Archive For May 19th, 2003
This is a good introduction which assumes you haven’t a notion what design patterns are. It also helpfully states, … like everything else we use in software development / engineering. OO and Design Patterns have its place… [They're] Not the Only Tool.. (via phppatterns)
John conducted benchmarks the other day and found that IIS/WinXP can be faster than Apache /Linux. His initial results show a huge difference, but later he found the difference was only 10%. What difference would running a PHP accelerator make to the test? That may very well swing the results back in favour. In my [...]
Nick’s adventures page is another great resource for those trying to get Linux to work with their Symbian phone. This is a great followup to my previous post on bluetooth. I might be able to to actually “send” files to the 7650 now using “OpenObex”.
I’ve used Mozilla Firebird all day today. The fonts do suck, but there’s an xft build out there that I’ll try tonight on Red Hat 9. The xft build doesn’t work on Red Hat 7.2 however. The browser is quick and light. It’s even lighter and more responsive than Galeon although that could be explained [...]
Worried about the security of your Unix box? Chkrootkit will check your machine for many common rootkits. Even if you’re confident your machine hasn’t ever been compromised this might be a good app to keep in mind just in case.. Not worried are you? Take a look at the readme for one such rootkit. It’s [...]
