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Owner of Bashton Ltd, a firm specialising in Linux consultancy, with a particular emphasis on clustering.

If you've got a site you're struggling to scale, we can help. http://bashton.com/

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Comment · 15 years ago
In Formula 1 the FIA (rule-makers and enforcers) often seem to give penalties to ensure the title fight goes to the last race.

Hamilton in Spa 2008 and Alonso in Monza 2006 are examples which come to mind.

Comment · 15 years ago
Pretty cool, but it needs the ability to pitch up/down to be useful.
Comment · 15 years ago
Too late for me - I bought a Samsung Galaxy S2 instead of an HTC Sensation precisely because of the locked bootloader.
Comment · 15 years ago
mmap is how the Varnish web cache works - the cache files is mmaped in, and the kernel does the rest.

Given the awesome performance of Varnish, I am surprised more applications haven't taken this approach.

Comment · 15 years ago
In the UK the liability of directors is limited to the nominal value originally invested (usually £100).
Comment · 15 years ago
Manchester/Warrington borders here (Birchwood). Cheap office space + quick train journey to the centre of Manchester.
Comment · 16 years ago
TLDR; It's marginally faster than the Boxster architecture, but slower than the Carrera architecture.
Comment · 16 years ago
And no doubt the phishers are already cooking up emails to this effect too...
Comment · 16 years ago
Interested to compare to http://www.cio.co.uk/news/3252277/demand-for-tech-staff-high... which suggests that the number of IT jobs in the UK is growing, and that growth will accelerate over the next year.
Comment · 16 years ago
Rewards cards cost more to process. As I understand it though Mastercard and Visa T&Cs mean that if you either accept all cards or none.
Comment · 16 years ago
Python 2.6. Also PHP 5.3 and MySQL 5.1.
Comment · 16 years ago
Nope, the CSS contains

-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; /* Stops the iPhone scalling type up */

which has the unfortunate side-effect of preventing text resize in webkit browsers.

Comment · 16 years ago
Typing this on an 1810TZ and I agree. 3GB of RAM, reasonable processor, 1366x768 native resolution, 6-8 hours battery life depending on usage. Cost me £330, although I've swapped out the HD for an 80GB Intel X25M SSD which cost an extra £130 or so.

I use this as my primary machine, plugged into a 24" 1920x1200 monitor and a USB keyboard/mouse on my desk. It's easily fast enough for what I need.

Comment · 16 years ago
I've worked on several servers of similar specs to this (64GB RAM, MySQL 5.0 or 5.1) and have never seen this issue.

All systems were running RHEL or CentOS, so perhaps Red Hat have fixed the problem.

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