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Congrats to Cirrus on Type Certificate for SF50 Jet
Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet – almost actual size! Congrats to Cirrus Aircraft on receiving an FAA type certificate for their new SF50 Vision Jet. I’ve been following the news on this during the last decade...
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GitLab Validating Ceph in Production For Me
GitLab.com: Spikes are Outages. OSD = Ceph Object Storage Daemon It would be easy for me to criticize GitLab for using a distributed file system in production, especially Ceph, in AWS. I just wouldn’t...
View ArticleTransAsia Airways Shuts Down After Two Horrific Accidents
Finally. TransAsia Shuts Down Amid Safety, Financial Problems
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Retro: GeoCities Cage Photos [1999]
I had a chance to see the GeoCities Exodus 1 cage in 2000 when I was at eBay Payments. It used LaCie JBOD stacked to the ceiling as storage devices, and a 3′ diameter floor fan to move the hot air to...
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apis.json File AKA sitemap.xml for APIs
apis.json is a site discovery format like sitemap.xml, but for your APIs. It is an open project to create a new standard by some ambitious API evangelists . Steps to create your own apis.json file:...
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Storage: Erasure Encoding Acceleration with Intel CPUs
There’s basically 3 ways to store online data, where “storage” includes block and/or network locations: filesystems on top of blocks (zfs, xfs, ext4) object stores across storage (OpenStack Swift,...
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Mac OS X TextEdit Reads and Writes Microsoft Word Formats
Wow. Who knew the little TextEdit application supports .doc, .docx and PDF formats? This actually worked for me today: I imported some Word 97/5.0 business documents updated and saved them and I...
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Cessna Skycatcher 162 Inventory Crushed
The sorry tale of the Cessna 162 Light Sport Aircraft (LSA) has finally concluded. The remaining 80 airplanes have been crushed with a backhoe outside the the Chinese factory, including the installed...
View ArticleStar Wars ‘Rogue One’ Review
I don’t often go to the movies, but saw ‘Rogue One’ with a date. The first half seemed kind of slow and disconnected, dealing with various rebel assassination plots (!) on Jedah and Eadu. Good visuals...
View ArticleNotes for Installing Percona Xtradb Cluster 5.7 on CentOS 5
Percona supports Percona Xtradb Cluster 5.7 on CentOS 6 and CentOS 7, but not CentOS 5. You can install the RPMs or tarball binary, but on start will see various package dependencies that can’t be...
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Ecommerce Weather Report for Manila in 2016
Current consumer ecommerce weather report for Manila in Dec., 2016 … End-users are wary of Facebook Pages commissions on retail listings, and “meh” on ebay for the same reason. So they’re going with...
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Aerodynamics: Rolling Gs
Avweb has an interesting article on ‘Extreme Maneuvering’ about practical applications of the FAA commercial aerobatic maneuvers (chandelles, lazy 8’s, steep spirals) that mentioned “rolling G’s.” A...
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Microservices: Java MicroProfile Links
From the MicroProfile FAQ: “The MicroProfile is a baseline platform definition that optimizes Enterprise Java for a microservices architecture and delivers application portability across multiple...
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eBay Bucks Base Earnings Now 1%
PSA: “Changes to eBay Bucks Rewards Program starting January 1, 2017 Effective January 1, 2017 the Base earnings are changing from 2% to 1%.” Guess I’ll be advising sellers to wait for 8% or 10% eBay...
View ArticlePerl and Monotonic Time Functions
Perl on Linux supports the POSIX C clock_gettime() function to get the monotonic time (always increasing system time, except for variable overflow) values: Comparing monotonic time values: avoid...
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SpaceX Launch Begins Era of Space-Based ADS-B Tracking
The big news from the SpaceX launch of 10 Aireon Iridium 2G “Next” satellites is that ADS-B was also included on each satellite. ADS-B is used for tracking and sending ATC digital information to...
View ArticleOdd but Handy URLs
Organization Link Purpose Apple http://captive.apple.com/ non-SSL ProbeURL for WiFi hand-shaking. Replaces success.html. Google http://www.google.com/ncr force plain English site (“no country...
View ArticleSuper Bowl LI 2017
Best Super Bowl that I can remember, with first Super Bowl Overtime. The New England Patriots (QB Tom Brady) came from behind to win 34-28 over the Atlanta Falcons (QB Matt Ryan). Atlanta scored 3 TD’s...
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Free Mac OS X PDF Editors
When you need to edit a PDF, you really need to edit a PDF. The free Preview app that comes with Mac OS X can annotate and do some simple operations on PDF files, but does not have a feature to edit...
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Advanced Swagger UI Techniques
The benefits of using Swagger are to maintain consistent API specifications, validation and documentation. And the Swagger UI tool initially looks very attractive cosmetically, however there’s no...
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