The drupal site has a page on tuning server performance. While a few of the tips are specific to Drupal, the majority of them apply to anyone who’s using a LAMP server. Understanding LAMP performance. This LAMP performance study revealed that Apache is bandwidth limited, PHP is CPU limited, and MySQL is memory limited and […]
The dreadful allocation process for World Cup tickets is being looked into by the Observer. Suffice to say, and it should be no suprise, that the policy used by fifa benefits sponsors and the wealth at the expense of footie fans. Did you now, Coca-Cola, Budweirser, and McDonalds have one in six of all tickets
Sony is collaborating with Arsenal to equip their stadium with high-definition screens around their new stadium. I could see how these would be useful at a baseball or american football stadium, what with all the stoppages and down time during the game. I guess Arsenal fans can enjoy the high-def replays and keep up with
The NY Times has an article about Sunil Gulati, who’s taking the helm at the US Soccer Federation. Besides being an accomplished economist, he’s been involved with soccer from an early age, playing, coaching, and refereeing though high school. They get him to talk pretty frankly about the issues he has to deal with, not
D’oh, I had a huge post about my further experiences with Google Calendar but my dog ate it because my session timed out (yes its a bug I should fix, but generally I dont’ write very long posts). The summary, I like Google Calendar. I imported my ics file from Mozilla Sunbird with only
Google Calendar has launched if you want to check it out. There is also an overview of the features available. Will this be a compelling calendaring solution? After looking it over and checking out the website, I think it might be for me. I’ve setup DAV on apache before so that I can have a
Ronaldinho is a magician with the ball, or is he? (view the videos!)
Via BoingBoing, I ran across this item, about how a supporter of the DMCA and DRM technologies found he couldn’t access 2 years worth of television programs on his own video recorder. For those who aren’t familiar with Mr. Giovanetti’s work, he’s a frequent and pugnacious commentator on intellectual property issues, and an avowed supporter
I followed through and created the t-shirt, you can get yourselft one at my zazzle store. This is the “Original Illegal Immigrants” t-shirt.
Via Cafe Hayek comes this link to some basic facts about Latinos. I’d love to write more about the current immigration debate, but so far all it has inspired me to do is want to make a t-shirt with a picture of either the founding fathers or some pilgrims with the caption “The Original Illegal