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Professional programmer; amateur home handyman (on our home only); tinkerer; husband; father of 3; attempting to be a renaissance guy (to know at least a little about a lot of subjects, a doomed pursuit in an information age); geek-arts-and-sciences enthusiast. Interest areas: Science fiction, wind turbines, electric cars, renewable energy, making things.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Solved: Pymongo findAndModify example collection object not callable

I just blew an hour with a silly mistake (or two!) I have an MongoDB collection with a bunch of documents I'm accessing via pymongo. ...

Friday, March 08, 2013

Trying to build Python and a set of Python libraries on an AIX 6.1 box. Starting with both gcc and IBM xlc compilers handy, this will be a...

MongoDB - How to Easily Pre-Split Chunks

Okay, so I'm doing some performance testing on MongoDB, spinning up a new configuration, and then throwing lots of data at it to see wha...

Friday, January 04, 2013

MongoDB Shard Stats One-Liner

I've been testing, and I want to get the shard stats in one line. That is I want this: krice@zaphod:~/$ mongo --host boxname303.e...

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Postgres pgdb connect with connect timeout

So, here's a little FYI. I'm trying to connect to a Postgres database and pass in a connection timeout. Whatever the default is s...

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Sysstat make: o: Command not found

I was compiling sysstat for Centos 6 with a --prefix option, but kept getting a set of errors like: make: o: Command not found make: [nls/s...

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Compiling rsyslog for CENTOS 6.1

So, I was in dependency hell yesterday. It's one of the outer circles, nearby the region for people who drop gum on carpet. I was tr...

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