Monthly Archives: October 2007

Understanding the effect of MQ persistence on disk performance

Do you use MQ? do you have performance problems when using persistence? An interesting article on understanding this on a Solaris platform. Koops has always been an informative source on getting my MQ performance under check, and again he comes to the front of the pack on analysis of performance issues. read more | digg …

October 9, 2007 – 14:29 | By lantrix | Posted in MQ, unix | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Australians Soldiers in the Middle East

With the news of the death of an Australian soldier in the middle east, I would like to quickly examine the dangers our troops face. I served an extended period of time in the Australian Defence forces, and have had family members deployed to conflict zones including Iraq, so I have some understanding of the …

October 9, 2007 – 13:49 | By lantrix | Posted in news | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

WordPress Upgrade hiccups

I upgraded to WordPress 2.3 recently, but it stuffed up my feed. By default it set the feed content to be cut off. This is now fixed, so sorry for any inconvenience. On the whole, wordpress 2.3 seems to work rather well.

October 9, 2007 – 13:20 | By lantrix | Posted in internet | Tagged | Comments (0)

Up the Irons! Somewhere Back In Time 2008 Tour

I got myself some Iron Maiden tickets for their Somewhere back in time 2008 tour. The latest news about the Aussie events is that the Melbourne and Sydney concerts sold out in Record time. Sydney’s Acer Arena sold out within 25 minutes of going on sale and Melbourne’s Rod Laver Arena sold out within 15 …

October 4, 2007 – 23:48 | By lantrix | Posted in music | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)