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Have you any experience with MariaDB? 25 Jun 2013 | 02:35 pm
Recently there have been many alternatives presented to MySQL, with MariaDB looking like a great alternative due to its drop-in nature, and increased performance.
Look before you leap into Disk Encryption 28 May 2013 | 09:42 pm
Thinking Disk Encryption give you more peace of mind? Then think again. It's well known that "fail to plan" means "plan to fail". But when comes to Disk Encryption I did not see any reasonable plannin...
Debian 7.0, "Wheezy" released 5 May 2013 | 02:11 pm
After many months of constant development, the Debian project is proud to present its new stable version 7.0 (code named "Wheezy").
A brief introduction to the beanstalkd queue 24 Apr 2013 | 04:42 pm
There are many times when having access to a queue is useful when you're developing projects and code. These days there are several available queueing daemons available, and here we're going to look a...
Writing a simple indexer and searcher with Lucy::Simple 22 Apr 2013 | 02:34 pm
This site was previously hosted upon a single machine, and was recently moved to a cluster instead. This broke the search interface which had to be reworked and this article describes how the new site...
The next release of Debian GNU/Linux is due soon .. 19 Apr 2013 | 02:39 pm
According to the most recent update from the project we should be seeing the next stable release of Debian GNU/Linux in early May.
So, your cronjob did not run? 21 Feb 2013 | 02:26 pm
Recently I was hit be a problem which was ultimately caused by a failure to run a cron-job. Here I'm going to document the three most common means for failure that I know about, in the hopes of avoidi...
Install PHP5 Taint in Debian Squeeze 4 Feb 2013 | 08:55 pm
This article describes the setting up of PECL Taint module for PHP5 in Debian Squeeze.
Restricting SSH logins to particular IP addresses 29 Jan 2013 | 04:37 am
Many people use SSH keys for password-less logins, and the increase in security that keys provide over (traditionally weaker) passwords. But few people seem to realize that you can also restrict login...
Sending email on submission of some syslog-ng events 25 Jan 2013 | 03:14 pm
Several years ago, I implemented a centralized syslog-ng server for our Linux servers, switches, routers and firewalls. It worked very well, but I ran into situations where I would not be in front of ...
