Archive For July 24th, 2002
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!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
Linus compares vi patches to a new sport – I’ve bungy jumped but I wouldn’t do it the way he suggests!
