I've been trying to find some real data on running perl through mod_perl or through the more normal /cgi-bin/. I know you should have some speed gains and such versus running it as a compiled version or script. But I can't seem to find any good data on just how much of a speed boost you get, and what the real downsides are to using it over /cgi-bin if there are any at all...
It's late, and admittedly I'm a little out of it but you'd think it would be fairly easy to quantify and fairly easy to come across. Bah.
posted on February 25, 2003 at 11:18 PMMarathon work session for a deadline over the last few days... it's going through their testing department over tonight which means I may or may not get called, but probably not. Which means I get a whole night's sleep tonight, in contrast to the 1 a night I've gotten for the last 3 days and then back to the grindstone for 2 more days to get anything touched up that needs it. Crunch time is a bitch...
Rumor has it that the upcoming build of Safari has debug-support for tabbed browsing. I really hope it's true, as it stands there are only a few things I need from Safari to make it my default browser:
- Tabbed Browsing
- Username/Password Autofill
- Just a bit more optimization
I currently switch between Safari & Chimera for the most part, with Mozilla and IE used for specific sites that just don't seem to play nice. Tabbed browsing isn't a must, but it sure is nice. User/Pass autofill is just something I've come to rely on in Chimera and Mozilla as I have way too many password-protected sites to visit each day. As for the last, Safari just has some odd bugs where it gets hung up... it sputters a lot. But it's a beta, and that should be expected.
With tabbed browsing, Safari will really be putting the hurt on the other browsers and their niches... but more on that later.
I've been reading the 10th book in Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" series, "Crossroads of Twilight", and I have to say I'm woefully disappointed...
Salon is reporting that the PA state courts have ruled that ISP's have to block child porn sites from subscribers. Since Salon is probably going to go the way of the dodo, here is an excerpt...
Let's hear it for grant money. Apparently Darwin's theory of evolution is undermined due to certain monkies showing lesbian tendancies.
I really can't imagine how much time and money was wasted on this. Hell, when I was a boy I had pigmy frogs that would take to humping rocks every once in awhile. I can't imagine what that says about evolution.
Caught up on the last 2 buffy episodes tonight from tape, really enjoyed them... I dunno, it just felt like the fun old buffy episodes I remember. I still have 2 angel episodes to get through, 2 west wings and 3 ed's. For shame.
I am in danger of acquiring Fox's Fastlane as a guilty pleasure. I taped last weeks because I heard Robert Forrester was going to be in it, and I just love that guy. Pleasantly surprised by the show, heavily stylized. I thought I was watching MTV or "Miami Vice:2000" at some points. But all the actors pull their roles off, as silly as they are... Even ms saved by the bell. Ah well, It's piqued my interest enough that I'll tape it this week and watch it if time allows.
This is starting to grate on me... I'm enjoying Safari more, but I'm so used to tabs that when the screen gets cluttered I minimize windows, then forget they are there and quit the app once I've read through the visible ones and closed them... I've done this about 3 times.
Either bring in tabs apple, or at least add a message saying "you have minimized documents, are you sure you want to quit?".
I'm really starting to get annoyed at BBEdit.
I love it- it's one of my favorite apps, yet for some reason after a few minutes it decides to flash the screen whenever I type a quote mark, and inserts a backquote instead. I've checked accessibility preferences, and there is just no rhyme or reason to it.. quitting the app and relaunching cures it for awhile.
I really hate random weirdness.
No sign of the kangaroo princess tonight, I do believe her computer is on the fritz.
I'm a little worried. I got some of this stuff ages ago, a few cases actually, as a sort of bonus from a client who knew I had a fondness for all things caffeinated...
For some reason I've just spent the last few hours upgrading more perl modules for ru42. Nautilus didn't really need it, but I'd alread whipped up a shell script and everything went well... so why not.
Cpan just makes it soooo easy to download the source, do a checksum and make install. I can't imagine what it was like before that.
Imagemagik has been upgraded to the newest, so it will work with things like movabletype through perl scripts, but not through chrooted virtual shells. Doesn't seem to be a pressing need, so I'm not worrying about it.
3 fricking updates within a few days of each other, the last two within 5 hours of each other... and the last one is a security fix that has to get updated. Kind of annoyed, but at the moment I still like it better than the others I've used.
And of course all these people who have to have their blogs aren't exactly going to be able to do it themselves...
We've been toying with rolling this out on the servers as a service, but with updates like this it could just get too monstrous to maintain... plus I'm not even sure if that's allowed with their current fubar licensing.
I suppose you could put together some shell scripts, but the time savings wouldn't be that big I don't think. Perhaps centralizing movabletype, with hardlinks to the chrooted accounts?
Aaaaaw yeah.
Classic isn't going to go down without a fight, and even if you aren't using it it wants to let you know its still there...
People either get it or they don't. I'm on a lot of lists, and while I screw up sometimes some of the attitudes out there are just plain silly. You know them. My personal pet peeves, in no particular order:
NetNewsWire 1.0 has been released, go get your copy here.
Yeah, its $30 for the full version, which is a little pricey for what it does. But the freeware version is fantastic too. I'm seriously starting to love this app.
It's fast, lean, does what it says and has a focus. I'd call it a showcase app for cocoa, but then again it isn't exactly very complex.
Plus, you can subscribe to my blog if you're so inclined, using this feed:
http://www.drunkenbatman.com/drunkenblog/index.rdf
I was just informed by a friend that her roomie (who up to this point was under no suspicion) spends a lot of time skinning and stuffing hamsters for her job at a lab at her school.
Due to the heebeejeebies this caused, I neglected to find out why on earth a lab would have need of a bunch of stuffed hamsters. Least I have conversation topic for the next encounter, now.
Yep, I've bowed to the pressure and have created a new blog. Everyone seems to have one, and everyone seems to want me to have one.
Seemed like a good time, since I had to do a few installs of movable type, and updating the perl modules. Imagemagick is now installed, woo woo.
I really had let the older site go, it just got too annoying to update all the pages... at 400+ pages it had just lost its real purpose. So I'm considering this to be a new beginning, with the same spelling errors. Excitement.
No way am I am porting over all the old content from the old site/journal thing, but I could respost specific info from the old one.
So, here's to beginnings.
