Monthly Archives: August 2002

Installing Anti-Spam Filters for Relays and Local Delivery – 66.236.91.140 is trying to attack our mail server using a Rumplestilskin mail attack but it’s easy enough to stop them.

There is a memory leak in PHP. Nick Lindridge, the author of PHP Accelerator discovered that php compiled with “–enable-memory-limit” leaks a small amount of memory on every request to the server. His email hasn’t made it to the PHPA mail archives yet but check there later if you’re affected by this.

There’s a new release of Smarty Template Engine available. The {debug} feature looks very handy!

When building vim from source, use this to configure it:
./configure --enable-gui=no
That’ll stop it trying to connect to your local X server.

Update on the status of php accelerator. I had to increase the PHP memory limit to 32MB and decrease the max requests per child in Apache to 500 as we got the “Out of Memory” errors again. I’m keeping an eye on “top”, sorted by memory usage and Apache memory usage is slowly going up.

Nanoweb – a webserver written in PHP!

I took a half day yesterday and missed lots of stuff!
Steven and Eric battle it out over open source software. I tend to agree with Steven. Open Source isn’t the panacea people thought it was. It’s only one in a number of ways of producing software.

There’s a new release of The PHP Accelerator including a tuned library to make things even faster! We ran into the out of memory errors these people had but I’m going to try the hints given.

A Driving Wireless Network – going on a long drive with a few other cars? Network them together!

The Coming October War in Iraq – Cam is right, this is an eye opening article. Read it.
A Google search for “Scott RItter” brings us to articles at Salon.com, pbs.org, CNN, and other news outlets.