Yes, you heard right. Yesterday, Microsoft unveiled the minimum requirements for its upcoming operating system. To summarize: you need an 800 MHz CPU, with 512 MB of RAM, at least 15 GB of hard drive space and a video card that supports DirectX 9. That means my state-of-the-art Pentium III 1 GHz Linux box is [...]
Archive for 2006
The days of the turbo slug were numbered. I often asked myself how long I would be able to endure running (and using) a slow server to serve up my web site. I’m a patient guy; sometimes too patient. “Six months?” “How about one year?” OK, maybe closer to six months. Well, that day has [...]
Not just yet After a five year hiatus, one of my contacts at UCFV informed me that there may be another opportunity for me to teach at UCFV in the coming months. UCFV is keeping their lips sealed on the upcoming course’s content, but hopefully it’s something that interests me. When I last taught at [...]
For those of you that followed my previous posts last year (before I became a power consumption reduction freak and trashed my old server ), you know that I added seven grounding wires to my car through trial-and-error (and the use of a multimeter) to yield some noticeable improvements. A month ago, I decided to [...]
That title caught your attention, didn’t it? (Well, it should have ). I’m going to start writing little snippets such as this one to share some knowledge with the public, specifically on hardware price cuts. If you’re like me, you hate purchasing computer hardware only to see the price drop significantly within a couple of [...]
This post is meant to save others time in finding a solution for the above. Since the solution isn’t documented anywhere on the Internet, it was a matter of trial and error before QualysGuard passed a server scan (for a friend) with no level 3 vulnerabilities (port 25 over SSL). First of all, some background information. [...]
I took my second turbo slug offline last night after migrating the MySQL database to the main turbo slug. After much trial and error, I managed to figure out a way to run Apache 2.0.54 + PHP 5.0.4 + eAccelerator 0.9.2 + MySQL 4.1 on one of my turbo slugs efficiently. Running on a 32 [...]