Brian Mark - Guitaraholic

I'm back at looking into ecommerce sites. The good news? I have found something interesting that ecommerce site owners all over are going to want to see for themselves. The bad news? They can't see it yet as I'm still developing it. Give me a few days and I'll start sharing some of the insights that I get as I finish this project. It should be quite revealing when people start utilizing it.

Since people seem to enjoy seeing our hardware (server pron), I thought I'd show our current setup again. I'll start at the bottom of our rack. This is a pic with a few things. First, it's got the white system, which is our memcache box. Just your basic setup (dual dual-core opterons, mirrored 250gig SATA drives, and 32gigs of RAM) for temporary storage of blocks of output. Above it is our Breach WebDefend appliance. I'm not sure the specs (dual quads and 4 gigs of RAM I think), but since it's sold as an appliance it doesn't really matter. Last in this pic are 3 APC power management boxes. Since quite a few of our devices only have one power supply, this allows us to plug them all in to both power sources in case of an outage. Continuing on up the line, we have one of our oldest servers. We call it www1, although being a www server isn't something it does any more. It basically runs cron jobs on its dual xeon processors with 8gigs of RAM and mirrored 80gig S...

Somehow, it seems I need to defrag my system. I'm not sure I had seen one this bad before. Yay, me.

I recently got a new app for my iPod Touch to track stats . Since it wouldn't format well on the forum I was trying to share them on, I've listed them here. Match Statistics by Tennis Trakker Pro Event: Fun Match Date recorded: 2009 04 18 @ 14:02 Play time: 2 hours - 14 min. Brian vs. Dana 6 Set 1 7 5 Set 2 7 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 General Play 172 Points played 172 48% (82/172) Points won (90/172) 52% 52% (90/172) Points lost (82/172) 48% (4/12) Break conversion (5/8) (3/8) Break saved (8/12) Serves 48% (42/87) 1st serves in (50/84) 60% 69% (29/42) 1st serves won (31/50) 62% 78% (35/45) 2nd serves in (26/34) 76% 54% (19/35) 2nd serves won (20/26) 77% 3 Aces 1st serve 0 3 Aces 2nd serve 0 0 Foot faults 0 10 Double faults 8 Ground game - Winners 20% (11/54) Forehand (6/37) 16% 5% (1/21) Backhand (1/16) 6% 50% (2/4) Volley (3/6) 50% 50% (1/2) Overhead (2/2) 100% 0% (0/1) Lob (1/1) 100% 100% (2/2) Drop shot (1/2) 50% 17 Total winners 14 Ground Game - Unforced Errors 48% (26/54) Forehan...

I tried playing Matt's latest video, and it turns out he only makes Chrome sad by doing so... Anyway, it's really cool that chrome can kill flash within a tab without killing the tab, but I find that it has to do that quite often with YouTube content. Just one more reason I don't need to use YouTube. Maybe I should restart my browser more than every other week... nah!

I got a survey from Sun about our not renewing MySQL support. That's fine, I can answer those types of questions, but please - don't make me think about it. That just takes too much time to figure out what number I want to choose. Hopefully the database on the other end understands the confused responses.

According to his report card, my son is a know-it-all. I just love the wording for the checkbox at the bottom... "knows all"... CHECK