Posts Tagged: Technology

Swelling OQO2 battery pops itself out of the unit – the horror!

We covered many horror stories on SlashGear about battery exploding, swelling, and the aftermath of its explosion – but never do I experienced it myself until I received an OQO2. The battery was attached to the unit but I notice there is a small gap between the unit and the battery itself. Ignoring that thinking it might not be a big deal, I plugged the unit to charge up and within two minutes I heard a loud pop. The battery unattached itself from the OQO2 and cracks open.

Immediately I unplugged the charger and made sure nothing has leaked out. Luckily it was just swelling, but the crackling sounds made me nervous. I properly wrapped the battery and took it to battery recycling center in Dallas. [Note : Always properly disposed an unused battery!] I guess its time for me to buy a new battery for it. I carry the OQO2 everywhere I go for emergency in case I need to reboot our servers and etc.

Footnote : This Post in no way blaming OQO for this battery problem

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It’s Over! I Got my iPhone! Unboxing at SlashGear and First Look at MY iTablet

After all the buzz and waiting, I finally have an iPhone on my possession. I did an unboxing video on slashgear and now playing around with it. So far I have to say, I’m impressed. The accuracy of iPhone’s virtual keyboard are very good and beyond my expectation. Review will be up soon on SlashGear and MY iTablet.

Ewdi Unbox iPhone and First Look

Vince aside from being the usual media-whore and mogger, he has gotten his iPhone an hour earlier than mine. He was camping out at the 5th ave Apple store in NY. Check out his first look on iPhone.

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Camping out for an iPhone

iPhone Camp out

Vincent will be camping out at 5th Ave Apple store in Manhattan starting the 27th for an iPhone. We have also prep bunch of giveaways during his camp out. I personally will be going down to one of the AT&T store in Dallas and try to join the mayhem of getting a new toy. Some people has started to camp out on the 25th in front of 5th Ave Apple sore, that is insane! If you are thinking of returning your iPhone after purchasing it, you might want to read this entry on SlashGear.

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Scale up or go down – in search of better servers setup

MySQL LogoFor the past couple days, I’ve been trying to figure out how I can keep our flagship sites up during sudden spikes of incoming traffic. We have moved to LiteSpeed Web Server two months ago and it does help; however the bottleneck is back to MySQL. So recently I enabled slow-queries log on MySQL server to get started on query optimization. I found some wordpress plugins (recent comment, featured entry) are in fact causes slow queries.

So we have slow queries problem fixed, and during the month of May, we received another big wave of traffic, close to 300k unique for the day. The server is still able to handle the traffic but it was crawling, and server load reached as high as 9.1 according to top. MySQL took as much as 75 percent of the server resources and then we knew we need to get another machine dedicated to MySQL alone.

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