Monthly Archives: September 2002

Galeon 1.2.6 released! Woo! Must go take a look!

Google Search: “go to hell” – check out the first link! Didn’t Google do something similar a few years ago?

Roland Tanglao’s Weblog looks like a good source of developer information.

o r g a n i c a – another weblog ecology site.

Rasmus explains why PHP support for Apache 2 is still “experimental”.

Updating the firmware on your Scan SC-2500 DVD player.

Post-processing outdoor digital colour photographs. The hints on using the curves tool worked great on one of my own photos!

How the dinosaurs really died out

Must take a look here soon.

Great! I heard this a few days ago, but here’s the Register’s take on the new way to exploit Outlook Express. Using this will get past even the draconian protection I have at work 🙁

Google’s Original Sin

Yes, Open Source has bugs too, but I still trust it. Unfortunately when you advocate something to the belittlement of other choices you have to live with the consequences.

Why Ice cream tastes so good after a breakup.

How sleepy is your MySQL server?
Here’s a simple way to find out:

$ mysqladmin pro \
| awk '/Sleep/ {a+=$12} END {print a/NR}' \
| sed 's/\.[0-9]*$//'

This will print out a single figure, the average time sleeping MySQL processes spend asleep.
If that figure is high then maybe it’s time to follow some of the hints Jeremy posted, and linked to below and reduce the number of idle processes on your server!

Our trip to Gugan Barra, 15th September 2002 – More pics from the new camera. These reduced resolution pictures really don’t do the camera justice! I’m getting a few of these printed!

The above gallery was created with The GIMP Gallery, a nice plugin to the Gimp which’ll create your gallery and allow you to manipulate the images as you go. BINS was recommended to me by someone on #gimp but I got tired of installing Perl modules (yes, yes, that’s what CPAN is for.. blah!) and didn’t bother trying to track down the Undefined subroutine &main::bsd_glob error that came up when I ran it. This may be how to fix it.

Last week I started monitoring what each MySQL process on our server is doing, wether it’s sleeping or running. Results are startling. Most processes are sleeping! In timely manner, Jeremy Zawodny was looking at the same problem, although his was a more pressing need (our server is still lightly loaded). He explains how to reduce the load by using wait_timeout and thread_cache_size so I must try that in the next few days.
phplib docs on db connections.
faqts.com on db connections.
RedHat docs on same.
Jeremy didn’t have a need to modify the wait_timeout way back in January..

Here’s a rather interesting weblog..

Jeremy pointed at this yahoo story about 9/11 and American patriatism.

The science behind the Mexican Wave.

I had forgotten that Karlin had a weblog. She has a comment on media reporting of 9/11, as does an Irishwoman directly affected by the event.

I may install gnome2 to install Straw, a “Desktop news aggregation for GNOME.”

Marketing people: Trust-based Advertising.

OpenSSL/Apache worm. “Linux Slapper” they call it. I wonder do they know slapper has a certain other meaning in Ireland.. heh

There’s a privacy hole in Mozilla!