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Comment on The tablet (r)evolution by Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:01:32 +0000

Hey, informative Weblog, keep it up! I have bookmarked for future reference! All the best for the future

Comment on A trial for Saddam Hussein, a bullet for Osama Bin Laden by Vincent van den Heuvel

Vincent van den Heuvel — Mon, 09 May 2011 15:05:24 +0000

I had the same discussion in my family, what scares me most dude is that people stop thinking for themselves because the president of the USA says so. They stop thinking about basic things: why was he dropped a ouple of hundred kilometers away to the south in the sea? Why was he shot dead AFTER the gunfire, why not just wound him? Seal team 6 is not incompetent so the most important question is why did USA wanted him dead?

Comment on Android it is by Vincent van den Heuvel

Vincent van den Heuvel — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:26:40 +0000

Just 3 words: what a surprise!

Comment on iPhone 4 or Android? by Henk van de Goor

Henk van de Goor — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 14:15:54 +0000

Boy, what an utter rubbish article from an obvious Apple fanboy. The market is flooded with Android phones and as sales rises, the battle for the phone and tablet isn’t over – at all. For every iPhone sold there are more Android powered phones sold. Nokia’s choice for Windows 7 Mobile is going to be their Waterloo imho.

Froyo wasn’t ready for tablets. But Honeycomb looks like it will be a good competitor as it is actually designed for tablets.

What Apple needs to worry about right now, is finding a successor to Steve Jobs: from the looks of it he won’t be here by the end of the year.

Other than that: they can never sit and relax without looking at the competition.

Comment on iPhone 4 or Android? by Vincent van den Heuvel

Vincent van den Heuvel — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:21:04 +0000

Here’s an interesting take on Honeycomb vs iOS, this is a three part publication:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2011/02/05/why-apple-cant-be-too-worried-about-android-3-0-honeycomb-tablets-taking-away-ipad-sales-part-1/

Comment on Information wants to be free by Vincent van den Heuvel

Vincent van den Heuvel — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 12:02:30 +0000

I was waiting for you to cover this subject Unless we get Chinese government policies, the information on WikiLeaks will be available, we have learned from past cases that the internet can’t be controlled by a government or commercial organization (thank God!). If you look at the list of available mirrors every step the US government does is useless (closing DNS servers, DOS attacking servers and pressuring organizations/governments).
Attacking the credibility of Julian Assange is of course scenario 1 in the book of any 3 letter agency. But even when they gag or worse kill Assange they won’t succeed because the information is distributed globally, actually they will make a martyr of him. The laws of power have been changed, democracy and freedom of the press give journalists the ability to check our governments if they like it or not. This will always be a game of cat-and-mouse.

Comment on Information wants to be free by Henk van de Goor

Henk van de Goor — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:05:03 +0000

The game has changed, so the rules have changed too. Governments don’t understand this – yet. They are slow learners.

Comment on Liberté, égalité, fraternité by Thijs Lensselink

Thijs Lensselink — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:24:50 +0000

The fact that woman earn less then men is just ridiculous. If two entities perform the same when doing a profession. They should be compensated the same way as well.. But hey when has the world been that logical?

Besides we Europeans don’t have a much better climate either. Woman in Holland for instance make 20% less then their male co-workers. Welcome to the 21st century

http://www.loonwijzer.nl/home/vrouwenloonwijzer/beloningsverschillen-m-v/beloningsverschillen-m-v#loonverschillen-m-v-gemiddeld

Comment on Occam’s razor by Marijke

Marijke — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:47:42 +0000

it might have been a ‘Lutz Ferrando ear trumpet’

for a more logic explenation

Comment on One light bulb by Henk van de Goor

Henk van de Goor — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:13:52 +0000

I already received many mails from Site5 regarding this specific issue. They sure take everything serious, which is good. But as you read below, nothing is ever as simple as it seems:

Hi Henk,

My name is Graham McMillan and I am the Chief of Support Operations here at Site5.

I have reviewed the emergency issue you experienced recently due to a database using a large amount of system resources. Although it is technically possible to disable a single database, it is not something that we feel is safe nor desired. In order to disable a single database we would need to do one of two things — modify the permissions on the database files themselves or temporarily drop your MySQL user permissions.

The first option — modifying permissions — would cause a lot of errors to show up on your site and it would simply appear that our MySQL server was down or malfunctioning. This would make things confusing from a support perspective. We also do not know what could happen with InnoDB-based databases as I think changing the permissions on a live database could cause corruption issues in the database. I do not think it is worth the risk, but would require further testing.

The other option would be to drop the MySQL user completely, but this could also cause problems if that user is being used elsewhere. More importantly, we would need some way to drop the permissions, save them, and restore them. Our control panel does not currently have this ability but perhaps it is something we can look into implementing in the future.

I also wanted to explain how we detect these problems. Our server managers are watching servers 24/7 and when an alert comes up they check several different things. Our server managers are monitoring several hundred servers along with VPS hosts. Web server and script usage is usually checked first as these are the likely issues, but sometimes it is I/O issues due to MySQL usage. The problem with checking MySQL usage is that we have no easy way of knowing which actual script or URL within an account the problem database is tied to — we are only presented with the database name. In order to find which script/directory the database is tied to we would probably have to scan every single file on your account for that database name to find the configuration file and the website tied to it.

Please understand that we always try to disable specific content whenever possible. I specifically advise our technicians that they should try to disable a specific directory or script before doing a full suspension of an account. I think you will find that this is actually quite rare in comparison to other web hosts who will often suspend an entire account at the first sign of high resource usage.

So, while I would like to implement something that can safely disable databases individually, it is not something we currently have available. I have added it to my todo and it is hopefully something that can be looked into further in the near future as I completely agree that we shouldn’t disable anything that is unrelated to the issue at hand.

Thanks,

Graham McMillan
Chief of Support Operations, Site5.com