Finally, a USB mic that’s not only easy to use, but sounds as good on your desktop as it does in a professional recording studio. Meet the Snowball,™ theworld’s first professional USB mic.

This is the best PC mic I've ever used.

BlueMic :: Blue Microphones

Two Node MYSQL HA Cluster with Heartbeat and MON

This document describes how to build a two node MYSQL Failover Cluster using Heartbeat and MON. I have tested this on Linux ( Redhat ) , but this should work on any *NIX distributions.

Kishore Jalleda - ��� Mysql failover with Heartbeat and MON

Bug tracking, issue tracking, & project management

Tracking and managing the issues and bugs that emerge during a project is a critically important task, but one that few teams do effectively.

JIRA is a bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management application developed to make this process easier for your team. JIRA has been designed with a focus on task achievement, is instantly usable and is flexible to work with.

JIRA - Bug tracking, issue tracking and project management software

Install Subversion with Web Access on Ubuntu

This article covers installing subversion with the apache module so that it can be easily accessed from other systems on a public network. If you want a more secure svn server, you could use svnserve ssh, which isn't covered in this article.

A really, really painless and quick guide to installing web-accessed svn on ubuntu.

Install Subversion with Web Access on Ubuntu :: the How-To Geek

This tutorial shows how to set up a two-node Apache web server cluster that provides high-availability. In front of the Apache cluster we create a load balancer that splits up incoming requests between the two Apache nodes. Because we do not want the load balancer to become another "Single Point Of Failure", we must provide high-availability for the load balancer, too. Therefore our load balancer will in fact consist out of two load balancer nodes that monitor each other using heartbeat, and if one load balancer fails, the other takes over silently.

How To Set Up A Loadbalanced High-Availability Apache Cluster | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

This article presents our experience on setting up a mod_perl-based server on a VPS. The article also touches upon the utility of mod_proxy in this context, and that of mod_deflate in general. Using the right technologies will not only keep hosting costs under control, but also reduce them when deployed correctly.

ONLamp.com -- Scaling Dynamic Websites with Apache Modules

(critical) Bug #1 (liberation), first reported on 2004-08-20 by Mark Shuttleworth
Microsoft has a majority market share

Humor... friends.

Bug #1 in Ubuntu: “Microsoft has a majority market share”

At PyCon '08, I gave a talk on testing and the OLPC project where I referred to the "Testing Death Spiral". My accompanying slide, which aimed to be simple rather than comprehensive, had this scenario:

1.

Write a bunch of code & manually test it.

(Good so far.)
2.

Start adding features over here.
3.

Watch code break over there.
4.

Rinse, lather, repeat

(Where do you think this ends?)

Daily Life in an Ivory Basement : /mar-08/software-quality-death-spiral.html

In the United States, modafinil is approved by the FDA for the treatment of narcolepsy, obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea and shift work sleep disorder. In some countries, it is also approved for idiopathic hypersomnia (all forms of excessive daytime sleepiness where causes can't be established).

Interesting stimulant.

Modafinil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wow, this is handy. Its a web version of photoshop's little color picker. It tells you the color code of the color you pick on the 2d pallete. Great for web shenanigans.

Colors - Pick n' Harmonize!