There was a time when having a laser printer was a big deal. At that time, printer companies used to make a big deal over how long the printer could go before they needed new supplies. And then even beyond that, there were all the tricks. Time was when…
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cmkl: And now the server load is back to normal
From what I could tell, it was a series of bots making repeated requests for the wordpress pages of one of my hosting clients. I hardened both the Wordpress site, Apache, and banned as many IP address ranges as could be easily identified, and now it’s …
Continue readingcmkl: Someone or something is hammering my server
Normal load level is around 0.9 or something like that. As you can see in this picture, it’s up around 56 now. That means for every one request the server can respond to without delay, there’s 56 other waiting in the queue.
Continue readingcmkl: Power Workers Union caught astroturfing
I believe PWU official John Sprackett when he tells Postmedia that social media is new territory for the PWU. It’s a plausible form of denial given how bad unions are at social media.
Continue readingcmkl: Web hosting: I miss the bad old days
At least when it comes to website serving. There was a time when I had my production web server in my basement and I bought bandwidth from upstream to allow my clients to host their websites for cheap.
Continue readingcmkl: Smell ya later MSIE
For the first time ever last week the number of Firefox visitors to my blog exceeded the number of Internet Explorer visitors. By less than three per cent admittedly, and my audience is neither statistically significant nor representative of the popula…
Continue readingcmkl: You know, some people hate Mondays. I don’t
I figure I have a whole five days to get further ahead in all the stuff I’m supposed to be doing. And there’s a lot, admittedly. But I’m feeling optimistic about the chances for this week. Why?
Continue readingcmkl: This post is a vehicle for cute kid pictures
Mallory and I went out in search of haircuts this afternoon. Offered an hour wait for the annointed barbershop, we walked back down the road to the stylists place – Silver Scissors – and got Mallory seated immediately.
Continue readingcmkl: Sending good vibes to my former colleagues
I am really hoping that the negotiators for my former colleagues can reach a fair settlement with their employer this weekend. As my wonderful, hardworking and ravishingly beautiful partner still works there, I have an interest in the settlement too.
Continue readingcmkl: Something called fseventsd is slowing my computer to a crawl
Apparently it’s the file system events daemon. It records the comings and goings of the machine’s hard disks to a log. Somewhere. This all seems well and good. But are the hard disks in my machine so eventful that it needs to take CPU load up to 4.5? (…
Continue readingcmkl: Relief. Now… what’s next
So a very kind audience. Quick learners and fairly enthusiastic about the project. And very tolerant of the anglo talking at them in Torontois for six hours.
Continue readingcmkl: Almost bedtime so worry some more about french
I’m taking the train to Montréal tomorrow morning (thing leaves at 6:30) to do a day’s worth of training (in french) on how to use our new spiffy content management system (système de gestion de contenu).
Continue readingcmkl: Where’s the peak of Silver Peak
Someone posted a comment on my recent trip report wondering where indeed is the highest point in Silver Peak. Apparently there used to be a fire tower on top of it? And the tower footings mark the highest point. At the end of the Silver Peak trail sect…
Continue readingcmkl: Busy week up ahead
I have two days to prepare both the documentation on and the actual product I’m meant to be delivering training on. In french. In Montréal. I’m quite nervous. But I figure if I can get through that, I can get through the rest of the week and maybe -…
Continue readingcmkl: A whole lotta mushroom
I noticed it in the dark as I drove up to my dad’s place last night around 11:30pm. It’s huge. About the size of a basketball. A puffball. I took some pictures before I headed off to get the car and drive back to Ottawa today.
Continue readingcmkl: Whirlwind visit to Alton
So I got a call from the car repair place. The car was ready. So I beetled home threw some stuff in a bag and hit the road. And I’ll do it all again the other way tomorrow. With any luck there will still be time to help dad cope with the transiti…
Continue readingcmkl: Killarney Park: to Silver Peak and back via Three Narrows
I have posted my usual report on the canoe trip my friend Martin and I took last weekend. This year we went to Killarney Park. Martin had never been so I had to take him ’round to show him the sites. The trip did not disappoint. Read: Killarney Park: C…
Continue readingcmkl: $90K a day for Deloitte? How much of a bargain?
I share the outrage of much of the sane universe over the Harper government’s decision to hire Deloitte and Touche (at $90,000 per day) to tell the Tory cabinet how to cut jobs and reduce services.
Continue readingcmkl: Strike breaking legislation: from premature to preemptive
I don’t know what’s in the deal reached today between CUPE’s Air Canada Component and the company. I’m guessing, since Lisa Raitt said the union would not be allowed to exercise its legal right to strike, that it will not herald a new era of progress a…
Continue readingcmkl: Back from Killarney
I’ll have a full report soon, but I wanted to say re-bonjour to the internet after my server also decided to take the weekend off. I’m looking into the causes and the solutions. Apologies to all whose websites I host and who missed my blog.
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