I'm a big believer in having the best tools possible for the job. I've gone through at least 3 Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard 4000's, and used to think those were the best keyboards ever (as did Jeff Atwood). Well, there is whole world of keyboards…
From the "this might help some random person" department - setting up manual Thinkpad fan control in Arch Linux. Edit /etc/rc.conf. Add thinkpad_acpi to MODULES=() in the hardware section. Create a new file enabling fan control as /etc/modprobe.d/thinkfan.conf: options thinkpad_acpi…
I've been working with Socket.io quite a bit recently. It's a great library. However, after upgrading to 0.8.x, I ran into problems with increased CPU usage. Since performance is very important for high traffic pubsub implementations, I decided to investigate this further -…
This is mostly just a reminder for myself - but I always learn new things when I read how other people set up their system. Leave a comment if you have a tip - that's how I learned about wicd-gtk :). Oh, and install my window manager (tiling, written…
I've spent some time recently figuring out the options for deploying Websockets with SSL and load balancing - and more specifically, Socket.IO - while allowing for dual stacks (e.g. Node.js and another dev platform). Since there seems to be very little concrete guidance on this…