Poetry
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008gentrification. trillions.
pizza. hamburgers.
keep it real until it's pretend.
bike messenger delivery
1/8th for less than a day's paycheck
adult swim but the pool is already full
Archive for May, 2008
Virtualbox: first steps
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008Sun’s recent aquisition, which is a GUI wrapper around the qemu/kvm virtualization archetecture is called Virtual Box. I’m installing a Debian guest on an OS X host. Overall the installation went smoothly, fast, simple, networking auto configured. But when I try and connect to the server from the host or any other hosts on the LAN, I cannot. This is due to qemu’s odd networking model which requires the user to manually configure bridging on the host. Unfortunately, they have not published any docs to do this on OS X…so I’m going hacking.
A pretty cool illustration I found
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Swiftcore Swiftiply should not be used in production
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008swiftiply 0.6.1.1 with mongrel 1.0.1 should not be used on a production web site, lest you will be left with no running mongrel processes after a while. How do I know this, you may ask? I know it because it happened to me. The swiftiply evented mongrel server cannot handle an HTTP request for a proxy. This makes sense considering that it is not a proxy, though rather than dropping this request on the floor and moving along, the mongrel process throws an exception, which is not caught in the code and dies. Just like that, with no warning. See you later HTTP server.
Inspecting the code in the latest prerelease, the evented_mongrel.rb file has not been changed to handle this situation any more gracefully. For the time being, evented mongrel has been removed from production. Just like that.