2008's news archive

I am reconfiguring my server today (going from Gentoo to Debian). There's an expected downtime, but it should be less than a minute.

Now might be a good time to plug Linode. They've been my host for more than 2 years now and I never thought I'd ever be that satisfied of a hosting service. The uptime is good and the staff is very responsive. The linode management utility is particularly awesome. It's easy to manage disk images and configurations. If you have 2 linodes, you can easily move stuff around. This was particularly useful today as I tested my new Debian configuration of my test linode, and I'm now migrating it to my live linode. A little reboot (reboots are very fast on linodes) and everything should be fine (famous last words...).

I released dupeGuru PE 1.4.0 today. The Mac OS X version has iPhoto integration. In the Directories window, you can now add a special item, the "iPhoto Library". When you do, iPhoto is launched and all your photos are scanned. The actions on duplicates all work the same as for normal pictures, except for Send to Trash and Move. Send to Trash will send the photo to the iPhoto trash, not the system trash. Move will copy your photo to the destination, then send it to the iPhoto trash.

I spent the last few days profiling (running an application through a special library that records the time spent by each part of the code. It greatly helps to locate bottlenecks) dupeGuru, something I haven't been doing in quite a while. The result is a greatly improved overall speed in situations where there are a lot of duplicates. Today's dupeGuru 2.5.2 release have these improvements, and upcoming releases of ME and PE also will.

I'm also working on iPhoto integration in dupeGuru PE, a feature that is painfully absent at the present.