Recently we’ve seen an explosion of uncapped accounts entering the market. We’ve also seen that they are typically horribly slow in comparison to capped accounts – and if one goes and reads most of the acceptable use policies it becomes clear that they are in fact not uncapped, but rather, severely shaped capped accounts.
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Capped, Uncapped and Unmetered
July 4th, 2010
Quasar – using git to manage your reports
June 29th, 2010So after a recent minor bug I got mailed a new report.xml file … and now have to sift through the changes manually, or do I?
I realized that had I had an “upstream” git repository from which the changes came, I would simply have been able to “merge” this into my existing reports. And then came the idea … and then the simplification
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Soccer Fever and those (horrid) Vuvuzelas
June 18th, 2010So I got stuck on some mathematical calculations to get some multi-level paging system done. And getting the breakdowns right. And someone discovered http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/ … well, some may recall the blue-bulls hack we pulled on google a whilst back. Well, by now I reckon you can add the two together.
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bash file descriptors, pipes and … lockf.
June 14th, 2010Bash and long-standing file descriptors is a pain, to put it politely. For example, I’d like to spawn a sub-process into which I can “write” stuff at arbitrary points in time by doing echo fneh >&4 … sounds simple enough right? But how to spawn that sub process?
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