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$2500 Mousepad
My laptop charger died today. I now have a $2500 mousepad. I guess I should really get it fixed 🙂 UPDATE: I contacted Apple last Friday and received my new charger in the mail today (Monday). Pretty fast!
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OS X not so fool proof
Yesterday my Mac Mini let me know there was an available security update. Should be easy enough I thought so I clicked the “Install” button. After about 2 minutes of installing I received the error that the updated failed to install and had been moved to the trash. If I wanted to attempt to reinstall…
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BBQ and free wifi
During my trip to Texas last week, I discovered that the Rudy’s BBQ in New Braunfels has free wifi! BBQ and free Internet access — doesn’t get much better than that. Needless to say, I made multiple trips to Rudy’s during my visit. When I am not in Texas, I get my fill of BBQ…
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When 100% is not 100%
Rackspace Managed Hosting is well known for their support and their 100% network uptime guarantee. One night last week, between approximately 23:31PDT and 23:51PDT there was an outage which affected Rackspace’s authoritative DNS servers and possibly other parts of their network. As a result, any site that uses Rackspace’s nameservers may or may not have…
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Load balancer testing
Over the past week here at wordpress.com, we have been doing some experimentation with various software load balancers. In the latest test, we are using Pound with a weighted round-robin algorithm between all of the web servers in a given datacenter. The individual weight takes into account hardware differences and any other tasks that server…
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