the reality tunnel

“Already, Brazil spends more in licensing fees on proprietary software than it spends on hunger,”
said Barlow, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a cyberspace civil liberties group.

i went to louisville for mike and billy’s drag birthday party with madeline and hannah. it was good to get out of town, though perhaps inopportune timing given that there’s a ton of stuff to get done for tour. it was nice to hang out with the louisville kids and to dress like [...]

i decided to walk up 7th street to work today. it seems like i always ride up 6th these days. maybe the change today happened because i was walking and 6th is less hilly and more fun to ride a bike on, or maybe, feeling better about other things, my subconscious didn’t need [...]

the heating guy from airtech came today. seemed to be in a rush. one thing that he noticed was that the thermostat was wired wrong so that the air conditioning was coming on along with the heat, so they were working against each other, not heating very efficiently. he said that the furnace [...]

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so it looks like the bottleneck for most indymedia installations is mysql. the mtop tool might be useful for determining when its neccessary to switch over to more static content or to do some kind of cacheing.
http://mtop.sourceforge.net/
this article seems helpful too:
http://www.mysql.com/news-and-events/newsletter/2004-01/a0000000301.html

this page:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,2737069~root=equip,16~mode=flat
was pretty helpful after struggling for about an hour with this.

this article which was on /. might come in handy if i ever work on adding ogg tagging to cctools (if it hasn’t been implemented already)

jonny mayhem posted this on friendster:
I know that this a week late, but for those of you
who are looking to give money to tsunami relief
but want to be sure that you not are supporting an
NGO with questionable politics, here is a list of
[...]

sparky vs. the telemarketer