mike watkins dot ca : March 2009 Archives

March 2009 Archives

10 entries filed this month:

March 27 2009

While Home Renovation Occupies Me

It seems to me that the CPC ought to be trying to figure out how to make the economy tick, as opposed to how to make home renovation centres tick. (163 words) More …

March 14 2009

Fake Classmates, Facebook, Bank of America SPAM

Follow this link to F-Secure.com (these are the people who write Shaw Secure for Canadian subscribers of Shaw). (160 words) More …

Harper Attacks Obama

Harper attacks Liberals, Obama in private speech to party (March 13 2009 - Jennifer Ditchburn, CP via The Star): (167 words) More …

Cramer and Stewart

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March 13 2009

Help Block Advertising on CBC Radio

Hat tip: The Georgia Straight

March 12 2009

Job Losses in Canada

Is it a good time now to buy stocks, Stephen Harper?

Tyrannical Databases

Durus is a ZODB work-a-like which allows for easy persistence of Python objects, not just values. It's simple, fast, and useful. (956 words) More …

March 10 2009

Reducing RAM resource usage on a VPS

Problem? I think it's self evident. Yes, I know you can tune Apache and yes, I've been down that road before myself, but nothing I've done to tune Apache beats a simple lighttpd implementation, at least not with my application stack. (455 words) More …

Time to Move, Random Observations

I'm decommissioning an older server I have co-located in New Jersey so over the next week or so I'll be moving my non-commercial sites and applications to a Virtual Private Server (VPS). I'm hoping to deploy all apps on the VPS using >= Python 3.1 (alpha, beta, released) alone. (526 words) More …

March 08 2009

Python 3.1a1

New Python - 3.1 alpha 1 released; here it is running QP on a new development machine (actually a "virtual" server):

Fast enough.