Zend

Well, I happen to be back at my favorite application. Today I stumbled upon a " nice" thing. If you turn on the Zend Optimizer (doesn’t matter whether it is 2.6.2 or 3.3.0), one of the TYPO3 back ends ain’t showing any content in the preview pane. Once you turn the Zend Optimizer stuff off, it works without a problem. O RLY ? And as Zend stated on their " Support Forum", they don’t really support the Zend Optimizer stuff in the first place. Which is nice, what for do you need the Zend Guard shit in the first place ?? ...

What would you figure from the above ? Hopefully the rather obvious, that it’s a really shitty combination. So we figured it would be a nice thing to test our new setup before going into pre-production testing or production, but we don’t have an extra spare box. So we took one of the power4 boxes we have mounted in the rack basically consuming energy all day (that’s about 38kWh a day) and installed SLES10 onto it. Which wasn’t all that bad (at first the box repeatedly started back to AIX, from CD and after convincing the SMS - that’s basically the bios on the power*-boxes also known as System Management Services with a hammer to boot from the first hard disk). ...