At home, I've recently been using a Mac. At work, I use a Linux box.

My job entails running ~10 relatively busy sites. These sites are no Facebook, or Google; hell, these sites don't even crack the Alexa 100k.

This morning, we received an email stating that our estimated bandwidth usage over the past 10 minutes was 35Mbit per second. This would be an ok thing if our average usage wasn't closer to 9Mbit per second.

I've already written once about Daylight Saving and how much I hate it. It came back to bite me anyway.

In a few days, The Apple App Store will hit 25,000,000,000 downloads. They're making a grand promotion out of it, even giving the "winner" a $10,000 App Store gift card.

pv, or pipe viewer, has quickly become one of the most useful applications for me. Many times, I've started a long-running task, only to wonder after starting it, how much longer it was going to take.

UPDATE: I've added the guts of the script in the following post. A few months ago, we got our secondary MySQL server online.