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huge crashes with centos 6.2 & LSI SAS

Yesterday I ran yum update on most of my servers. It was a large update, I guess it was centos 6.2? At any rate part of the update was kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64. After I updated 3 of my servers became unresponsive … Continue reading

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The best Servers(s) in the world

So you are a startup. You have decided to not use the cloudy stuff. You want some rocking hardware! Here it is. Start with the chassis: The awesome Supermicro 2026TT. This badass in a 2U case has 4 nodes and … Continue reading

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Roll your own or virtual cloudiness

For a startup you have 2 choices: host on some virtual hardware in the cloud (EC2) or roll your own. I spent a short time evaluating the pros and cons of each and what I came up with is that … Continue reading

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New section : Discussion – discuss.fishblab.com

Discussion with comments is in place at discuss.fishblab.com. This section is for free-form fishing discussion. A discussion requires a short descriptive caption and then the body or content of the post. The date defaults to the current date. Multiple photos … Continue reading

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Symfony Review

I really like symfony a lot. Why? It is very structured. I like that, I don’t need to be creating my own application framework (anymore). It takes a while to figure out where stuff goes but after a while it … Continue reading

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Launch of FishBlab!

On January first 2011 we deemed FishBlab.com to be complete enough for official Alpha release. http://www.fishblab.com is now live! I will be discussing the various features in future blog releases. Fishblab.com contains a map based toolset for discussing, reporting and … Continue reading

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Follow up: lost connection to mysql server at ‘reading initial communication packet’, system error: 113

This is a follow up to my post: “lost connection to mysql server at ‘reading initial communication packet’, system error: 113″ It is now safe to say that the issue has been resolved with the switch from centos 5 to … Continue reading

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Who the fuck pays for RHEL?

Seriously. Who the hell would pay for RHEL? Ok, you have a big wasteful company company run by inept and stupid managers – I can understand that. But otherwise, why pay? I have 8 machines on a site. RHEL wants … Continue reading

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lost connection to mysql server at ‘reading initial communication packet’, system error: 113

Yeah, that one! You getting that too? Ripping your hair out? Here, have some of mine too! I was getting an intermittenet error on a CENTOS 5 PHP 5.3 server. Hard to recreate as it occurred every few hours. This … Continue reading

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RHEL 6 is nice!

Just loaded up a new version of RHEL 6. This is a PHP appication server that will sit between the front end lightweight apache servers and the back end MySQL databases. This is very preliminary, but the performance increase is … Continue reading

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