Catchy title eh? I have decided that all of the issues of global warming can be attributed to programmers. Lazy programmers. “What is he talking about?” I hear shouted from the fourth row. I am talking about the extremely common mantra of “just throw hardware at the problem”. Instead of [...]
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Programmers are causing global warming
January 12th, 2007 · 4 Comments
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New scam: Blackmail for bandwidth
January 18th, 2006 · No Comments
What non-brain dead individual would sucumb to this blackmail? I recommend all Bell South customers look for alternate broadband access.
Good for google, they aren’t biting.
[tags]Google, Broadband, Blackmail[/tags]
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The silliness of open recursive DNS servers
January 16th, 2006 · 1 Comment
It always amazes me how many open recursive DNS servers there are in the world. An open recursive server is a DNS server that does recursive queries for ANYONE that queries them. Why is this bad? Well, for one they open you up to DNS reflector attacks (more on those in another [...]
Tags: DDoS · Scalability · The Right Way (TM)
When good ideas go bad
January 16th, 2006 · 1 Comment
Generally, you would think a RAID monitoring solution would be a good thing. Well, sometimes good things can go VERY bad.
I was working on trouble shooting a performance problem with high traffic Oracle server. Every 8-10 seconds, I/O wait on the machine would spike to about 90-95%, causing all the Oracle processes to [...]
Tags: Scalability · The Right Way (TM)
How can so many people outgrow their data centers?
December 17th, 2005 · 2 Comments
This post on slashdot is comical to me. How can so many large (and well funded) companies need to move data centers? This smells like either: (a) An excuse for hardware problems, or (b) Their app is so horribly unscalable, they need a bazillion servers to handle the load. Unfortunately, it’s all [...]
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