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I've been putting the finishing touches on the first draft of my thesis. I'd like to get citations nailed down now so that I do not have to go back and fix everything later.

Instead of using the rather dated newapa package, I've switched my draft to the apacite package. The moment I went to generate a pdf, I was met with the following two errors.

Argument of \@@cite has an extra }.
...
Paragraph ended before \@@cite was complete.

Ran into an interesting and frustrating performance problem with a site at work today. Any OSX or derivative system (iPhone, iPod, or laptop/workstation) was seeing extremely poor performance when visiting a site using Tomcat 6 and Apache's mod_proxy (specifically mod_proxy_ajp) with a couple ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse directives.

Searching around a little I finally found this helpful post that seemed to describe the problem users were experiencing:
http://betabug.ch/blogs/ch-athens/933

Saw this rsnapshot error this morning on a couple new Xen domUs that I created last week:

[08/Mar/2010:08:12:53] /usr/bin/rsnapshot hourly: ERROR: /usr/bin/rsync returned 255 while processing root@foo.bar:/
[08/Mar/2010:08:12:53] touch /backups/hourly.0/
[08/Mar/2010:08:12:53] rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
[08/Mar/2010:08:12:53] /usr/bin/rsnapshot hourly: ERROR: /usr/bin/rsnapshot hourly: completed, but with some errors

I recently setup a Drupal 6.x installation with the apachesolr module. It was not as straightforward as I was expecting so I've made a few notes here. The most frustrating part is the Tomcat & Solr setup, after that the Drupal module works flawlessly.

I used this wiki page about Solr and Tomcat as a basic guide. First thing to do is to download and setup tomcat. I used the setup script we use at work for Tomcat (available here) to download and install Tomcat 5.5.27 in /usr/local/tomcat. Note that you can use any servelet container like Jetty, JBoss etc.



Get your's today!

With thanks to Friendly Atheist.

As usual, Mr. Condell lunges straight for the jugular. You've gotta love it!


What a great image for a Tee-shirt.

Thanks to God is for Suckers!



With thanks to Pharyngula.