Browsing the blog archives for February, 2006

Wordpress 2.0.1 performance – slow?

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So, I upgraded to WP 2.0.1 yesterday. I’ve been doing some benchmarks on it. With DISABLE_CACHE set to false: Requests per second: 3.47 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 288.096 [ms] (mean) With DISABLE_CACHE set to true: Requests per second: 3.67 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: [...]

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EMC Rants

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At my company, we use EMC. I don’t like them. Why? EMC stuff is just so expensive for what it does. We’re talking about an array, not a space shuttle, but just to get a decent sized one into your datacenter requires a budget approaching said space shuttle. Well. Maybe a wing. Don’t bother with the NAS [...]

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Holy Mactels batman!

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I was reading last week about the race to get Windows XP booting on the new Macintosh Core Duo based iMacs and MacBooks. Nobody has been successful so far because Apple did not include the BIOS compatibility code that allows BIOS dependent software like Windows and Linux to boot. A guy called Colin from Houston, Texas, created [...]

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Level ding for WordPress!

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So, looks like my favourite blogging tool, WordPress, has an update. I’ve been thinking about building a modified WordPress that can host a service like WordPress.com’s. This new update should help with that, as they’ve fixed a whole bunch of bugs. In other news, its raining cats and dogs outside my Ikebukuro office. I don’t want to be [...]

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