Monthly Archives: May 2009

Long Weekend in Hawaii

I had a relaxing long weekend in Honolulu. It’s nice to have a change of scenery periodically. It was fairly quiet in Waikiki, as Japanese tourists are still afraid of the swine flu and mainland Americans do the “staycation”. Both … Continue reading

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Congrats on Yahoo Messenger Improvements

Congratulations to the Yahoo! Messenger programmers on the major improvements to the Windows and Blackberry client chat programs. The Windows messenger client Build 9.0.0.2152 no longer leaks handles, although it still uses about 3x the memory and handles (User and … Continue reading

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useful memcached patches and links

Various memcached links … Facebook memcached waffle: raise MEMCACHED_MAX_BUFFER to 16500 Memcached as a L2 Cache for Innodb – The Waffle Grid Project Perrin on memcached vs. local files or mmap Microsoft Velocity cache (memcached clone)

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