4E5E17B5
apt-get update  && apt-get install chromium-browser

Sweet! The following is my launcher script that enables profiles and moves the cache dir to ram:

#!/bin/bash
PROFILE=$1
if [ ! $PROFILE ]
then
  PROFILE="Main"
fi

DATA_DIR="/home/msch/.config/chromium/$PROFILE"
REG_CACHE="$DATA_DIR/Default/Cache"
MEM_CACHE="/tmp/chrome-$PROFILE-cache"

# maybe we're creating a new profile?!
if [ ! -d $DATA_DIR ]
then
  mkdir -p $REG_CACHE
fi

# maybe we just rebooted, let's make sure we move our cache dir to ram!
# /tmp gets mounted tmpfs around here...
if [ ! -d $MEM_CACHE ]
then
  if [ -h $REG_CACHE ]
  then
    rm -f $REG_CACHE
    mkdir $MEM_CACHE
  else
    mv $REG_CACHE $MEM_CACHE
  fi
  ln -s $MEM_CACHE $REG_CACHE
fi

# now can we finally start?
/usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser --restore-last-session --user-data-dir=$DATA_DIR

Double sweet! Name it something cool (chrome), make it executable (chmod +x chrome), and drop it in your path (mv chrome /usr/local/bin). Now we can create new profiles and launch existing profiles with reckless abandon.

chrome reader
chrome dev
chrome anydangthingiwant

Triple sweet.

"When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes..."

Sat, 15 May 2010 21:37:40 -0600

“When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. Your tastes only narrow and exclude people. so create.”

- Why the Lucky Stiff

Installing redshift with vidmode enabled in debian

Thu, 06 May 2010 19:27:00 -0600

Why? Cause the packages in testing don’t have vidmode enabled by default. (You only care about this if you don’t have RandR support.)
No, really, why? Cause I want to stop going to bed so late. I’d also prefer not to die from cancer. Maybe this will help…

apt-get source gtk-redshift
cd redshift-1.2/
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
cd ..
dpkg -i gtk-redshift_1.2-2_all.deb redshift_1.2-2_amd64.deb

Now, how best to enjoy?

gtk-redshift -l 38.9:104.8 -t 5500:3400 -m vidmode &

More reading:
http://jonls.dk/redshift/
http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/research.html

Windows/Mac:
http://www.stereopsis.com/flux/

Pot, meet kettle: a response to Steve Jobs' letter on Flash

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:58:39 -0600

Pot, meet kettle: a response to Steve Jobs' letter on Flash

The Last Psychiatrist: Why Is There So Much Pollen?

Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:44:07 -0600

The Last Psychiatrist: Why Is There So Much Pollen?

Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic: case report -- Rogozov and Bermel 339: b4965 -- BMJ

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:37:12 -0600

Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic: case report -- Rogozov and Bermel 339: b4965 -- BMJ

Administrative Debris

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:56:30 -0600

Administrative Debris

PaNu - PāNu Blog - “Cardio” Causes Heart Disease.

Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:10:07 -0600

PaNu - PāNu Blog - “Cardio” Causes Heart Disease.

Canadians Also Win Gold For Synchronized Peeing [Youreinbusiness]

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:27:38 -0700

Canadians Also Win Gold For Synchronized Peeing [Youreinbusiness]

Video

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:52:18 -0700

unhappyhipsters: Both considered this “quality time.” (Photo:...

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:04:57 -0700

unhappyhipsters:

Both considered this “quality time.”

(Photo: Elsa Young; Dwell,May 2008)

Rise in solar activity all but certain to mess with GPS

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:12:50 -0700

Rise in solar activity all but certain to mess with GPS

"The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights..."

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:58:48 -0700

“The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.”

- Massimo Vignelli - Helvetica

Offline book lending costing us bazillions...

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:20:00 -0700

Offline book lending costing us bazillions...