It has been awhile since I followed up on my power savings story. Although not so much as a followup, I am glad to see others starting to blog about these issues too. This entry "How much energy do I waste?" is a well written piece and has some good links in too.
A year ago today, a senseless shooting at Dawson College, in Montreal Quebec unfolded. A few students were injured. One student died. On September 19th last year I posted a short poem to the family and friends of Anastasia on another site I work on.
Have you ever thought about using gzip compression on Apache? Well, think no more and do. It is well worth it as many people will point out. After playing with it, and breaking things, and fixing…
If you are getting a 'collect: premature EOM: unexpected close' in your mail logs, or if you have people complaining that they cannot send email to your server and you have this error, then I might…
In our bathroom we have a shower with one of those sophisticated temperature balancing Moen tap units. After all, we wouldn't want to scald the kids while they were bathing if someone else in the…
Well, a week has passed since I've posted the last segment in this store, and I have my consumption usage for my computer set up. With normal usage, my entire computer set up, not counting my large…
Well, it's been a little longer than a couple of days, but as promised here is the second installment of my Kill-A-Watt story. Those of you just tuning in, I bought a Kill-A-Watt meter. Basically you…
No no, this is not an article about how much land fill is being created by Apple. Nor is this about how much toxins are being dumped into our soil by Apple. This is Part I of a blog on the power consumption of my computer. Why am I doing this? Simple: I bought a new toy!
Just a quick entry here. I keep forgetting how to reset a mysql slave server from the master, without disrupting the operations on the master server. Something silly that doesn't stick in my head, so…
For a couple of years now I have been using Spamassassin with great success. Over time I occasionally would teach Spamassassin what spam is with the 'sa-learn --spam mboxdata' command. It has been…