If you’re contemplating switching to running PHP5 under FastCGI, to take advantage of apache’s threaded worker model and improve your server’s performance, think again. If you’re used to setting and overriding php values via .htaccess files or using php_value/php_flag in your virtual host directory, this is not supported with FastCGI. You’ll have to figure out […]
I was noticing today many apache segfaults on this server, and pretty high traffic loads at times. I haven’t pinpointed the exact cause of high traffic, there are a couple candidates, but the apache segfaults seem to accompanied by the following PHP errors: [13-Aug-2008 13:55:27] PHP Notice: MemcachePool::get() [memcachepool.get]: Server 127.0.0.1 (tcp 11211, udp 0)
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Yesterday, Bolivians voted wether to keep Evo and the provincial governors in power. I haven’t read up on all the issues surrounding Bolivia at the moment, but the following articles provide some insight. The election confirms his mandate and shows that, at the least, his party gets (forces?) his supporters to show up at polling
I find the time to write about the econmics behind my thrilling ISP/TV swtich and Patty writes a touching post about what it was like to meet Nicholas. Can you guess which one of us was described as emotional as a robot in college? Shouldn’t be too hard a task. Patty, your post deserves a
My city peeps might soon have the option of getting Internet + TV through Verizon’s fiber optic service. I recently wrote about my switch to FiOS. Here’s a mini followup. Things I like – the cost I Received our first full month’s bill for Fios service, total was $115 dollars for phone, internet, and TV
I was a big fan of Satellite TV going back to grad school. Back then, you could get a decent channel package for around $30/month, easily beating the price of cable. Even factoring in buying the Dish and Receiver, the savings at the time paid for themselves in under two years (at least in Blacksburg
Dear Mail Server Admins, I hardly ever check the spam folder you gave me, what makes you think I’m going to read a daily quarantine message for false positives? E-mail is broken, but I don’t know of any way to really fix it. Thank You.
I’ve got another 5 day weekend coming up ahead. Since Patty is visiting, I’ve taken the next 3 days off so that Staci, Patty, Nicholas, Ian, and I have time to hang out. It’s been a blast to have her here again, and it’s made me more aware of how weird it is to NOT
Cuil is a new search engine on the block, trying to displace Google from the top of the search heap. They say their index is larger than Google’s, as if size is THAT important, and was launched by former Google employees. Rather than trying to mimic Google’s method of ranking the quantity and quality of
I didn’t miss the boat on Dr. Horrible, I just haven’t gotten around to blogging about it. If you missed it when it was free, you can get all 3 episodes on iTunes for just 4 dollars. You can’t beat that deal for your entertainment dollar. I highly recommend it, if you like any combination