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So what exactly are you looking forward to in Leopard?

13 Jun 2007

So there’s this big Leopard thing that’s the talk of Mac town (well, that and Safari) with all the new features being revealed (officially, at least, to the general public) at WWDC 2007. Some of the features are pretty cool, most of them are mundane. For me, I am really looking forward to: the new [...]

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Nginx, PHP and a PHP FastCGI daemon init script

In: Open Source|Operating Systems|Ruby on Rails

11 Jun 2007

One of the things us ex-Apache httpd or ex-Lighttpd users have to get used to when installing nginx is how there isn’t built-in FastCGI support for process spawning. While these means nginx is more lightweight and faster, it does mean that you have to manage your FastCGI processes yourself. Having just upgraded to Ubuntu Feisty [...]

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Toilets and Linux evangelism

In: Mac|Open Source|Operating Systems

5 Jun 2007

Pardon the self-promoting cross-linking: Toilets and Linux evangelism (or what we use to build Bezurk) is an entry I just posted on the brand new Bezurk Blog about how the toilet is a good place to spread the word. If you’ve found other neat ways to use the free Ubuntu stickers (or even the Apple [...]

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Axel – lightweight command line download accelerator

In: Open Source|Operating Systems

29 Apr 2007

I never really fancied download accelerators but Axel is different – it’s a command line application and is naturally significantly more lightweight then those graphical download managers I’ve stopped using since 1996 (teh intraweb was slower then, and I was sucking bits of it through a state of the art 33.6kbps dial-up modem). I’ve been [...]

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Setting up svnsync-ed (mirrored) SVN repositories on Ubuntu (part 2 of 2)

In: Open Source|Operating Systems|Web development

31 Mar 2007

Note: if you haven’t already, you may want to read part 1 of this article first. Phew, and that was all the work you needed to do to migrate your Subversion repository to another server. We’ve barely touched that other server that we wanted to use for mirroring the repository! “Bootstrapping” your mirror SVN server [...]

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