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MCP9701A Thermistor Requires a Stable Input Voltage 2 Sep 2012 | 08:57 am
I’ve always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with computers, so it is not uncommon for me to go a few months feeling a bit apathetic towards them. Recently, I have been getting more into electron...
Adding a Notification to Old WordPress Posts 6 Apr 2012 | 05:06 am
While some articles may be timeless, depending on the type of content being published, many posts have a definite expiry date. It is the double edged sword of rapidly evolving technologies – they impr...
WebSockets – Varnish, Nginx, and Node.js 27 Mar 2012 | 05:28 am
Like many others I have been drawn in by the appeal of websockets and their use in (near) real-time communication. As such one of my current projects uses Node.js and websockets (via socket.io). To ma...
DRBD on Amazon’s Linux 25 Mar 2012 | 03:56 am
Note: this was done more as an experiment than for something I intended to use in production – so consider it to be more a compilation of notes than a full out procedure. DRBD – Distributed Replicate...
Varnish – Nothing but 503s 12 Mar 2012 | 10:00 pm
I use Varnish on my production server without any issues – it works quite well, and I have come to consider it an essential component in my server stack. I have recently been having a bit of trouble w...
Root Autologin on CentOS 11 Mar 2012 | 07:18 pm
Do not do this – it is a very, very bad idea!!! Doing this for any reason (other than the fun of it – in a ‘safe’ virtual environment) should carry with it an eternal ban prohibiting the use of a comp...
Windowless VirtualBox VMs (Windows Host) 11 Mar 2012 | 05:46 pm
Since I haven’t gotten around to playing with VMware or xen yet – VirtualBox is what I am using for virtualization in my test environment. Under Windows I like to use PuTTy to connect to my VMs – eve...
Directly connecting to PHP-FPM 2 Feb 2012 | 12:01 pm
When it comes to troubleshooting, it is ideal to be able to isolate each component of a system. In the case where multiple connected items are performing correctly, they can sometimes be grouped toget...
Combating WordPress Spam 25 Jan 2012 | 06:51 am
This post is rather different than my normal style – but it is something that has been driving me increasingly crazy of late. This site started in late 2010, and by early 2011 was receiving about 1 sp...
Autoscaling with custom metrics 23 Jan 2012 | 07:22 pm
One of the appeals of cloud computing is the idea of using what you need when you need. One of the ways that Amazon provides for this is through autoscaling. In essence, this allows you to vary the nu...
