It’s my fault not checking the status after upgrading the system, but obviously mysql upgrade on Ubuntu hit some problems and stopped in the middle leave the mysql totally inaccessible, which means, my site was down for two days.
Well, I was really busy on job related stuffs, dealing contextual algorithms while playing with network, but this is not the real cause – I do need a monitoring tool to make sure my site is up and running, though it is not that critical.
OK, if you don’t know what I’m saying, don’t bother to ask.
I’m using MMSEG as segmentation algorithms to extract Chinese terms from web pages, and then do some follow-up analysis. MMSEG is pretty good, easy to understand, fast, data driven, fast, small, … alright, lots of advantages. However, it does not handle Chinese-English-mixed word properly, as it just take out English (Latin) words and return it as token, thus you can never extract words like U็ or Tๆค (sorry for Chinese here, the first words is USB disk, and the second is T-Shirt).
I got suggestion from a colleague that treat Latin words as Chinese character, I found this solution was really simple, neat, and easy to implement. Within ~30 minutes I finished code change and unit test, it works just fine :). In the coming days I need to solve words like “C++” as it was not covered by current implementation.
People are saying Yahoo is not handling C++/C# properly, while Bing is not dealing with U็ right. Actually this sound weird to me as supposedly they both use the same web search system …
Zune, or Windows Phone make me mad.
There is no simple way to drag and drop the photos in the phone to a PC, and the phone cannot act like an USB drive, I mean there may be some way to make it but definitely not easy and direct. I searched online and found Library/Pictures/<Device Name> is the place …
I also tried to enable Internet Sharing so that I can upload those photos to Windows Live site and then access from there, but I failed because Internet sharing cannot be enabled without mobile data connection enabled. What H***? I have wifi access, why bother to ask me turn on expensive mobile data network?
Actually I know it may not be all Windows Phone’s problem. I’m not in good mode in the past several days as frastrated by all sort of technical support kind of tasks, wish things can be better in the coming days.
I was running crawler-like application on my EC2 nodes, which grab a set of web pages, save them locally, then do some follow-ups, obviously I hit the bottleneck of the EC2 nodes.
It seems EC2’s storage, at least EBS performs quite bad, I don’t have comparison in number, but for the follow-ups jobs, which are nothing to do with network, EC2 is hundreds or thousands times slower than a regular modern machine.
I guess traditional applications on EC2 don’t rely on EBS too much – most data write to S3/RDS/SDB, etc. However, I do have to pay more attention on this as there is a friend gets to run some critical jobs and I recommended EC2 … I will do some more tests and post result here if I find anything signaficant.
Freaky!
Here what I have done in the past several days:
Actually it was fun other than sometime I misput $ in front of a variable in a C++ program, or use ; to end the statement in python, and got confused with C++ containers and Java containers …
For getting better network connection quality, I’m going to flash a Cisco Linksys E1000 to DD-WRT and then use it as a repeater, will get this done tomorrow after somebody from Comcast cabling my house.