I don’t necessarily agree with the last comment about the racism of the tea bag movement, but the rest of this speech is right on. Everyone hates taxes but loves all the stuff they get from the government, time to cancel the credit cards.
Apparently there is a limit on the filename length when deleting files. This error just popped up on my machine at work. I wonder how it existed on my hard drive in the first place. Its also 2010 and I can’t have a million characters in my filename if I wanted to?
I was once again charged with a monthly service fee on my Citibank Savings account, it earns a generous 0.25% interest rate. The problem is that instead of taking the end of month or end of cycle balance to determine whether to charge a fee they take the average balance for the month. I dipped below that one day by transferring $200 to another account while making a deposit for $202.78 the same day. At the end of the month I was over the $500 minimum but that didn’t matter. Since it took a day for them to process the deposit, but not the transfer, I get dinged. Talk about a customer focused business, its all about making things tilt in some inane ways to their favor. I really need to get on the phone and get this sorted out and finally walk in to my branch and cancel my account to go over to my credit union. I don’t really want to get charged $6.50 every month when I have $500 dollars in a Savings account earning 0.25% interest. The insanity! But I guess that’s how they make their money, by these weird practices to rip off their customers.
And hilarious. Any interviews I find with him are very entertaining. On Conan. Long live Conan:
Indexing a repository in Subversion takes a very long time. Especially if you have the Subversion repositories stored on an NFS and the size is over 15 gigs. Below are some performance improvements that worked for the repositories I’ve dealt with and some workarounds that might not have been previously documented.
For performance, if you have the repository on an NFS share that is also pointed to by the serving mechanism you should duplicate the repository locally using svnsync. This helps remove some of the overhead when dealing with the live filesystem on the NFS share.
Additionally, using PostgreSQL or MySQL in place of HSQLdb is always helpful! The new versions support these external databases, this reduces CPU usage immensely.
If you have a ton of code (who doesn’t?), tag versions, then remove the versions at some point in a single merge you’ll have to reduce the block size of the repository as it will eat a lot of Memory as it indexes all the files that have been deleted.
If you run into the problems with certain revisions not being indexed and the scanner getting hung in an infinite loop, and get exceptions like this:
com.cenqua.fisheye.rep.DbException
com.cenqua.fisheye.rep.RepositoryClientException
com.cenqua.fisheye.util.VisitorException
com.cenqua.fisheye.rep.DbException
sun.io.MalformedInputException
What you need to do, in Linux anyway, is set the LANG environment variable to UTF-8 and restart the Fisheye server. I had this problem and it took forever to find a solution to it. The environment variable was previously set to: UTF-8.en_us on the server I was dealing with.
I host this server with another person and we’ve been running low on disk space every couple of months and had to jump in and clear up some web logs. This has been happening for years. So I had the bright idea of last night stopping the server and expanding the space of the main drive. It appears our host had given us some extra space so it looked perfect. I shut down the system and started expanding the drive. After waiting 20 minutes I eventually fell asleep. I awoke at 2 am to find myself sleeping with the laptop and lights on. The laptop had lost juice (or the will to stay on) and needed a recharge. But I fell asleep again before going to recharge it, I wanted to rest my eyes for a minute or two more. But in the end the person I host with started the server and I checked and started the Apache server in the morning. Now all is well. Next time I’ll be sure to get started earlier or wait until the weekend.
I recently upgraded my computer to take advantage of a great deal at Fry’s. Plus the darn thing was running slow sluggishly even after upgrading the RAM to 6 gigs. I upgraded from an Athlon X2 3200+ to:
Intel Core i7 860
MSI X58 Pro-E Motherboard
6GB OC-Z DDR3 Ram
ATI Radeon 5770 1gb From XFX
Windows 7 Professional x64
When first assembled everything seemed fine. I ran memtest86+ to make sure the ram and everything was fine. I ended up getting a bad stick of Ram and had to send in an RMA to get it replaced. I will probably never buy OCZ Ram again, it seems so sketchy after my previous encounters with them. In any case, the computer is running much much better now and seems generally more responsive. I can run multiple Virtual Machines without problem whereas previously it’d slow down for the first and struggle with anything more than one. But I’ve got a small problem; see, the video card apparently has a problem that ATI is looking into (I will post my sources later) whereas the graphics are a bit glitchy and will eventually cause the computer to lock up and gray screen. This is really unfortunate because its been two weeks since the last revision of drivers and I’m currently stuck with a malfunctioning computer. I found a workaround though that might not work for everyone. I noticed the problem when running fullscreen 1920×1200 on my 24″ monitor but not at lower resolutions. When the screen was filled the top part of the screen would get random glitches/refresh problems and after about a day of running it actually crashed on my. I lowered the resolution to 1920×1080 and besides the black bars at the top and bottom of my screen everything is running well. So that might work if you have the same problem. Now to hope they fix this issue in the next driver release…
Update! The recent drivers fixed the problems. Now I’m back to full resolution without flicker and no crashes (yet).
