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April 29, 2009

squid unable to cache small files

Filed under: Uncategorized — rogerdpack @ 7:45 pm

so…you turn squid’s cache on to

delay_parameters 1 256000/256000

should limit the Bandwidth to 256KB/sec, 256KB max. Not so! If you download files < 256K themselves, one at a time, squid will allow each download to download at top speed! Whoa. Unexpected.

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April 28, 2009

svn nfs stale file handle bad

Filed under: Uncategorized — rogerdpack @ 4:01 am

So…got that message once.

Only way to overcome it was to recheckout the current svn folder, then rename it over the top of the existing one (and of course check for modifications in the files).

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April 24, 2009

writing cocoa apps in windows (ruby)

Filed under: Uncategorized — rogerdpack @ 8:41 pm

Appears that there’s this

http://snipplr.com/view/2036/wxcocoadialog-dropdown-example-in-ruby/

and

http://code.google.com/p/wxcocoadialog/

so theoretically possible in windows? Or is this cygwin only?

Now to get rubycocoa to work with it…http://rubycocoa.sourceforge.net/HomePage

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April 22, 2009

demo c program that does nothing

Filed under: Uncategorized — rogerdpack @ 6:06 pm

here it is –hello world in C.


#include 
int main() {
  printf("helloworld");
  fprintf(stderr, "hello2");
  return 0;
}

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how to get the return value of the last executed command in windows dos prompt

Filed under: Uncategorized — rogerdpack @ 5:46 pm

echo %ERRORLEVEL% # even though ERRORLEVEL doesn’t show up when you run “set”

ref:

http://www.computing.net/answers/programming/capturing-return-value-in-batch-scr/14604.html

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April 21, 2009

faster copy

Filed under: Uncategorized — rogerdpack @ 5:28 pm

I wonder if disk copy from one disk to the same disk couldn’t be sped up somehow…

ex: read+ zip -> RAM until RAM full, THEN write all that out to disk all at once.

rinse, repeat.

fastish copy

anybody know of anything equivalent?

ref: http://www.ipmsg.org/tools/fastcopy.html.en

does rsync do something equivalent, perhaps, when used on local disk to same disk?

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how to increase the size of sennheiser headphones

Filed under: Uncategorized — rogerdpack @ 4:05 pm

Most of us who use sennheiser headphones (I being one who loves them) find that you really can’t use them all day for a working day–they clamp down too tightly on your head and you feel pain after a few hours.

Fix?

” Letting the headphones stretch while clamped on a basketball for several days or clamping them over a thick stack of books will help alleviate that issue for big-head types (like ourselves).”

from

http://www.headphone.com/guide/by-budget/40-80/sennheiser-hd-205.php

I knew there was an answer

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bluehost rails keepin’ it fresh

Filed under: Uncategorized — rogerdpack @ 2:19 pm

one of the (many) problems with hosting rails at bluehost is that you’re forced into fcgi. Not that fcgi is bad, per se–but you’re forced into using fcgi with the parameters they specify (which is, that your process, if unused for awhile, should die). This means that every time you visit the site in the morning, there’s a noticable few second delay. Actually not bad (almost feels like network lag), but it’s still there.

The fix? Request a page from your rails hosted site every 5 minutes

tool: cron

how: go to mydomain/cpanel, search for “cron” (it’s an icon in there somewhere), then add one something like

0,5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55 * * * * wget http://www.mydomain.com/something > /dev/null

ref: http://www.bluehostforum.com/showthread.php?t=8926

your page will never have a slow startup again

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