Monthly Archive for April, 2010

Comcast Town

Love the graphics in this website. You can navigate through the amazingly detailed town and even build your own room. The UI design is intuitive and the transitions between the many context menus are smooth and polished.

Apache Error #28 – No space left on device

The Apache server on my EC2 instance stopped suddenly and refuses to restart. Repeating in the error log is this misleading error:

(28)No space left on device: mod_rewrite: could not create rewrite_log_lock
Configuration Failed

A quick check with df -h and repquota -v indicates that there are plenty of disk left and no user is over his quota. The culprit turns out to be left over semaphore arrays. To check whether they exist on your system, use

ipcs -s | grep apache

In my case this returns a shocking 128 left overs. To clear them, run

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The Spread of Walmart

http://projects.flowingdata.com/walmart/

Tim Brown on creativity and play

Photoshop CS4 Extra Plugins – Where to find them

I was looking for the handy ContactSheet maker in photoshop when I realize it was taken out of the standard installation and provided as a separate download. Get it at : http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4048

Also included are several useful plugins:

Bigger Tiles
Picture Package (ContactSheetII)
ExtractPlus
PatternMaker
PhotomergeUI
Web Photo Gallery (WebContactSheetII) plus presets
script for Layer Comps to Web Photo Gallery
Texture presets for Texturizer