I've been doing the same thing, and we've been using gdash for awhile now, and we love it. Easy to use straight up graphite graphs with it on a nice full screen page.

The Kabuki theatre in japantown does a decent approximation for this. Seeing a movie there is a quite enjoyable experience.

Agreed.

Working with hadoop a few years ago was a pain in the ass, what really made it ready (at least for me) was the packaging done by Cloudera.

There's now an Apache effort for producing a fully packaged, validated and deployable stack of Hadoop components. The project is called Apache Bigtop (incubating) and the relationship with Cloudera's CDH is like a relationship between Debian and Ubuntu. We make it super easy for folks to deploy the released versions of Bigtop distribution either via packages: http://bit.ly/rHpybV or VMs: http://bit.ly/tBGmNt

I've run clusters with and without Cloudera and I'd never go back to without it. It just works which when setting up a new cluster is often something you can't say.

This is a crazy read.

I agree, best line of the post.

Rdio all the way. Best $10 I spend every month.