Flickr works as a community. You upload photos, people find them and ask you if they can use them. You get feedback without advertising them or something like that. Sometimes however people use your pictures without letting you know. This happens of course when you attach a proper license to your photos. This happened to […]
Currently I’m digging myself into the world of administrating servers. I started with webservers but by now I’m administrating multiple servers that run services like DNS, HTTP, Mail, SVN, MySQL, PostgreSQL and a couple more. My last thing was DNS. I’ve read through the reference book from O’Reilly: DNS & Bind and set up two […]
Finally I got my own DSLR camera. It’s the new Canon 40D. More photos are about to come. Brace for impact!
I just tried to migrate an old MySQL 4.0 installation to MySQL 5.0. Most of the dumps worked smooth but there was a MediaWiki dump which raised the following error: ERROR 1071 (42000) at line 66: Specified key was too long; max key length is 1000 bytes On this page is described what the error […]
When Pavel microbenchmarked every language he came across it turned out as expected, Ruby was the slowest language in all three micro tests. It was really embarrassing. I was curious if this was about to change in future versions of Ruby so I checked out the current Ruby 1.9 version from their svn repository svn […]