Jul 14
Installing git on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)
Posted on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 in Technology
Last night I was working on a new ubuntu 9.04 server on ec2 (it was ami-0d729464 from http://alestic.com if you’re interested). Installing git via aptitude would have given me an older version so here’s what I did.
$ sudo apt-get build-dep git-core git-doc libssl-dev $ wget http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.3.3.tar.gz $ tar -xzf git-1.6.3.3.tar.gz $ cd git-1.6.3.3/ $ ./configure $ make all doc $ sudo make install install-doc $ git --version git version 1.6.3.3
Jul 25
Statistically Indistinguishable from Perfect
Posted on Friday, July 25, 2008 in Software Development
I loved the last sentence from Amazon’s recent explanation for the S3 outage:
Though we’re proud of our operational performance in operating Amazon S3 for almost 2.5 years, we know that any downtime is unacceptable and we won’t be satisfied until performance is statistically indistinguishable from perfect.
