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Category Archives: WTF
Reboot
Last night on our flight back from Houston, after boarding the airplane, the captain comes on the speaker and sad there was going to be a delay. There was an equipment malfunction and that the normal procedure to resolve the … Continue reading
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ok…just kidding…no idea what’s up with the syslog process
Just an update, I have no idea what’s causing the syslog process to hog all the cpu. It appears to be related to the periodic daily task, but not sure which one..
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syslog consuming 100% cpu part deux
So, from the previous post, I thought I may have been on to something with 100GB daily.out file. As it turns out, I wasn’t. But, I kept digging today. And I found something interesting in system.log file Mar 26 03:30:41 … Continue reading
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It started with syslog consuming all my cpu
A rather strange phenomenon has been occurring on my Mac over the last several weeks. Don’t know what started nor do I know if it’s over, but I want to tell you the tale of the 110GB daily.out file and … Continue reading
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And you think your system handles a high transactional volume?
My buddies at work always start chuckling when we look at some performance stats on our middle tier system. We proudly proclaim how we are pushing 5 transactions / second with a quarter second response time on average. This is … Continue reading
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Gassless in Nashville
Yep, that’s right, we are without gas here. It started Friday. Apparently, one pipeline that is responsible for supplying gas to Nashville runs through Houston and the operator has not had power restored. The net result, a shortage of gas … Continue reading
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Ode to credit card payments using machine or human
I travel a lot. And as a result, I fly out of Houston Hobby airport and become very efficient and getting there, parking, and making a fast get-a-way. Something occur to me a few weeks ago as I was peeling … Continue reading
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What I hate about the Internet is…having to select my credit card type
In case if you didn’t know, you can determine the type of credit card, i.e., Visa, Master Card, Amex, and etc. by looking at the number you enter. The prefix and width (including spaces) for the major credit card types … Continue reading
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What I hate about the Internet is…everyone wants you to create an account
It never fails…any website you shop on…they want you to create an account when you check out. Why? When I go to my local mall and buy something in my favorite shop, the store doesn’t ask for my address, phone … Continue reading
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What I hate about the Internet is…
While messing around on the Internet, again…I realized I was obsessing over the useability of the Internet and websites I visit. Most of the thoughts are along the lines of what could be better about websites, what sucks about websites, … Continue reading
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