Tag: sysadmin
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Loving Git
I suppose this must be the zillionth post about how Git is so cool, but I’ll tell you what I love about it: Ultra fast commits. Coming from subversion, typing commit and getting a prompt back instantly is so surprising that you double check the first few times. Branching! God, you don’t realize how much […]
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dtach, a brilliant daemonizer
Most people use GNU screen (or equivalent) to daemonize processes. There is a better alternative called dtach which should become the definitive way to run a process in the background as a daemon. Installing dtach is easy. If you’re on gentoo, it is a simple: $ emerge dtach dtach –help provides the following output: Usage: […]
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EC2-like instances with Slicehost
Virtual hosting and infrastructure is coming up in a big way, and Amazon’s EC2 is leading the pack. However, there doesn’t exist a comprehensive & provably scalable system for deploying applications to such a stack yet: the components are in place or being developed (SimpleDB or equivalent, EC2 and S3) but the crucial connecting layer […]
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Deploying JAR/JAD content via WAP
An easy way to deploy JAR/JAD content on all phones with GPRS is to create a WML site and provide a link to the JAR file that you have. [As an aside, the whole J2ME scene is so fragmented that it sucks completely. Let’s hope Android sorts it out.] Here’s how you go about setting […]
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Kai Voigt's MySQL talk
Condensed: One gora, a madrassi and two longdas (of whom only one deigns to be online) attended Kai Voigt’s MySQL Cluster talk at ValueOne today. Here are my thoughts: First off, the talk was pretty interesting, and any talk that has a live demo in it has my vote on being useful and down to […]