Year: 2008
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Eclipse, Subversion, and SSH_OPEN_ADMINISTRATIVELY_PROHIBITED
If you use the Subclipse plugin to access subversion repositories from Eclipse using the ssh+svn protocol, you may see errors like this: SSH_OPEN_ADMINISTRATIVELY_PROHIBITED when you try to do too many things at once. When I tried switching to JavaHL instead of SVNKit, I got different errors, so that was out. Adding this line to my…
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Apache mod_deflate and mod_cache issues
The Problem: Using Apache mod_deflate and mod_disk_cache (or other mod_cache) together can create far too many cached files. The Background: Apache is a web server with many different modules you can load in to enhance it. Two common ones are mod_deflate and mod_cache (or mod_disk_cache). Mod_deflate compresses content that is sent to the webserver using…
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Why I Won’t Deal With TransAmerican
Generally I’d never post about a negative business interaction. We’ve all worked with bad recruiters, bad employers, bad contractors, and so on. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt, and I don’t want to bad-mouth anyone. That said, TransAmerican has pushed my limits too far. These guys are some sort of ATG…
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10MinuteMail Performance Improvement
After having a clearly better approach to mail delivery pointed out to me by a friend yesterday, I pushed a new version of 10MinuteMail out last night. End users shouldn’t notice anything different, but behind the scenes the mail acceptance and delivery is MUCH higher performing. There should be less incoming mail delays, slow pages,…
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The Move.
We bought a house in Chelmsford, MA, outside of Boston. We moved 3,000 miles from Seattle. We’re settling into a new house. I keep meaning to write a big post about it, but I’m not sure I’ll ever get that done. So here are the high-lights: Finding and buying a house from 3,000 miles away…
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Airport Security Measures Don’t Work. Really??? :)
This is a GREAT article about how useless all the post-9/11 airport security measures are. http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811/airport-security