Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
While I was still working for Anchor Systems, we had a client who was launching a fairly large website and as part of the gradual ramp-up to delivery we needed to perform some capacity tuning of the web/application servers. The application stack was basically Perl via mod_perl on Apache (not threaded) so we had to determine the memory footprint of the application and make a determination of how…
I'm a big proponent of getting IPv6 out there, but not everyone shares this opinion. A lot of people are happy to stick with IPv4 and all of the horrid NATing nightmares this introduces despite there being such big wins when using IPv6. Some issues it does introduce though need to be dealt with:
With no other outlet, I've previously been linking to interesting posts and stories from my Google Buzz account. Not many (if any) of them had additional commentary from me, so I'm just dumping the links here for any interested parties (in chronological order). You'll notice a lot of them are DB-related, as that's what a large bulk of my time this year has been devoted to.
One last post before I hit the sack... There's this thing called IPv6. You need it.
By and large most companies involved in Internet things are doing very little to promote IPv6 uptake but Hurricane Electric are one of few that are doing some cool things. They offer free IPv6 tunneling (and have a lot of endpoints globally), as well as a pretty awesome certification course. OK, it's not "official…
Does it strike anyone else as odd, that humans, are the only creatures that glorify one another? We seem to be obsessed with celebrity and rarely because of their intellectual status, but rather their 'attractiveness'.
Humans seem to be the only creature who refuse to be what they are, spending countless hours emulating someone else, often with a higher status that we have endowed upon them in the…
I've always enjoyed writing (and occasionally presenting) technical documents, whether that be official documentation, wiki articles or blog posts. Fortunately I was encouraged to do so at my last place of employment, Anchor Systems, but unfortunately the documents in question (while publicly available) are not mine so remain on their site. I thought I'd link to them from here though:
Every man, woman and child has a blog already but I've held off long enough. Mostly my intention is to record interesting (to me at least) ideas, thoughts, information etc somewhere that is reasonably accessible, and not only to me. Google Buzz doesn't get enough readership, and most of my friends don't really care about the tech-related garbage I post to Facebook.
So if you are reading this…