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@lfnw #bike #gps sunday noon
Interested in doing a short ride with GPS and uploading to OpenStreetMap.org? Mapping Party, OSM Talk. Forum discussion.
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LinuxFest Northwest 2011: Traffic Control in Apache
Here are my slides for traffic control in Apache. I decided that last years presentation about Apache rewrites actually sat in a much bigger context of information architecture, performance and caching. So I’ve generalized the discussion and reduced the number of mouse-print code examples. Slides:2011-apache
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LinuxFest Northwest 2011: MySQL Overview
These are the slides I’ll be presenting with for my MySQL Overview talk. Last year I called it the “MySQL Buffet”…and I prolly have more slides up here than time window. Slides:2011-mysql-buffet You’ll find a surprise slide, “boring” in there. And this is pretty much my take on the Oracle acquisition of Sun thus of MySQL AB.…
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LinuxFest Northwest 2011…comin’ round the mountain!
I’m looking forward to LinuxFest Northwest 2011 this year! I’ll be presenting on the MySQL database and how to control web traffic in Apache. I’ll even be presenting in the Linux Action Room and will get to show my evil grin to Chris and Bryan :-) I’ll be posting my slides ahead of time, I…
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netbook adventure begins
I just invested in a used Acer Aspire One D250 (not the crashy one) and have just installed Lubuntu using unetbootin. The biggest surprise is how little effort and how few surprises there were.
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on the usability of passphrases
Ok, finally had a moment to fully read the articlepassword usability and digest. My first thot is, there are some places this logic should not apply, like in situations where offline brute forcing is possible (like theft of password hashes), and not applicable to wifi routers, and cases where sites take only small (8-char) passwords.…
