Archive for February, 2006

Looking forward to meeting Mr Niger

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

http://grep.be/gpg/fosdem/ksp-fosdem-2006.txt:

069 [ ] Fingerprint OK [ ] ID OK
pub 1024D/814D4725 2005-07-17
Key fingerprint = D4B0 D7DA 34AE B785 9AFF 1107 70A2 C831 814D 4725
uid Gary Niger <niger@gnaa.us>

Linux Gazette — Configuring Apache for Maximum Performance

Thursday, February 16th, 2006

Linux Gazette has an interesting article on Configuring Apache for Maximum Performance. It’s a good read and I can’t find fault with anything said, although it would have been nice if it touched on some of the alternative lightweight web servers out there, especially for the static content, e.g. Lighttpd (now in Sarge backports!). […]

Dear Lazyweb, Is Gigabyte I-RAM supported by Linux?

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

The Gigabyte I-RAM is one of the first cheap solid state storage devices I have seen.  While 4GB may not seem a lot, this could prove amazingly useful for ext3 external journals and the like.
Check out the performance results, this storage totally blows away multi-disk RAID-0 arrays, as it should being basically battery-backed RAM.

Podcasts I listen to

Sunday, February 12th, 2006

The Ricky Gervais Show
All the cool kids have been listening to this one. If you like Gervais or his sidekicks Stephen Merchant (co-writer of Extras) and Karl Pilkington (their producer from Xfm) then you’ll certainly like this. It’s outrageously funny, though I still can’t work out exactly how much of Karl Pilkington’s insanity […]

resiak loves how punctuation can be a word

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

resiak, don’t get me started!

Iran and nuclear weapons

Monday, February 6th, 2006

port7, I appreciate what you’re saying regarding countries like UK and USA making commitments to reduce their own nuclear arsenal before requiring countries like Iran to do so, but surely you must see that as a liberal daydream and not something that could likely happen in the real world?
The fact is that having nuclear weapons […]

Subscribe-to-comments plugin

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

I’m trying out Mark Jaquith’s subscribe-to-comments WordPress plugin, which allows users to get email updates whenever there is a new comment to a post they also commented on. My limited testing shows it basically works, but if you should have occasion to comment then I would appreciate you test driving it too.

Optimus Keyboard: What a joke

Saturday, February 4th, 2006

Previously I blogged about the Optimus Keyboard, and how it would supposedly be available February 1st and cost “about as much as a good mobile phone.”
Well the site now tells us that the first product will be available May 2006, the Optimus Mini. The Optimus Mini has 3 keys. It will cost $100. […]

Linux performance tuning tips

Friday, February 3rd, 2006

I originally wrote this article as a lengthy email to HantsLUG, but then decided it was worth putting on the wiki.

Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing

Wednesday, February 1st, 2006

Boost your Vim editing productivity: Vim: Seven habits of effective text editing