Techie

Am I happy with my current ISP?

Posted on March 3, 2010 at 6:28 am

I am not quite sure. The major instability problems I had a while ago seem to have been cleared up, but I still have the occasional outage.

For a while I was having a consistent 30 minute loss of service every Saturday morning at 4am. No clue if that still happens.

Current performance benchmark:

Speedtest Results

Fun error message

Posted on February 14, 2010 at 3:25 am

I was playing around on my web server tonight and used a quick tail command to view a logfile while I was in the wrong directory.

I ended up with an error message that I found a tad humorous (I do actually realize that my sense of what is funny may be different than most) :

# tail -f $(ls -c1rt logs/*.log | tail -1)
/bin/ls: logs/*.log: No such file or directory
tail: warning: following standard input indefinitely is ineffective

PLINQO and LINQ to SQL

Posted on June 10, 2009 at 8:56 am

Being an Oracle DBA, I am quite used to writing routines to generate code for me. On my latest project (a software re-write of an app into .NET / C# code), some consultants on the team recommended using CodeSmith.

We have moved our standard templates for triggers and packages to using CodeSmith, and now they are thinking about using PLINQO (http://plinqo.com) – I think I will have to take a serious look at it.

Tribute to Tetris

Posted on May 16, 2009 at 3:36 am

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