Apache::VMonitor:

“The Apache::VMonitor module provides even better monitoring functionality than top(1). It gives all the relevant information top(1) does, plus all the Apache specific information provided by Apache’s mod_status module, such as request processing time, last request’s URI, number of requests served by each child, etc. In addition, it emulates the reporting functions of the top(1), mount(1), df(1) utilities. There is a special mode for mod_perl processes. It has visual alerting capabilities and a configurable automatic refresh mode. It provides a Web interface, which can be used to show or hide all sections dynamically.”

i have no idea what to make of the fact that two of my alma maters, hope college and the evergreen state college have made it into the “top 50” results of a very unscientific survey of colleges worth considering. both schools have their merits, but in the official snowdeal lore, i abandoned hope for the siren song of oly, the evergreen state college and temperate rainforests.

curiously, dano.blogger.com has shown up in my referer logs, with an enticing blogger v5 moniker, a link to an [ old? ] wireless interface and a prominent recently updated page.

tim o’reilly makes an interesting observation regarding the marketplace speaking clearly about which interface more developers prefer, at least with regards to amazon:

“Amazon has both SOAP and REST interfaces to their web services, and 85% of their usage is of the REST interface. Despite all of the corporate hype over the SOAP stack, this is pretty compelling evidence that developers like the simpler REST approach.”

i’ve been mostly ignoring the blogshares phenomenon because it seemed just too wierd. but it has come to my attention that i’ve been automatically added to the database, so if you’re interested you can help boost me out of pennystock oblivion.

oh ye of little faith – just because it’s coming a day late, don’t go thinking i didn’t run 18 miles today. sweet holy ol’ hanna 18 miles is long distance.

intrigued by the new york times article on the martian netdrive, i contacted the developers to see if you could run the slimp3 server, which could make a snazzy, networked wireless music appliance. they promptly replied that they’ve been in talks with the slimp3 people and will be including the server soon, which could make this an interesting option for a few projects i have in the queue.

it’s a bit pricey at nearly $500 for the 120 gig model, and you could conceivably make something similar for less with a little ingenuity and a via eden/mini-ITX board running linux, but its priced smartly enough to make it enticing to pick up one for testing. hmmm