Recently I’ve been looking at ways to solve some of biodiversities’ long standing issues with LSIDs, which are, “Life Science Identifiers are a way to name and locate pieces of information on the web. Essentially, …
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UPDATE: posted my workaround code below, good feedback already from Ryan (djatoka dev) and I’ll be testing the proper fix on the server soon.
I’ve got a server that keeps filling up its disk space and failing to serve images after it gets to the file system full error message. First of all let me say, I don’t blame it in the least, if the admin (aka me) doesn’t do enough to secure the server enough disk space to do its job, I say, let me have it. But after I’ve set the suspect daemon to use a *reasonable* amount of space I stopped thinking of it as the culprit, so when this issue arose again, I looked elsewhere for the cause. Fast forward to today, the server’s file system filled up again, and refused to serve any more data, again, I totally understand where the server is coming from, if it doesn’t have enough disk space to do its job, it shouldn’t have to apologize to anyone; it’s all on the admin (again, aka, me), but what was going on? Read the whole story »
While looking for something else, (which is mainly when I find *other* interesting things) I found an article which included links for four free Linux eBooks. This is a great resource for anyone with …
The British comedy Red Dwarf has been a favorite of mine for many years, and this year it celebrates its 20th year anniversary. While they show hasn’t *constantly* been in production this fact is a …
So I’ve been using Fedora-commons for almost a year, first off, no it is NOT the Linux distribution, it is a digital repository used by libraries, museums, etc, worldwide to keep track of their digital …
I have an older Röyksopp cd, and Norwegian duo has everything you could want in an electronic outfit; driving beats, unobtrusive synthesized vocals topped by happy melodies to rule them. Of course if the video …
I’ve gone back and forth over the years configuring MySQL for optimal performance, and while I know I’m not there, I now have a new baseline to build from. From a post called Standard …
At the Biodiversity Heritage Library, we have replaced a proprietary jpeg2000 image server, that was straining under the load, with a new, open source jpeg2000 server, djatoka. Chris Freeland and Chris Moyers cover the …
“I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.“
George W. Bush, Washington DC, 12 May, 2008
* So I did some checking to get a source for this, …
It’s time (well, past time, but…) for my yearly list list covering the best music releases of the year, 2008. I continue the trend of discovering more music online through mp3 blogs, and social …
nginx
So back in January I had a post about HOWTO: log the user’s IP, not the proxy’s, in Lighttpd access log, but today I switched that system to run nginx (actually nginx has been running …
IPv6 is ready?
Tonight I did ran netstat (`netstat -plunt`) on my Debian server and saw that I had some ports listening via IPv6. It’s a shame IPv6 hasn’t caught on as it’s better than IPv4 …
The fact that Proposition 8 passed this last week in Califonia is a sad commentary on people’s morays and the discrimination that they still think is ok to pass on to others. Of course the …
In the early days of this blog I used to run it on Typo, which *was* a great Ruby on Rails blogging platform (at one time). Unfortunately the project stalled (for years) and I ended …
Here’s a great, recent News of the Weird article,”Roy Hollander filed a civil rights lawsuit against Columbia University in New York City in August, claiming that its “women’s studies” curriculum teaches a religion-like philosophy that …
With all the mergers of big companies, it’s important to remember ones that are…closer to our hearts, that’s right, beer. Today, Anheuser-Busch buys Rolling Rock beer brand, solidifying their stand as the biggest brewer …
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Since its introduction, my beef with the iPhone has been obvious; buying it ties you to AT&T, a company that violated the law, and the rights of its customers, by …
Here’s another new feature I’m implementing, Picture Of The Day. We’ll kick things off with this killer image, enjoy!
It’s time to start up a new feature, an outlet for my critical eye that I call things I don’t like, or TIDL for short. To kick things off I’ll start …
