MySQL Performance Blog
Well, it happened again… Another lengthy EBS outage in the US-East region impacted several sites across the net. While failures like this are rare, they can be quite costly and translate into headaches for the operations team when impact production…
25 October 2012Planet Mozilla
The discussion about whether and how we should do patch reviews faster has been brought up for a few years now. Here is the story of how I decided to stop being lazy start to actually review patches faster. It’s been working very well from me and from…
25 October 2012Planet Mozilla
Bug 588909 is now in Firefox Beta. This replaces the 20100101 date in the Firefox UA string with a version number. The date has been frozen for a long time and doesn’t give any useful information. Gecko versions and Firefox versions are now aligned, so it…
24 October 2012Macworld
Just under a year ago, I wrote about how to create shared Reminders lists with iCloud. Back then, I explained that while you could create reminders and lists on your iPhone or iPad, the only way to create shared lists—which you and others could access…
24 October 2012TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Last year I had the pleasure of testing a STEM Innovation IZON Remote Room Monitor, a small WiFi webcam that at the time had the honor of being the easiest webcam I'd ever set up. STEM has just come out with the second-generation device, the US$129.95…
23 October 2012Macworld
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Who said that? Let me scroll back in Messages to find the exact person. (Ah, yes, George Santayana.) One of iChat’s nicest features was the way it allowed you to sift through the transcripts of…
23 October 2012Planet Mozilla
I have the bloody habit to look for cheap deals on some websites and today I’ve got the featured offer to buy more than 1 million Facebook entries containing Full Name, e-mail and Facebook profile URL. I make a quick check over the data and surprise,…
23 October 2012MacOSXHints.com
Having searched the web, I could not find any reference to playing 1080p videos on the 2nd generation Apple TV (fully updated with the latest firmware). The Wikipedia entry, for example, states that it is 720p only. But my experiments show that 1080p…
23 October 2012Wired Top Stories
The very best basketball free throw shooters can sink the ball about 90 percent of the time. What would it take to get to 95 percent? WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez steps up to the foul line with top shooter Steve Nash to find out.
23 October 2012Wired Top Stories
The very best basketball free throw shooters can sink the ball about 90 percent of the time. What would it take to get to 95 percent? WIRED's Robbie Gonzalez steps up to the foul line with top shooter Steve Nash to find out.
23 October 2012