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In the aftermath of Intermedia’s extended outage, an important lesson to be learned for SAS providers
As a current (and reasonably long time) customer of SAS Exchange hosting provider Intermedia.com, we at OleOle were naturally affected to some extent by Intermedia’s extended system outage on March 5th, 2010. For pretty much the entire morning on that day, we, along with thousands of their other customers, had zero email capability, no sending, [...]
Andy Murray Drops to #5
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 [...]
Surprise! Not all Amazon EC2 compute units are created equal
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 [...]
Fantastic Nikolay does it again!
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, [...]
Getting Memcached working on Windows Vista with Symfony
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 [...]
Something I haven’t seen in a while – the blue screen of death!
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 [...]
Using Google Analytics To Show Unique Visitors By Country
I was surprised to realize today that Google Analytics doesn’t provide an easy way to view the unique visitors to your website broken down by country. You can see Visits by country, average pages viewed per visit (and hence, total page views by country can be calculated) and a few other metrics, but maddeningly, you [...]
Handy SQL snippet: Easily calculate average age of all members from DOB
The problem: Let’s say you have a database with a members or users list and you have the birthdate of these members stored in a date or datetime format (i.e. 1985-07-31 or similar). Now let’s say you would like to know the average age of the members in your list. This incidentally was exactly the [...]
Amazon, oh Amazon, You Continue to Disappoint Me
Following Amazon’s EC2 recently reaching capacity at certain EC2 zones, I now shake my head in dismay at what to me, is another poor showing by a service that I would love to love, if only they would let me! So today we get an email from them soliciting feedback to their SimpleDB service, which [...]
Rosewall Over Borg As A Top 4 All-Time Great?
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 [...]
