Cat fighting

 Triviality  1 Response »
Nov 242009
 

Alright, this should be named as fighting cat.

I believe it’s a cat, a wild cat. I said “I believe” because I never saw it – it comes in night only.

I’m not a cat-hater, but it left feces on my tree EVERY NIGHT, this becomes annoying whenever I clean up my backyard during the weekend, as it becomes a lot.

I’m loser in this case so far – I tried put something smelled really bad over there, obviously it doesn’t care, then I tried to put water that since cat scares, obvious it’s a brave cat. My most recent try is buying 4 rat traps, putting them there on the tree – I don’t meant to catch the cat, but just want to scare it so never come again.

I was happy yesterday morning while I found nothing there other than my rat traps, but bad news for this morning – one rat trap got triggered (but something you know, shi*t), and seems the cat didn’t get hurt at all, actually I was almost hurt by those rat traps whenever I was pulling them down and re-set.

OK, now I lost my idea, I’m going to search online for some serious solution. Things in my mind include: poisoned bait (again I don’t want to kill the cat), electric fence, and what else? Also I will try to set motion detected camera to see if I can catch the scene or not, maybe it’s not a cat at all …

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I’m not that fast any more

 Triviality  No Responses »
Nov 242009
 

“not fast” is better than “slow”, so I think I’m making progress, better than before.

Updates:

  • I moved to proxmox which gives me better VM performance so that I can have more VMs for my test, it did take me some time to dig out a usable solution. Now I’m running 4 VMs so I can test fail-over and bootstrap etc.
  • I moved to Python since PHP is not that popular now especially in all these new technology, I’m a code-by-sample guy, so while the whole world is writing codes in Java, Ruby, and Python, I don’t have many choices. I picked Python because I don’t want to run things like Tomcat, and built-in web servers does not convince me (I’m talking about Ruby).
  • I’ve done some simple tests but dealing with columns, etc., the test environment gives me reasonable performance number – 8ms per read/write.
  • I’m still learning Python and its web stuffs, seems not that hard to catch up though. I’m using web.py which seems to be the lightest framework, I may be wrong but I don’t want to dig in more at this moment.

To-do list:

  • I need to figure out if Ubuntu is still the way to go for my virtualization environment, I’m worrying proxmox is not a major player in this area so it may ruin my long term plan.
  • I need to find out if there is any other better HTTP server, “better” here means: light, support wsgi.
  • I’m going to compose some test scripts dealing with super column, which is what I need to use for the statistic project.
  • Revisit original design, both schema and work flow may have some changes.

I would like to say, everything is on the track, though I’m not that fast. I will post updates after this thanks giving as I doubt if I will have time coding during the holiday.