Monthly Archives: August 2006
sql vs. sql
Once again, UPHPU has had a minor stir about which database is faster / better / stronger, PostgreSQL or MySQL. All fanboyism aside, who really cares? You want to know the way to *really* speed up your database? Normalization is … Continue reading
Filed under Databases
planet status
Here’s another status update report. As far as Planet Gentoo goes, there’s really not much to say. Things have been plugging away well. I have a few bugs I need to tend to, but nothing severe. I just noticed this … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, Planet Larry
a small comics trip
This entry is going to be a short little ditty since I’m at home being sick, and I can’t really think straight. I did want to at least get a small note up about this, though. I read Scott McCloud’s … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, Entertainment
gentoo treecleaners status
Alec Warner (antarus) posted a good email on the gentoo-dev mailing list about how we rarely hear about updates from some teams. Since QA was one of them, I thought I’d give a quick ping on what I’m working on … Continue reading
nova
For the first time in my life, I saw an episode of Nova on PBS last night. It was great. Nova is one of those things that I always knew I would enjoy if I ever sat down and figured … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, Entertainment
do you ever get the feeling …
… that no matter how much stuff you know, there is still a ton of stuff you don’t know? Case in point, I’ve been working on writing ebuilds tonight, and it can be some incredibly difficult stuff. First I started … Continue reading
Filed under Computers
planet larry: with love from germany (and austria)
One of the really cool things I like about Planet Larry is that we pull in feeds from bloggers all around the world. Obviously that was the general idea to start with, but to see it in action is just … Continue reading
Filed under Gentoo, Planet Larry
compiling a kernel on suse
This whole week and part of last one, I’ve been helping my good friend Scott (the Known Master of Time, Space, and Suse) figure out how to compile a custom kernel. He was installing Suse 10 on a server, and … Continue reading
Filed under Computers
random passwords
I needed to write a random password generator today, and instead of bothering to search for some code that I could copy and paste, I just whipped up my own real quick. Then I got thinking about how all those … Continue reading
Filed under Computers
planet larry: splits, free blogs, new backend
Well, already it looks like splitting Planet Larry up into on-topic and off-topic feeds might be a good idea. Bah. I had really hoped I wouldn’t have to do all that extra work, but I think it would be very … Continue reading
Filed under Computers, Gentoo, Planet Larry
