Archive For July 24th, 2002

The new Mozilla 1.1beta doesn' …

The new Mozilla 1.1beta doesn’t play very well with Galeon 1.25 so don’t try and mix them or “bad things will happen”! muhahahaha!

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Be careful when tuning your Li …

Be careful when tuning your Linux servers. Sometimes strange things happen. I followed some of the directions listed here and our server rejected half the connections to Apache. I rectified that by making the values smaller, like this: echo 32768 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-maxecho 19000 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max Stats are up on previous days, so when tuning file [...]

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Ok, so the UK Government recog …

Ok, so the UK Government recognises open source software. That’s great for them. Meanwhile, those of us stuck in the e-commerce non-hub of Europe that is Ireland have to condent with a Government that’s in the pockets of Microsoft. Maybe this’ll have an impact on things here as we usually tow the line when the [...]

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Mandrake's operating losses ar …

Mandrake’s operating losses are down! Good news for the makers of the best Linux desktop distribution! More info to be found in the MandrakeSoft Shareholder Newsletter.

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Salon introduced Userland webl …

Salon introduced Userland weblogs today. Here’s Dave’s side of the story. I’m going to keep an eye on this. I’d like to see what success a mainstream company has introducing weblog technology to the masses. What would happen if every website offered weblogs? Would a community grow up around that site? In other news, Niall [...]

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Linus compares vi patches to a …

Linus compares vi patches to a new sport – I’ve bungy jumped but I wouldn’t do it the way he suggests!

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The current, and out of date r …

The current, and out of date release of PHP-Accelerator almost works with the new version of PHP. It works most of the time but just as I was talking to my boss a demo page bombed out because it had exhaused all 8MB of memory! *grrr* Where’s the source so I can recompile it?

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