Russell Beattie replies to someone who asked about working in IT in Spain.
The Spanish, in my humble opinion, stick with what they know and don’t rock the boat. Until they do, they’ll continue getting paid like shit.
Author Archives: Donncha
Ireland sets FRIACO prices
The Register reports that “its flat-rate Internet access plans are on track, with wholesale prices set to come in at €12.77 per customer, per month.”
UserFriendly – platforms
Silly descriptions of languages and platforms. hehe.
Last Updated Blogs
I’m working on an “Updated Blogs” page now. Should have it finished soon! Obviously this is a test entry!
Cork LUG – /etc under cvs
David Dorgan tackled a difficult subject for his latest article. I tried putting /etc into cvs ages ago but unfortunately didn’t have enough interest in keeping it going!
TODO list
Things I need to do:
- List last updated blogs on front page.
- Page to list all blogs.
- Option to reset template to factory default.
Bird flu not a major human threat yet–scientists
According to Reuters it’s not serious yet, but I remember reading a book a few weeks ago on this very subject, with disasterous consequences. *shudder*
“If a person contracts both human flu and bird flu during this peak flu season, that may result in the two sharing their genetic information and emerging into a new strain with the ability to jump very efficiently from human to human.
“If that happens, it will be an emergence of a pandemic, something we don’t want to see,” Chan told Reuters.
httpd compression update
Something’s wrong. php zlib compression or mod_gzip don’t work on this hostname. It works fine on www.linux.ie so there’s some interaction between mod_gzip, php output buffering, and mod_rewrite. I’ll get it working eventually.
Compressed httpd data
Enabling zlib compression makes a huge difference to a http server. I stress tested this server using Apache Bench. Before compression was enabled I managed just over 1-2 requests of (large) pages per second, but with compression that rose to 10 requests per second! Just add this to a .htaccess file if you’re using PHP 4.
php_flag zlib.output_compression On
Update – Enabling compression that way here causes too many problems. I’ll have to try and convince Colm to install mod_gzip which works everywhere else I’ve used it.
TWiki – A Web Based Collaboration Platform
A new release of TWiki is available.
As this is the first release since December 2001 there are plenty of changes, bug fixes and new features. Go see it now!