One of my little projects has been trying to resurrect a corner of web history. It seems like a normal enough story: there used to be a website, it went away, the guy who made it has no backups. Of course, the Wayback Machine has copies of nearly everything, and…
nginx is an awesome web server. If you haven't heard of it, that's okay; it has a lot of other users. The problem I have a project that involves a bunch of nginx servers in a bunch of different locations. If one of them stops working, I'd like to stop…
My 2013 skydiving season is now complete. I made my last jump an hour ago, a 5-way RW jump, landing on a borrowed Katana 150. It was my 840th jump total, and my 500th jump of the year. I had a great year skydiving. It's sad that it's over, but…
It's the last weekend of the season and I'm still experimenting with different canopies. This time, it's a Katana 150 I'm borrowing from a friend. Airspeed Returning to a Katana after the demo Crossfire 2, I find that I adore the increased airspeed. I can fly faster on this Katana…
I noticed that copying a 7 GB file from my Drobo 5D to my internal SSD took forever to complete – as in, over a minute. (Life is hard!) My Drobo can read significantly faster than that, and my SSD can write faster than that, so what's the deal? I pop…
I needed to copy data from one MongoDB database to another. MongoDB supplies the mongodump and mongorestore tools to do exactly that. I haven't had to use them lately, so the first thing I do is to check the command line options: $ mongodump --help Export MongoDB data to BSON files…