Was just cruising through my news updates over on ReadPath where I’ve got a subscription to the Google EngEdu videos. These are always great ways to get some in depth coverage of a geeky topic. One of the latest ones gave me a quick laugh though. A video on Natural Language Processing had it’s title [...]
Archive for May, 2008
Saw my first Tesla Roadster
Wish I could have gotten some picks, but it was moving pretty quick. I was in San Carlos today to pick up some items and it went tearing down a sidestreet. Can’t wait till there are more of them out on the road.
Wow, CNET Networks gets picked up by CBS
Looks like things will be changing a bit for CNET. They wanted to be a media company. Now they’ve got a really big media company to let them know how it’s done. I’m interested to see what kind of changes come out of this.
Just checked out Powerset
Can’t say that I’m really all that impressed. It wasn’t the shockingly better experience that I remember Google was when I first came across it. Some of the searches that I tested out seemed to be slightly better than Google, but I had to use contrived examples that I wouldn’t really use in everyday activities. [...]
Always check the time
Found another one of those gotchas when debugging caching with multiple servers. Don’t make the assumption that ntpd is working properly and that the time is synchronized on all of the servers. I just spent a whole lot of time to finally discover that somehow a server had its times off by an hour. This [...]
Configuring distributed caching with EHCache on a server with multiple nics
I ran into a small issue yesterday with a tomcat server running hibernate with a distributed ehcache setup for the second tier cache. My server setup currently uses two tomcat servers that are load balanced for serving front end pages along with several other backend servers that do offline processing. Because a lot of the [...]