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Links of the Day: June 18, 2008

Eight Black – Going. Going. Nearly Gone. “To put this into some sort of basic perspective, if you had purchased $1000 worth of BlueFreeway stock exactly 1 year ago, that would be worth the princely sum of $42 as of close of play today.” Virtual Geek – So, how **EXACTLY** does VM HA’s admittance algorithm […]

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Links of the Day: June 17, 2008

smh.com.au – Cut fuel price, say voters Why do people think the government should intervene in the supply/demand determined pricing of a scarce resource? Did everyone fail economics 101? Acer Aspire One notebook review “if Acer wants it to be seen as anything other than a mini-notebook it needs to quickly launch its connected version […]

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Virtualisation Buzzwords

So I was thinking a bit more about virtualisation buzzwords after my discovery the other day. “Virtualisation 1.0” appears to be the concept of virtualising physical hosts onto a defined set of infrastructure. Whether the VM farm is in-house or outsourced is largely irrelevent. What is important for buzzword compliance is that there is still […]

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Firefox 3 Download Day

“Set a Guinness World Record, Enjoy a Better Web. Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do is get Firefox 3 during Download Day to help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours – it’s that easy.”

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Links of the Day: June 15, 2008

Virtualization 2.0 So I only came across this buzzword for the first time today. A quick Google search and it became clear that it’s been thrown about for almost two years. Why not call a spade a spade and bang on about “infrastructure virtualisation” instead? Rolling Stone – The Battle For Facebook Short on technical […]

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Links of the Day: June 14, 2008

smh.com.au – ACCC thwarts eBay PayPal plan. A win for common sense! “The [ACCC] has flagged its intention to scuttle a plan by online auctioneer eBay to force its Australian users on to a PayPal-only payments system. Citing concerns about the ‘anti-competitive effect’ of the proposal…” Coding Horror: ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers Be sure […]

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Links of the Day: June 13, 2008

37signals – Git smart: How we’re using Git to track our source code. I’ve been using bzr a lot lately but every man and his dog and their source code seems to be switching to git. Must take a deeper look one of these days. Changing the IP-address of an ESX host and HA – […]

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Daily Links Automated

As can be seen from the previous post I’m back! The best bit is that post was created automatically. I use del.icio.us to bookmark interesting things I read day to day. It has support for daily links posted to your blog but that requires XML-RPC support which Blosxom doesn’t have out of the box. So […]

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Links of the Day: June 12, 2008

del.icio.us/help/api/posts Blosxom doesn’t have XML-RPC support by default so I’ll need to script an API call to download daily bookmarks. Aaron Straup Cope / Net-Delicious – search.cpan.org Someone may have already done the heavy lifting for me! Publishing Links With Perl, by Jeffrey Veen Just in case I get lazy and need a cheat sheet… […]

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Some helpful addons for Apache and PHP…

Jdub points out a couple of packages which I’m off to install right now. I’ve always redirected to a “one true” FQDN on my websites by using an extra virtualhost container and a redirect rule. libapache2-redirtoservname to the rescue! I don’t use as much PHP as a I used to but I’m sure that what […]

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