Dear Microsoft,
RE: OOXML
Due to massive irregularities in the voting process in ISO, the requirement to use patented media formats such as MP3 and the sheer inappropriateness of using the fast-track process for your massive XML document format OOXML I will not accept it as an agreed ISO standard, even though you managed to con enough people into voting for it.
Chris
Get it while it’s hot folks, the brand new shiny WordPress 2.5 is now up for people to grab!
Just upgraded here from RC2 to the release version – please let me know if you find anything that has broken.
OK, now running 2.5 RC2. You know the usual drill – please comment, blog with a trackback or email about problems!
You’d have thought Apple would know how to do email right, but sadly it appears not. A message I sent to the Beowulf list today generated a bounce from a mac.com email address back to me rather than to the envelope sender – very naughty as RFC-2821 says:
If an SMTP server has accepted the task of relaying the mail and later finds that the destination is incorrect or that the mail cannot be delivered for some other reason, then it MUST construct an “undeliverable mail” notification message and send it to the originator of the undeliverable mail (as indicated by the reverse-path).
I wonder if they read their Postmaster email ?
What’s all this wet stuff falling out of the sky ?
The Bureau of Meteorology warns that, at 9:55 pm, severe thunderstorms were detected on weather radar near Craigieburn, St Albans and Werribee. These thunderstorms are moving towards the east. They are forecast to affect Caulfield, Dandenong, Footscray, Frankston, Glen Waverley, Greensborough, Melbourne City, Preston, Ringwood and Rosebud by 10:40 pm and Healesville, Pakenham and Phillip Island by 11:25 pm.
Hmm, I think this is what they mean..
After the previous benchmark of btrfs I thought it’d be interesting to revisit ZFS using FUSE under Linux, so after updating to the current tip (02d648b1676c) in the Mercurial trunk I created a 30GB LVM volume for testing and gave it a go. Now you can’t compare it to previous results as this is completely different hardware, but the numbers look quite respectable in comparison to the in-kernel file systems tested yesterday.
Back in February Chris Mason announced btrfs 0.13, so I thought I’d give it a quick go as I’d not touched it since testing btrfs 0.5 back in August. Back then, on some pretty meaty hardware, there was a considerable difference between XFS and btrfs and I was curious as to how they’d compare now.
The test hardware this time is a quad core Intel box with 8GB RAM and a pair of 750GB SATA drives in a RAID-1 mirror. It is running Kubuntu Hardy Heron (now in beta) with a 2.6.25-rc6 kernel.
A quick blast with Bonnie++ surprised me, btrfs matched XFS for read, writes and rewrites (though with higher CPU usage, presumably due to the fact that it’s checksuming all the data) and then blew XFS away for meta-data operations.
| Operation | XFS | btrfs |
|---|---|---|
| Block write (KB/s) | 50572 | 42087 |
| Block rewrite (KB/s) | 23739 | 23296 |
| Block read (KB/s) | 52512 | 53108 |
| Sequential creates (/s) | 4095 | 23569 |
| Sequential deletes (/s) | 3404 | 15901 |
| Random creates (/s) | 1819 | 27919 |
| Random deletes (/s) | 1397 | 21561 |
Here are the full results:
Well I’ve just completed an amazingly painless upgrade to the first release candidate ofWordPress 2.5, the only thing that caught me out was an old functions.php file left over from a previous release that caused a PHP5 error about redefining a function!
There’s bound to be some hidden breakage that I’ve not yet spotted, so leave a comment (if you can) or drop me an email as chris (at-the-domain) csamuel.org with the details please.
Update: After a few days of playing around with it I’ve got to say I like it the new admin interface. I’m finding it much easier to navigate and compared to the other WP 2.3 sites I admin the dashboard seems a lot less cluttered and that ever-so-subjective word, “clean”.
The only niggle I’ve got so far is that now in the widgets view you can only see the one column of widgets at a time, so if you’re using a 3 column theme (as the current one here is) you can no longer move a widget directly from one column to another. But I can live with that.
You’re getting old, my little brother.. 🙂
