Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex/8.10 Is Ruining My Hardware

November 9, 2008 – 18:44

I’m a long time user, advocate and all-round fan of Linux. In particular, I’ve used Debian or variant distributions and have never had any major issues (well none that weren’t PEBKAC). I’ve been running Debian Sid on my Thinkpad X31 for around three years now, and out of curiosity I thought I’d try out Ubuntu [...]

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Server Benchmarking Diary – Debian, Apache 2 and MySQL

September 5, 2008 – 20:32

This blog took nearly 7 thousand hits yesterday. At its peak, it took 1.8 thousand an hour. That’s a decent amount of traffic. This was all brought about when I submitted a link to reddit.com regarding a way to crash Google Chrome instantly. Coincidentally, I had spent an hour or so the night before testing [...]

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Debian & Ubuntu – SSH Via an HTTP Proxy

June 10, 2008 – 08:21

So you’re sitting at work, and your much-loved VPS with hosting company X has gone down. You need to bring it back up, but you’re an hour away from getting to a PC.
Fear not, fellow hacker – SSH over an HTTP proxy is here! Well actually, it’s been here a while. Ahem.
Before you do this, [...]

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HOWTO: Apache 2, Tomcat 5.5.25 and mod_jk and Debian

November 20, 2007 – 10:58

Update: It’s been said that this howto will also work for Tomcat 6. I’ve not tested it, but I’d assume it would work considering the manual aspects of the installation and the unlikely event that Tomcat 6 would’ve changed its directory structure considerably. If you find evidence to the contrary, please let me know.
Introduction
This HowTo [...]

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