Google AdWords Incorrectly Identifies “Bridge Page”

The Backstory:

At work, we have a division dedicated to staffing and recruiting IT and Engineering professionals. This division has their own website, which is designed to market to employers seeking these types of candidates. Naturally, these types of candidates will wander and stumble upon this site even though it’s designed to attract employers. In [...]

gparted, dd, and ghex2 – Oh My! To The Rescue!

So, I was messing around with an XP virtual machine that was out of disk space. For some dumb reason, I thought 4GB of hard disk space was plenty for XP when I built it. Well here we are a few years later, and M$ has release so many service packs and updates that the [...]

Hbase 0.20: Low Memory Performance Tuning

Hey Everybody!

As promised, though a little later than I’d originally hoped, here is a quick blurb on what I’ve done to make my fully distributed Hbase instance run with a little bit more stability.

hbase.hregion.max.filesize � Default: 268435456

This setting is the maximum file size [...]

Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala Coming Soon!

I am pleased to report that the 9.10 release of Ubuntu is available for Beta testing. I have had the Alpha running on a test machine for several weeks now with daily updates applied. My First impressions of the release are pleasing, but I haven’t done too much with it yet. The first thing [...]

Adding Hbase 0.20 to Our Hadoop Cluster

OK, OK, I know what you’re thinking. “Where has this guy been with some more of this hadoop goodness that we just can’t get enough of?” Well, I am (finally) back, and you’ll be happy to learn what I brought with me: A whole mess more Hadoop and Hbase knowledge that I can’t wait to [...]