Archive for October, 2006
Thursday, October 12th, 2006
Scaling to Infinity Seminar
I went to a seminar on Oracle partitioning and data warehousing earlier this week call “Scaling to Infinity” by Tim Gorman. It gave me some new ideas, and reinforced some others, for where we should take our architecture at the U.
Here are some notes that I will hopefully talk more about as I research them.
Functions [...]
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
Dreamhost
I finished moving everything to the new host last night. I am done with the old host and their skimpy disk space allowance and am now on Dreamhost.com. They’ve given me 200GB disk space that will grow by 1GB per week. (My old host gave me 1GB total.) How did I learn about Dreamhost? Through [...]
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
Don’t Blame Taxes for Your Problems
So I’m reading this article by David Peterson in the Minneapolis Star Tribune this morning. (No link, they take down articles after two weeks anyway.) The article discusses how housing is accounting for larger percent of people’s take-home pay. And it starts out discussing how peoples’ mortgages have gone up. An example was $600 to [...]