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Gnuplot time-series buckets quickie

Posted on March 16, 2012 by dre

Let’s say you’ve got a log file of events with time stamps; the nature of the events isn’t relevant, and let’s say the stamps look like this: 14/Mar/2012:17:49:34 14/Mar/2012:17:49:34 14/Mar/2012:17:49:39 14/Mar/2012:17:49:40 14/Mar/2012:17:49:41 14/Mar/2012:17:49:58 14/Mar/2012:17:51:46 14/Mar/2012:17:51:46 14/Mar/2012:17:52:56 14/Mar/2012:17:52:56 14/Mar/2012:17:52:57 14/Mar/2012:17:52:57 14/Mar/2012:17:53:16 … Continue reading →

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The case of the excessively congratulatory Memory Slot Utility

Posted on October 15, 2011 by dre

A while ago I filled up my final unused memory slot in my awesome Mac Pro with an additional 4 gigorams (for a grand total of 16). Since then, whenever I reboot I’m showered with praise by the Memory Slot … Continue reading →

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SJ

Posted on October 6, 2011 by dre

I only worked under Steve’s leadership for a few years, and never spoke to him in person. Even so, he earned my respect for thinking big and really wanting people to *understand* what he was after. The technology is definitely … Continue reading →

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Exploring web apps in Lion Server

Posted on July 24, 2011 by dre

There is some new glue in Lion Server to help manage infrastructure sharing between services, mostly targeted at web-related services referred to as web apps. This post aims to shed a bit of light on the ‘web apps’ layer to … Continue reading →

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Mailman members only

Posted on April 17, 2011 by dre

Recently I had occasion to cook up some glue for a Mailman deployment that wanted a privacy and membership management policy that would not be facilitated by the Mailman mailing list software in its current form. We wanted to host … Continue reading →

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ATI 5870 now available!

Posted on November 12, 2010 by dre

… and there was much rejoicing.

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The Server Solution

Posted on November 6, 2010 by dre

Following Apple’s announcement of the XServe’s cancellation yesterday, there has been an expected amount of chatter revolving around Apple’s server-oriented efforts in general, and also specifically about Apple’s software and hardware offerings. As somebody who has lived and worked in … Continue reading →

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“It won’t break…”

Posted on November 3, 2010 by dre

” … it will break your batteries” says dogbert. This is what happens when you screw the battery cover on the apple bluetooth keyboard too tight! Can you guess which of the batteries below works reliably? :) (yes, these are … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X QA launches

Posted on October 9, 2010 by dre

New site; Mac OS X QA – Technical Q&A about Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server.

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ATI Radeon 5870, where art thou?!

Posted on August 9, 2010 by dre

Want to buy. Can’t click button. Starcraft II is running pretty nice in my current rig (MacPro4,1 + ATI Radeon 4870), but I’ve read that the 5870 is substantially faster – double the VRAM, too.

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