Server Cooling
January 19, 2007 15:49
A small fact I’ve learned today about server farm cooling: In Finland, they don’t cool server rooms.
They just ventilate, or open a window.
Zend_Db_Table Code Generator
January 5, 2007 19:55
I’m working on a small Zend Framework based app for work, and following a discussion in fw-db@lists.zend.com I created a small and crude code generator that connects to a specified DB and produces a series of files, each containing a Zend_Db_Table extending class that represents a table in the DB. [more...]
Upgrade to 2.6.19 kernel issues
14:17
I have been quite busy lately, trying to find a new apartment in Tel Aviv (not an easy task), and under allot of work. I’ve decided to take advantage of the rainy weekend to do some maintainence on my laptop, including a kernel upgrade from 2.6.18 to 2.6.19 (Gentoo ck-sources).
It seems that 2.6.19 introduced some major changes in ATA/SATA drives. For some reason, my SATA drive is no longer /dev/sda as it always was, but is now /dev/hda (which kind of makes sense, as it is not a SCSI device…). This in turn caused quite a headache - it has been long since I had to work hard for a kernel upgrade. [more...]
