I hate these Linux 'extra security' things!

One of our neighbors took this photo

Quoted: Wanted to share this cool photo with you (you can click on it to enlarge). Thanks to Aaron McCaughan for sharing. ~j

Quoted: I have the first version of this book, and have just used parts of this, the second version, to help setup a new MySQL server in a production environment. This book has saved me hours already. Worth the price, right there. If you do stuff with MySQL, you must have this book.

Quoted: I recently read jPod:amazon:0747585873 the book by Douglas Coupland. Its a pretty good book, kind of weird - perhaps Quirky is a good description. As a programmer in the video game industry, its kind of required reading It turns our that CBC in Canada turned this into a TV Show) This story works much better as a TV show!

Quoted: I'm diagnosing a load problem with a server, and ATOP has helped me a lot. For Ubuntu - 'apt-get install atop' works fine. Here is the ATOP home page

Quoted: I tracked down a performance issue in my code today that was pretty subtle. I have a table with a varchar column that contains a number, mainly for size reasons. This column has an index all to itself, so queries using the column should be pretty snappy, but they weren't. My code went something like this: find(:all, :conditions => "my_col

More stuff for managing EC2 instances.

New, free, and written in Ruby

Some example articles:
Chuck Norris helps to protect America from so-called "Americans".
Phoenix Lander discovers dirt on Mars.

Quoted: Uncyclopedia is a database that anyone can edit.

Scalr has a hosted version for $50/month, but the code is open source! Much cheaper than RightScale

Quoted: Scalr is a fully redundant, self-curing and self-scaling hosting environment utilizing Amazon's EC2.

Quoted: It allows you to create server farms through a web-based interface using prebuilt AMI's for load balancers (pound or nginx), app servers (apache, others), databases (mysql master-slave, others), and a generic AMI to build on top of.