There was a lot I liked about werc, but just not enough time to build out properly, so it’s back to WordPress at least for this blog (for now).
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Back to Wordpress
Jere
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Back to Lighttpd
Jere
This site has been down a lot lately, and about to be down a bit longer.
Why? Well, nginx hasn’t been working out so well – or more specifically spawn-fcgi – it just keeps crashing. Nginx by itself is great – the memory footprint really is smaller and the config file is simple. If you only need to serve static files (like for an image server), you probably can’t beat it – but until there is something stabler for cgi support (for fcgi running PHP 5.3 there is / will be soon) – if I really want to run werc, I need to switch back to lighttpd for now.
And if lighttpd is “suckless” enough for Anselm, it ought to be good enough for me.
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Jere
Back up with nginx – learning my way around werc – might as well keep this up in the meantime.
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Jere
Switching from lighttpd/wordpress to nginx/werc – blog will be down for a little while.
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Oracle/Sun Analysis
Jere
I’m mostly concerned about MySQL, disappointed the IBM deal fell through, and sorry I didn’t own any JAVA stock this morning.
Nonetheless, Om’s analysis is the one I found the most thoughtful/informative, although not all that reassuring.
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Windows 7: I'm impressed
Jere
Jeremy Zawodny says Windows 7 is “snappy” on his T61 – but I wanted to go him one better.
I’m writing this post on a painfully dated IBM T42 (right, that means a pre-Lenovo Thinpad, circa 2004) and Windows 7 actually outperforms Ubuntu 8.10.
Repeat: Windows 7 is faster than Ubuntu 8.10 on 512MB of ram – that’s Vista – with Aero turned on – and it’s faster.
(No, I don’t have any benchmarks on this, but seriously) The boot time is actually obnoxiously faster – but Jaunty should take care of that.
Oddly (or appropriately?), I still tend to prefer a simple gnome desktop – Chrome on Windows 7 is tough to resist though.
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Windows 7 Beta Tommorrow
Jere
From the Windows blog -
On January 9th, the Windows 7 Beta will be available for Windows enthusiasts to download via the Windows 7 page on Windows.com. The Windows 7 Beta is going to be available download-only (we’re not sending out physical media) and available for a limited time to the first 2.5 million people who download the beta.
First 2.5 million – and no actual time I can find yet – so keep an eye out and get a jump on it, I guess.
I’m holding out some hope for this Windows – actually quite looking forward to trying it tomorrow.
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YouTube Live
Jere
It’s fun – not sure what I think – will there be a service?
But, for now it’s fun.
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Hello world!
Jere
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Randy's Desk
Jere
It speaks for itself.
