Archive for October, 2008

A PC Can only do one thing at a time …

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Whilst the above is probably true, it no longer holds, most processors nowadays are at least dual-core, in other words, we can now do TWO things at a time!

Now, the above is the newest argument I’ve seen against VoIP systems such as asterisk! Can you imagine it?

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Webserver (apache) security

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Generally my experience with apache has been very good. It’s a decent web server and works very well, is well supported and generally doesn’t suffer too many problems. For an ISP though, there are a few issues: php and other sub-processes/modues runs with the privileges of the apache user. So what is so bad about that?

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Returning to LiLO

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

So after spending hours trying to find the appropriate driver that would work with the CD/DVD device in my Lenovo Y710A I bumped into a post on the lenovo forums that said that acpi=off fixes the problem, or to replace grub with lilo.

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Bash variables

Friday, October 17th, 2008

These things pops up from time to time, manipulating variables and strings using bash. There are a few very handy variable operators that can reliably detect whether strings are set or not, strip of tails or heads, and even do some basic replacements.

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