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LinuxFest Northwest 2010: Apache Rewrites
Apache Rewrites — for Ninjas! This session is an overview of using Apache mod_rewrite, driven mostly by your interests and questions. Your Questions, Your Interests? The simple difference between rewrites and redirects. You can specify an redirection in a few ways, and they don’t need to be RewriteRules. You can use an Alias directive to…
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LinuxFest Northwest 2010: MySQL Buffet
MySQL Buffet This session covers topics in MySQL high availability and performance, centered mostly on your interests and questions. Your Questions? Your Interests? MySQL is a large topic and we can do a thumbnail overview followed by specific topics you’re interested in. I’ve listed the topics below in what I believe are the most important…
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Welcome to Earth Day, Week…Year?
April 22 is Earth Day! April 16 begins Earth Week! Eventually you and I and everyone will be so used to it really being Earth Day every day that we’ll actually look back and laugh that we had to actually promote such common sense one day out of the year…right?
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Using Freezers to Bank Energy?
I was listening to a recent Science Friday episode where the benefits of windpower were being debated. One of the drawbacks mentioned was that wind energy is intermittent, often present at off-peak periods-and there is no good way to bank electricity for later. Well, at a national scale. Solar installations, like the Luz generation plants…
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XP System Does a Dodge Monaco Ka-Boom!
Apparently, the Dodge Monaco was the cop car in the Blues Brothers movie that served Ellwood so well. It came to a catastrophic end, of course. My mom just had her seven year old Dell do a Dodge Monaco Boom on her: > I’m very glad that I kept the old machine running all the…
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64 Bit Windows Filesystem Voodoo
I was really baffled by why I couldn’t find a file in my editor. This article explained why. I ended up copying it out of that location, editing it, and copying it back.
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When NOT to Use a SAN?
The vast number of filesystems, distributed file systems, and network replication schemes available for Linux all come with learning curves and caveats. When does one actually want to avoid merely picking out an average SAN solution and go with a Linux oriented distributed storage solution like Gluster or NFS on DRBD?
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50% Female Tech Employees?
Enrolling women in technology has been an ongoing topic for quite a while. Various communities like Ubuntu Women and many other groups have are focused on women in technology. Scott Hanselman conducts a surprising interview with some women programmers in Egypt, showing an impressively equitable gender mix. Very inspiring!
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Human Energy in Picowatts
Episode 2 of Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics gives a really interesting perspective on how much power the cell and the human body generates. We, as animals, generate about 100W just standing. A cow is more like 950W. Each of our cells operates on about a picowatt. The discussion moves from that to examples of low…
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Coping with Loss of Affluence
This article on coping with loss of affluence was rather apropos of this weekend’s Transition Whatcom event. Basically, the summary points outlines that in a transitioning economy, walking is an important activity for first world economies to re-learn as it becomes more necessary for mere transit, the coping with the loss of status of having a…
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