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Worth noting:
XHProf is a hierarchical profiler for PHP. It reports function-level call counts and inclusive and exclusive metrics such as wall (elapsed) time, CPU time and memory usage. A function’s profile can be broken down by callers or callees. The raw data collection component is implemented in C as a PHP Zend extension called [...]

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The two boys and I produced a short film today with Eli’s new camera.  He’s been carrying his camera on his belt and taking pictures and videos all day (some nice one’s too!).
It’s kind of like the games that kids play about guns and battle and so on and so forth…  Enjoy.
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As I was discussing lightly before, I have recently been involved in building quite a few RPMs for our server clusters at AppCove.

Where we have arrived:
Our (new) primary production cluster consists of multiple RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 boxes in different capacities (webserver, appserver, database master, database slave, etc…).
Each machine is registered with 3 yum repositories:

RHEL [...]

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I’ve been involved in an ongoing project to build RPMs for all of the “custom” software installs we use on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) at AppCove.
By default (on RHEL), source RPMs are installed to /usr/src/redhat. This is nice, except that I don’t want to be running as root when building software.
rpm -i –relocate [...]

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