Category Archives: General

Ananova – Russian beauty says ‘hello boys’

Via Dangerous Meta, Readers react to ‘Take a Mac user to lunch’ and some of the comments are very entertaining, make sure to read the one that characterises Mac and Linux users so well!

Happy Birthday WebWord!

If you’re new to Unix you should take a look at this article!

Don’t makemap btree when creating your access.db on RH Linux anyway. Use makemap hash instead. That caused me some stress this morning when our mail wasn’t being relayed by the server! *oops*

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.