Boat People SOS, Meeting Urgent Needs Today, Empowering Vietnamese Communities for Tomorrow.

New Site Is Based On Open-Source, Community Organizing TechnologyMarch 27, 2006 - Falls Church, VA - Boat People SOS (BPSOS) is pleased to announce the launch of the organization's newly re-designed website.

A Drupal 4.7 site with a good cause.

Strange. Somehow I have the feeling that in 10 years, today (March 26th of 2006) will be seen as "The day that marks Microsoft decline". Read minimsft blog, including (most) of the comments. It's an insiders blog with insiders comments. Yes, they are anonymous but clearly (ex) MSFT people.

Social trends are easy to predict. Just take a look at students and gays. They pick up these social trends or even make them before they go mainstream. This holds true for TV shows, clothing etc.

Technical trends are easy to predict. Just take a look at youngsters and opensource people. They pick up these trends or even make them before they go mainstream. This holds true for the OS they use (MAC, Linux) and stuff they do (first the internet, now web 2.0)

And now read the Mini MSFT blog again. And look around on where the innovations starts and what the people that are the core of this innovation do. They organise themselves, coordinate successful summits, use powerbooks, make rich internet applications and work for Google.

Strange. Somehow I have the feeling that in 10 years, today (March 26th of 2006) will be seen as "The day that marks Microsoft decline".

zattevrienden.be is een van de bekendste en grootse belgische sites. 16 frontend servers, 250Mb traffic, hosted by adulthoster realroot.be (die weer de mooitse rackspace heeft). En natuurlijk draaiend op Drupal.

Er is en kleine nederlandse versie van WhiteLineFirm.nl. Ook NSFW, ook hosted by realroot.be en ook gemaakt met Drupal. Zo'n 600 bezoeker teregelijketijd, dus slechts 2 a 3 keer zo groot als willy.

The last couple of days willy has been extreem slow. willy was always slow, but a load of 60 is not something that is normal. I do get a lot of visits laterly (welcome) but thats only part of the problem. Every now and than MySQL goes beserk.

I did do some tweaking on MySQL the other day, but not enough. Now it seems that one of the tables crashed in a bad way. While doing a repair, I found out that the table for bad behaviour (a Drupal module that seperates bad humans and bad bots from good humans and bots) died:

Google to the rescue and I was able to repair the table:

I hope the MySQL props are now over and willy will gain some speed again. Because this is not funny to find in your sar -q:

09:10:11 PM 22 174 17.68 7.81 4.46
09:11:14 PM 33 198 24.77 11.29 5.84
09:20:33 PM 1 559 48.07 30.69 17.55
09:30:02 PM 0 71 27.72 37.24 27.10

:-(