MoocowProductions

So a while ago I added some PHP kung-fu to make downloads easier to track. Today I updated it to hopefully work better for people on slower connections or with non-standard configurations. It works like most sites out there where it loads a page that contains a direct link if …

So apparently my last round of securing the website from spammers made things a bit too restrictive and actually prevented people from creating accounts. Ouch. Well, I seem to have fixed things. My apologizes for the one person I noticed in my logs that tried to register and didn’t :) …

I released a new version of my new stuff tracking application, called StuffDawg and thought I would give it a small plug on my blog. What is it? Well, you know how all the manuals of your somewhat expensive material possessions all say to write down the serial number of …

So Kay and I have sort of a fun rivalry going on at work. Both of us claim to be regular badasses at video games, and while there is no contest when we are playing Street Fighter II (namely, I win), Super Mario Brothers was a different story. She challenged …

So yesterday my server finally took a dive. I had been running some MySQL benchmarks and testing throughout the day and was running an ALTER TABLE over a big database when the whole thing just crapped out. Turns out, the power supply was bad, and later the NIC also decided …

Pov-Ray has long been known for best working on a single-CPU configuration. While there have been patches throughout the years to allow it to operate using more than one physical machine, there were often limitations involved. Now that there is a defining shift to multi-core designs, specifically at the expense …

One thing that has been a curious topic among some of us here at work has been if raw InnoDB partitions are better than using files on-top of a file-system. Well, I was able to find a test server that, while it has modest hardwawre, it did have a spare …