Yammer has a new desktop client. I like that you can pop out threads into new, separate windows. Handy for keeping track of a particular conversation. Best of the new features. The new client feels snappier because your own updates are posted immediately in the client. The sluggishness of the old client had me looking [...]
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The “whoever’s there” conversations that occur in hallways, around a person’s desk, or in the break room are critical components of a company’s culture. And a company’s culture is its soul. Success or failure starts there. So, you know, this meaningless banter is actually pretty important. When everyone’s working remotely, it can be easy to lose [...]
I just discovered Google Chart API. You can create charts on-the-fly by manipulating a url. This is way easier (and prettier) than the PHP library I was going to use. Once again I’m very impressed with Google. (Big hat tip to Stack Overflow for already having the answer to my question about easiest way to [...]
Got the new VPS. After I added a domain, apache wouldn’t restart. I was getting this error: [root@vps ~]# /etc/init.d/httpd configtest Syntax error on line 1158 of /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf: Invalid command ‘BytesLog’, perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration Huh. Did this VPS ship with a broken apache? Not a [...]
Be a good citizen. Whenever Firefox crashes I waffle between sending the error report and not sending it. Sometimes the paranoid side gets to me. I can’t even use laziness as an excuse. Clicking “send” takes exactly the same amount of energy as clicking “don’t send”. So I’m vowing to always send the error report [...]
After the server instability this morning, we were hit with a couple surprises this afternoon. We started getting mysql errors with the word “corrupted”. The specific error was different for various tables. Then we noticed lots of recent content was missing. Oh shit. Luckily, fixing these corrupted tables was easy. Using REPAIR TABLE did the [...]
This is what a shared hosting server looks like just before it runs out of memory (both physical and swap). My shell is hung. The sites are down. top – 06:13:44 up 28 days, 2:47, 1 user, load average: 83.66, 37.25, 16.93 Tasks: 343 total, 1 running, 341 sleeping, 1 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 3.9% [...]
I got the dreaded white screen of death (WSOD) for our activeCollab installation today. I moved the hosting for this site yesterday, so it’s probably related to that. I just had no idea what the problem might be. No errors on the screen, nothing written to the apache logs. Damn. This is going to be [...]
1. Install Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. It’s a free download. 2. Install this free image of Windows with IE6. It’s time-bombed to stop working August 17, 2007. But check back on the MSDN IE blog for an updated image.
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