Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Not just one, but two great product announcements from Apple on this years MacWorld. The amazingly small, and cheap, Mac mini and the also highly affordable and tiny iPod shuffle. The iPod shuffle is available now and reportedly caused a stampede at the Apple store nearest the convention centre where MacWorld is held.
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Some time ago I was asked to create a mail account for a certain function within our company. I usually answer such a question with a counter-question: 'Why? What is the reason? What do you want to achieve?'. Specifically since I time and again find that people are not clear about the difference between roles and persons fulfilling those roles. These things should be separate entities.
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I managed to get spread up and running. Turned out I did not need any multicast routing after all. Documentation on multicast routing is sporadic and of poor quality, although it looks like using mrouted just works out of the box.
Posted by Pepijn Oomen
Christmas holidays are over, and although I do not go back to work before tomorrow, I had to get started today anyways. The load on one of the back-end servers was way too high, but we still are missing a proper tool to identify the real culprit. It turned out that most of the problems were caused by just two IP addresses which were very busy with collection all pages of sites hosted at us. After blacklisting those things became much more manageable.
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After the switch to Jetty, I was still not quite happy with the performance of blojsom on my server, but it looks like activating Apache's mod_proxy really makes a difference.
