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POUND – Reverse proxy and load-balancer

July 3, 2010

Scaling up. For most people a nightmare area. What? How? Where? It usually comes down to how much money are you willing to spend and what is it that you actually need. Here is free as in free beer solution for all you geekz out there who need a simple load balancer and reverse proxy… [...]

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Joomla! 1.0.x and PHP 5.3 meltdown

May 23, 2010

Here is the story: if you happen to run Joomla! 1.0, which you should not but what the heck, you’ll run into some weird issues if there is PHP 5.3.x running on your server. Everything will work fine except for one thing – there will be no content at al on your web site. And [...]

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Posted in Joomla!, PHP | 43 Comments »

Syncing Firefox bookmarks and passwords

May 23, 2010

I use a few computers and I like to have pretty much the same $ENV on them. Using various rsync methods helps keeping $HOME synced. Yet, sometimes that $HOME is way too big for syncing via the Internet. And what if I’d like to sync just some programes and not the whole damn $HOME dir?

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Lighttpd and (network.c.529) SSL error

May 23, 2010

I just realized that the latest Lighttpd you may find in FreeBSD ports (and in all Linux distros actually) is a bit buggy. Apparently there is an error in network.c which will crash your HTTPS.

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Posted in BSD, Security, Sysadmin | 1 Comment »