Kelp's blog of semi-interesting stuff. http://plek.org/?action=feed 2008-10-13T15:49:26-07:00 Chyrp 47.61157-122.30406http://creativecommons.org/images/public/somerights20.gifplekhttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakes tag:plek.org,2008-10-13:/id/10/ 2008-10-13T15:52:50-07:00 2008-10-13T15:49:26-07:00 Travis Cole http://plek.org/ <p>I’ve updated the Ubuntu Nginx package to version 0.6.32 and added the <a href="http://nginx.localdomain.pl/wiki/UpstreamFair">Upstream Fair Balancer</a> module. We’re testing this for use at <a href="http://www.ilike.com/">iLike</a> and I figured this would be useful for others.</p> <p>If you’d like to give my package a try, must add these lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list, or to their own file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/</p> <pre><code> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/calmkelp/ubuntu hardy main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/calmkelp/ubuntu hardy main </code></pre> <p>As of this writing these packages have the <a href="http://github.com/gnosek/nginx-upstream-fair/commit/dc897c042014999694a0bcdbfa0a1b58adb84df6">latest version</a> of the Upstream Fair Balancer module.</p> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=nTHAMpZyAJw:6DvjQKYxCWE:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?i=nTHAMpZyAJw:6DvjQKYxCWE:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=nTHAMpZyAJw:6DvjQKYxCWE:YwkR-u9nhCs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?d=YwkR-u9nhCs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=nTHAMpZyAJw:6DvjQKYxCWE:3QFJfmc7Om4"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?i=nTHAMpZyAJw:6DvjQKYxCWE:3QFJfmc7Om4" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=nTHAMpZyAJw:6DvjQKYxCWE:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://plek.org/2008/10/13/nginx-ubuntu-packages-with-the-fair-proxy-balance-module/ tag:plek.org,2008-09-08:/id/9/ 2008-09-08T23:04:18-07:00 2008-09-08T23:04:18-07:00 Travis Cole http://plek.org/ <p>I’ve been using <a href="http://www.hulu.com">Hulu</a> to catch up on the premiers I’ve missed. Their new <em>higher</em> definition (still only 480p, but it’s a huge improvement) is nice, but almost unbearably choppy in full screen. This is on Windows XP (yeah, I know… I’ve been playing a lot of games lately and Cedgea is too much work) with the flash plugin or ActiveX control. My CPU has both cores pegged. This is a Core 2 Duo E6600, yeah a couple of revs old, but still pretty recent hardware.</p> <p>The fix is just installing the <a href="http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/">Flash Player 10</a> beta. Now my CPU sits at 50% and video is smooth!</p> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=VylLKIJphrM:G1TeO4McTJg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?i=VylLKIJphrM:G1TeO4McTJg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=VylLKIJphrM:G1TeO4McTJg:YwkR-u9nhCs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?d=YwkR-u9nhCs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=VylLKIJphrM:G1TeO4McTJg:3QFJfmc7Om4"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?i=VylLKIJphrM:G1TeO4McTJg:3QFJfmc7Om4" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=VylLKIJphrM:G1TeO4McTJg:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://plek.org/2008/09/08/choppy-full-screen-video-on-hulu-and-the-fix/ tag:plek.org,2008-09-08:/id/8/ 2008-09-08T20:09:39-07:00 2008-09-08T17:58:55-07:00 Travis Cole http://plek.org/ <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NBtbG5xjFBY&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NBtbG5xjFBY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><p>Obama ad slamming the McCain “Maverick” brand. I’m very happy to see Obama hitting this head on.</p> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=SLdNuyr0Pow:IgEXG8KwHoU:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?i=SLdNuyr0Pow:IgEXG8KwHoU:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=SLdNuyr0Pow:IgEXG8KwHoU:YwkR-u9nhCs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?d=YwkR-u9nhCs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=SLdNuyr0Pow:IgEXG8KwHoU:3QFJfmc7Om4"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?i=SLdNuyr0Pow:IgEXG8KwHoU:3QFJfmc7Om4" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=SLdNuyr0Pow:IgEXG8KwHoU:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://plek.org/2008/09/08/obama_slamming_mccain_video/ tag:plek.org,2008-09-08:/id/7/ 2008-09-08T12:32:43-07:00 2008-09-08T12:32:43-07:00 Travis Cole http://plek.org/ <p>Amazing pictures of various hurricanes.</p> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=dLjM3x4WChI:5mJCfdgyAV4:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?i=dLjM3x4WChI:5mJCfdgyAV4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=dLjM3x4WChI:5mJCfdgyAV4:YwkR-u9nhCs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?d=YwkR-u9nhCs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=dLjM3x4WChI:5mJCfdgyAV4:3QFJfmc7Om4"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?i=dLjM3x4WChI:5mJCfdgyAV4:3QFJfmc7Om4" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=dLjM3x4WChI:5mJCfdgyAV4:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/hurricanes_as_seen_from_orbit.html tag:plek.org,2008-09-07:/id/6/ 2008-09-07T12:56:30-07:00 2008-09-07T12:55:44-07:00 Travis Cole http://plek.org/ <p>Cross posted from <a href="http://blog.plek.org/">blog.plek.org</a>.</p> <p>I’ve decided to run my own blog software again, so I’m moving from blogger back to <a href="http://plek.org/">plek.org</a>. Any new content will be posted there. I’ve pointed feedburner at the new site, so the handful of people subscribing that way will just pickup the new site. This site will remain since some pages do get a few hits every now and then. I may import all my content into my new site, but that will take some work.</p> <p>I intend to post more, but intentions mean nothign without actions. We’ll see if how it really turns out. :)</p> <p>The new site runs on my <a href="http://www.slicehost.com">Slicehost</a> slice, using <a href="http://www.chyrp.net">Chyrp</a>, a fairly new and lightweight blog engine. So far I’m quite happy with out. I still have a bunch of layout tweaks to do, so there will be subtle weirdness along the way. It’s not like I actually get real traffic, so I just edit the live sites templates and CSS.</p> <div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=VDWTSEGJgjc:M0SW7Vf81X8:F7zBnMyn0Lo"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?i=VDWTSEGJgjc:M0SW7Vf81X8:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=VDWTSEGJgjc:M0SW7Vf81X8:YwkR-u9nhCs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?d=YwkR-u9nhCs" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=VDWTSEGJgjc:M0SW7Vf81X8:3QFJfmc7Om4"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?i=VDWTSEGJgjc:M0SW7Vf81X8:3QFJfmc7Om4" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?a=VDWTSEGJgjc:M0SW7Vf81X8:dnMXMwOfBR0"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/plek?d=dnMXMwOfBR0" border="0"></img></a> </div> http://plek.org/2008/09/07/moved-back-to-plekorg/