Surprise! Not all Amazon EC2 compute units are created equal

January 10th, 2010

A very interesting discovery made by our sys admin not so long ago: While Amazon EC2 sells its hosting services on the notion of leasing virtualized servers with a guaranteed amount of standard compute units, memory and disk space, it turns out that in fact, not all EC2 compute units are created equal. In other [...]   Read more

Getting Memcached working on Windows Vista with Symfony

November 11th, 2009

I finally found a solution to a long standing issue that had been driving me crazy: getting memcached to work with the PHP development framework Symfony on my Windows Vista based development machine. For whatever reason, it just has not worked for me from day 1 since moving to Vista (from XP) and setting up [...]   Read more

Something I haven’t seen in a while – the blue screen of death!

October 21st, 2009

Having been using Windows Vista for about 1.5 years now, I had thought the dreaded Windows Blue Screen of Death (aka. BSOD) was really and truly a thing of the past. So it was funny (but not really in a funny ha ha kind of way) to be greeted this morning when I sat down [...]   Read more

Asides

• For the first time in almost 1.5 years, Britian's Andy Murray is out of the ATP top 4 as his decision not to attempt to defend his Qatar Open title this past week in Doha saw him lose 250 ranking points and so slide down to #5 behind Argentina's Juan Martin Del Potro who moves up to #4. With this movement, coupled with Delpo's winning the US Open last year, means that officially the "men's ATP big 4" should now be Roger Federer, Rafa Nadal, Novak Djokovic and Delpo (replacing Murray). #
• Congrats to veteran Russian slugger Nikolay Davydenko as he pulls off what only one other man (that is David Nalbandian) has ever done before - beat Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal in back to back tournaments. His win today at Doha in the Qatar Open over Rafa in the finals (beating Fed in the semis, same point at which he took out Fed during last year's season ending championships in London), now means he has beaten Rafa 3 straight times in a row and leads their head to head 5-4 - very impressive stuff. I've always liked the Russian's no-nonsense workman-like approach and dedication to the game, and man oh man, when he is on, Davydenko can hit angles like no other. #
• ESPN's Joel Drucker writes today to make a case for Aussie tennis legend Ken Rosewall to be considered one of the 4 all-time greats who should belong on the "Mount Rushmore" of tennis - the other three being Rod Laver, Pete Sampras, and Roger Federer. So who's missing from the list? Right, Swedish great Bjorn Borg, who Drucker bumps off in favor of Rosewall. #