It’s been a well over 2 years since I visited our co-location. Can’t say I have missed it. So this Friday we had some urgent work that needed to be done in l3 and since I didn’t want to wait another week I decided to join one of our system admins to do it late Friday night.
Remind never to leave at 5 on a Friday to drive into NYC. The traffic on the gwb was brutal. By the time we got to the place it was 8. The work was fairly straightforward needed to move 2 servers and reconfigure 1. So by about 10 we were done. R had decided to join us for the trip to the city and while I was working had walked around.
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PHP include and lstat64
lstat64 or stat is not a slow system call. On most enterprise system it takes 0.000024 seconds. The issue is that when you have a software system which uses a lot of includes you could have ~10000 calls for a simple page.
Just take a look at the strace Continue reading “PHP include and lstat64”
New Phone
After 4 broken, overused blackberry phones. R and I finally
decided to switch to a iPhones. The switch was fairly straightforward, walk into the apple store, choose the phones and go through a 10 min registration process. By the time we walked out of the store the numbers had switched and we were able to download apps. By the end of the train ride back home I had downloaded the apps I wanted and had my email setup.
By the next day had all my music And Nike pod running (thanks to R) setup.
In all the switch is going well. I have most things I needed setup and sending emails is not as bad as I thought it would be.
Different software
I finally got around to switching the software I use for my website. I have now gone through 4 different CMS/blog software (drupal, joomla, geeklog, wordpress) . I guess coming from a technical background and being more than anything inquisitive of what these different software offer I feel driven to try them. It also provides good research/ideas for my own work.
So I finally have switched to wordpress. For the moment this will have to do, since like everyone else I would imagine I don’t like to switch the software I use everyday.