wade womersley leeds based web developer

Ubuntu…it’s a great Linux OS to use on servers due to its speed and simplicity – personal preference based on no statistics, only personal use. However, one thing Linux drives me mad with is software RAID. It’s taken me the better part of a day to set up a few RAID partitions, two of which are joined via LVM (2 lots of mirrored disks, one big “partition” to store stuff on across all 4 disks). Persuading a developer in our office at work that Whitespace is better than PHP or persuading Ben that all graphs are excellent, informative tools would be easier tasks.

It seems that today we’ve managed to solve most of our current MySQL database issues are fixed now too with one very simple change to our Master->Slaves setup – use ROW based binary logging only, not statement. The slaves are now never lagging more than 2-3 seconds behind the master even with thousands of writes per second across around 100 connections.

Opera 10 has now been released and can be downloaded from the official Opera website.

It is available in 43 different languages for Windows, Linux and Mac.

New features include:

• Opera turbo
  Opera’s proxy servers are now used for image and content compression so even people on a slower connection should experience a speed boost.
• Inline spell check
  A feature that everyone who posts online should use, input fields now auto spell check entered text.
• Auto update
  Opera will now automatically update itself
• Faster rendering engine
  The new Opera Presto 2.2 engine in Opera 10 claims to be 40 per cent faster on resource intensive pages such as Gmail and Facebook.
• Visual tabs
  The Tab bar of Opera 10 shows thumbnails of open pages in the form of visual tabs.

I’m sure I’ll give it a go but doubt I’ll wander from Firefox. I love Opera mini on my phone but even then I wish I could replace it with Firefox (hurry up Fennec!)