Wed, 09 Feb 2005
WOW; People!
When I moved from my shared server to the small UML box that this site now calls home I copied a lot of my
logs over. I've never really done any in-depth viewing of my log files but
after finding a new toy to play with (more about that in a separate post) I
decided to have a little nose around.
It seems that in between October 1st 2004 and December 31st 2004 (a total of 92 days including Christmas Day and New Years Eve) www.unixdaemon.net, the main page, not the blog, was visited by 50,974 'unique visitors'. Multiple hits with the same IP, user agent and access day, are considered a single visit so it's not exactly that many people as (hopefully people come back occasionally) but even so I was pretty blown away.
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Posted: 2005/02/09 23:02 | /unixdaemon | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
Large File Check
I've had a findbig
files script up on my miniprojects page for a while now, it's not
exactly a difficult script to write but it deals with a couple of less
obvious cases (exclude lists) that most of the similar scripts on line
don't cater for.
While the script is something thats easily down-loaded and run, if you have anything beyond a handful of machines you need to actually think about how to incorporate it into your checks and how you should run it to get the most return from the least effort.
How not to do this is to kick the script off with a file size of something like 50MB. This'll do nothing but raise huge numbers of false positives and start to make people both fear it's running and numb to the results. This happens way too often.
A better way (IMHO) is to start with a large number, 2GB is good as most older Linux machines had problems with files over this size, and slowly work down; clearing each stage as you go. This way you never overload people with information.
Before making lowering the file size thresh-hold you should get have at least a single empty run, whether you remove the files, change the rotation schedule or even just add them to the ignore list. This both gives people a feeling of actually getting somewhere and ensures that you've not done anything odd. If changing the thresh-hold on a semi-periodic basis is too difficult then simply change tools.
TODO: Make the find big files script accept regexs of files to ignore.
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Posted: 2005/02/09 22:46 | /misctech | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
February 2005 Events -- A Yah and a Nay!
Every February there are two excellent tech events, the UKUUG LISA/Winter
Conference and FOSDEM;
my event of the year.
Due to prior commitments I'm not going to able to make it to the Winter Con this year which means I'm all the more excited about FOSDEM. I'm heading over on the 25th and returning on the 27th with a bunch of the London Perl/Linux people, so if you're about come and say "hello". I'll be the lost looking Londoner wearing an OpenBSD cap and speaking about eight words of broken French.
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Posted: 2005/02/09 22:45 | /events | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
Carly Fiorina Steps down From HPaQ
Carly Fiorina was (oh how I like the sound of that) the CEO of Hewlett
Packard, she was the woman that ushered in the Compaq merger (of which most
techs mocked and laughed at), sold off their best assets, allegedly
undertook some pretty shoddy deals to get it all going and then, while
laying off thousands of staff bought herself and her upper echelons cohorts
half an air force.
And now she's been asked to step down and get the hell out of the way while the company still has a chance in hell of getting out in the market and actually making some money. Now this may sound like just me ranting but it's worth looking at the markets response; HPs stock has risen by 11%, almost 7 BILLION dollars. Thats what you call a bad hiring decision!
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Posted: 2005/02/09 21:42 | /geekstuff | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion -- Book Review
I've finished reading Pragmatic
Version Control Using Subversion and it's a blinder. Whether you're new
to version control in general or just Subversion itself this book is highly
recommended. Clear, concise and crammed full of useful, important and dare
I say, pragmatic, advice and information. An excellent book in it's own
right and a worthy addition to the Starter Kit Series.
My full Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion book review is also now online both here and over at London.pm
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Posted: 2005/02/09 18:23 | /books | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
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