I had been planning to use Debian Sarge on the new Geograph servers, but the buzz around tomorrow’s new release of Ubuntu is hard to ignore. I’d previously dismissed Ubuntu for server use assuming it was too focussed on the desktop, and while they are doing admirable work in that area, it seems they aren’t [...]
I’ve done all the hard work, the servers are specified, they are ordered and now we must wait for delivery. Now is the time for that most important of tasks.
What to call them?
I think it’s a trait of all geeks to want to give their equipment cool or amusing names. At one of my first [...]
Finally got all the quotes in for Geograph’s brand spanking new hardware platform and we’re ready to order. It’s all rather exciting.
What Geograph currently runs on…
700MHz Celeron server with 512MB RAM and 70GB hard disc space
…and what it will be running on
3 x application servers with dual 3Ghz Xeon CPUs and 4GB RAM
2TB storage server [...]
Ed Parsons blogged his personal thoughs on “Ordnance Survey 2.0″ – pretty frank stuff, given he is the CTO of Ordnance Survey.
He writes about allowing free access to OS data and letting “…users discover the value in OS data by actually deploying it, and if the value is there, they will pay for it later.”
I’ve [...]
Pastebin never used to retain more than a few thousand posts, but the recent feature to allow longer post retention exposed a few performance issues. If you noticed pastebin.com being a little slow, my apologies.
I’ve made a number of fixes to address the problem, if you notice further issues, do let me know with [...]
One of the reasons I started this blog was that I felt we were doing some interesting things with the Geograph site which wasn’t getting documented outside of private emails between the team. The recently announced sponsorship deal with Ordnance Survey is prompting a lot of activity in the team at the moment, so there’s [...]
I’ve been wondering if anyone would like a translated version of Pastebin? It gets a lot of use from Germany – any German coders want to volunteer some translated text? Happy to do other languages too, add a comment below if this of interest (either as a translator or pastebin user)
(EDIT: I’ve had offers [...]
CVS access at SourceForge.net has been shaky for the past month. Couldn’t check anything into Geograph yesterday, and the SourceForge.net Service Status suggests it won’t be fixed until the 12th May (though even that looks like a guess).
Looks like it’s time to migrate it over to Subversion…
I had an email recently enquiring about a freeware Windows application I wrote nine years ago called CleanEx. I was amazed people still use it, even more amazed it still works. Nine years is a long time!
CleanEx is a little shell extension to clean a directory of temporary files, originally conceived as a way to [...]
The new expiry option has been live at pastebin.com for over 24 hours, it’s been interesting to see the usage patterns. There have been just under 2000 posts in the past day, breaking down as follows:
33% expire in a day
64% expire in a month
3% never expire
In a few days I’ll take a look at some [...]
