Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
This post is just for Media Temple Grid Server users.
If you got an email from mt about GPU overages this month, it may have been incorrectly calculated. That’s what happened to me. I normally only use about half my GPUs, and all of a sudden I got an overage warning for April. After fighting with them a bit on how this didn’t make any sense, I got this email…
“On 3/10/07 system engineers rolled out an upgrade (GMR v.1.2) to the (gs) Grid-Server which included many system enhancements and bug fixes. We have since discovered through an analysis of these upgrades, which made several changes to core code and logic, that a miscalculation was introduced to the GPU accounting formula on certain Clusters. Our immediate plans to remedy this situation are as follows:
- All GPU related charges from the date range of 3/10/07 to today will be voided and a credit will be issued to your account.
- In the best interest of our customers, all GPU accounting and overage fees will be disabled pending a full, forensic analysis of our GPU accounting system.
- A new GPU analysis tool is being developed to give you an incredibly detailed view into your GPU usage. This new tool, currently in development, will help you track scripts, software, and files which are causing GPUs to be used. We will be providing further updates on this tool on our weblog.
We regret any inconvenience this may have caused you. Please be assured that (mt) Media Temple will only collect payment for accounting which is 100% accurate and valid. Should you have any questions, please use one of these options to contact our billing department for more information.”
I was pretty frustrated with mt over the past few days, but they seem to be making an effort to ensure there are no incorrect charges. I’ll give them a thumbs up for that.
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
If you’re a fan of Moo’s mini-cards, you might like to have a look at their new notecards.
via Cool Hunting
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Wednesday, April 18th, 2007
This is a little off-topic for what I normally post here, but considering we use this dog food, I thought I should help spread the word to others who may use it as well.
Natural Balance has issued a voluntary recall of some of their dog and cat products. Check out their press release for full details. If you have any questions on the recall, you can call them at 1-800-829-449.
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Monday, April 16th, 2007
For some strange reason, this site (onedigitallife.com) has started crashing Safari. It just started this afternoon. Every time I try to load the site, Safari crashes. No other sites seem to be doing it, and it’s held through a restart. None of my other sites hosted on this server are doing it, and the site works fine in Firefox.
Is this happening to anyone else?
UPDATE: I tried resetting Safari, disabling all plugins, and various maintenance tasks (repair permissions, repair drive, etc…), and nothing has worked, Safari still crashes. I tried accessing the site through Safari on my laptop, and it works fine, so that would suggest that it’s a problem with Safari on my desktop. So, I booted the desktop from an external firewire drive that has an old backup of my system (10.4.4). Guess what… it crashed that Safari too. That doesn’t make any sense at all. Anyone have any other suggestions?
UPDATE #2: So, just out of curiosity, I momentarily changed my Wordpress theme back to the default (Wordpress is the blogging engine used to run this site). Low and behold, I could open my site in Safari again. The moment I changed it back to my current theme, it crashes again. This makes even less sense, considering I haven’t made any changes to my theme lately, and plenty of people are able to view the current theme in Safari (including myself, on my other computer). This is just odd! Sometimes I just hate computers.
UPDATE #3: Thanks to a tip from Rob, I installed the Firebug add-on, for Firefox. It allowed me to see an error that was being intermittently generated by my site. Now, the actual language of the error is a bit over my head, but when I read it, I somehow got the idea that it was related to Snap Previews, a feature I use on the site. With a little investigation, I also discovered that Snap did announce some new “features” yesterday, so their change did correspond to the time that my trouble started. Sure enough, removing Snap solved the problem. Thanks Rob! Now, this doesn’t explain why this only seem to effect me, and not all Safari users, but I’m willing to let that be a mystery for another time.
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Thursday, April 12th, 2007
The NY Times has published an awesome, interactive guide for determining the financial benefits of buying, or renting a home. Basically, you put in all the relevant information, and it can give you costs for each year you are in the house, and at what point it becomes better to have bought, over renting. Of course, the numbers it gives are based on averages. It may not reflect costs specific to your area, but it’s still a good data point.
In order to access the guide, you’ll need to sign up for a NY Times account. It’s free, and only takes a minute. It’s time well spent if you’re thinking about moving.
via Vestal Design
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
I’m on my way to Phoenix, for a week. I had hoped to post a few stories before I left, but I just couldn’t get to it. You know how it is.
I’ll have my laptop with me and may get to some posts while I’m away, but if not, I’ll be back on the March 8th.
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Friday, February 9th, 2007
I just heard the news that Anne Nicole Smith died yesterday. I guess she’s been sick for a while, but the cause of death is still unknown.
She’s had a lot of weird troubles over the last several years, so I haven’t really payed attention. But in the early 90’s as the Guess Jeans girl, and Playboy Playmate, she fueled many a fantasy of this young man.
I’m sorry she lead such a troubled life. Rest in Peace, Anna.
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Thursday, February 1st, 2007
It’s Just a Plant: A Children’s Story About Marijuana, is, as the name implies, a children’s book about having a rational conversation with your kids about pot. It’s written, and beautifully illustrated by Ricardo Cortes, and several other contributing artists.
While I referred to the book as a rational conversation, it is clearly written from a point of view favorable to legalizing marijuana. But, it does stress that pot is for adults, and children should not be taking part. It’s an interesting read, whether you have kids or not.
The paperback will run you $15 (USD), but from now until February 14th, 2007, you can download the book for free in PDF format, from the website.
via Cool Hunting
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