Face detection with PHP
Maurice Svay has written a pure PHP face recognition script - its quite cool!
Amazon EC2 EBS Initial Benchmarks
Now that Amazon EBS, or Elastic Block Store is publicly available, a lot of people are probably interested in some benchmarks!
The setup;
m1.small instance
alestic/debian-5.0-lenny-base-20080803.manifest.xml
All that was installed was mdadm & bonnie++.
Single disc performance
Mounting a single 1gb EBS volume to /dev/sdd,
128k block
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd bs=128k
dd: writing `/dev/sdd’: No space left on device
8193+0 records in
8192+0 records out
1073741824 bytes [...]
Rant: HeartInternet - .co.uk domains from only 9p
9p for a .co.uk domain - seems like a bargin, too good to be true…there must be some catch…?
Kohana & Lighttpd: A quick way of doing pretty URL’s
Want to use Kohana & Lighttd with pretty URL’s? Check out this method…
An idea for improving trust on sales and customer service calls
I get an innordanate amount of phone calls from people trying to upgrade my mobile phone, most of them, it turns out that most of them are not actually from the phone company at all. They are deliberatly misleading about this though.
This post is a quick and simple proposal to enable companies to verify that they are in fact someone you should believe is who they say they are.
Fancy URL’s with Laconica - updated!
I’ve rewritten the lighttpd config for Laconi.ca using the sample htaccess that comes with the project - we now have an up to date version for fancy URL’s with Lighttpd