September 2009
33 posts
Securing an HTTPS server →
Among the things I cleaned up was how I handle HTTPS: I need it because people enter passwords when creating tarsnap accounts and when logging in to the tarsnap account management interface, but I…
The Ten Minute Guide to diff and patch →
[Wine] Civ4 in Wine 1.1.25 on Ubuntu 9.04 -... →
wpntv's erlmongo at master - GitHub →
Erlmongo is a pretty complete Erlang driver for mongodb. It supports records and proplists as datatypes. Strings can be lists or binaries, but strings received from mongodb (as a result of find) will…
Send files faster with X-Sendfile | John Guenin →
Thereâs this slick HTTP header called âX-Sendfileâ that Apache and Lighttpd support. It was made to address this kind of problem (isnât that convenient?). Now, when you send an HTTP response,…
Lighttpd - HowToFightDeepLinking - lighty labs →
Emiller's Guide to Nginx Module Development →
To fully appreciate Nginx, the web server, it helps to understand Batman, the comic book character. Batman is fast. Nginx is fast. Batman fights crime. Nginx fights wasted CPU cycles and memory…
PackagingGuide/Complete - Ubuntu Wiki →
Welcome to the Ubuntu Packaging Guide! This guide is primarily addressed to those who would like to make and maintain Ubuntu packages. Although many of the concepts in this guide could be used to…
How-To: Repairing Faulty Headphones ·... →
The Death of the F-22 Fighter Plane | Newsweek... →
For more than 60 years, the Air Force has trumpeted itself as the service of glamour, its pilots ruling the skies, soaring, diving, bombing, and strafing from far aboveâyet still commanding the…
Slicehost Forum - cloudfiles api connecting →
If you have a Slice in the Dallas DC you will have a public IP and a private IP (if you don’t have a private IP, send in a ticket and we can add one: they are free of charge). Private IP bandwidth is…
Moonlight/SecurityStatus - Mono →
This page list the security related features of Moonlight. Another page list the validations needed to ensure both the Moonlight and Mono security features are working. Note: complete means badly…
ridiculous_fish » Blog Archive » I Didn’t Order... →
C++ was designed to ensure you “only pay for what you use,” and at that it is mostly successful. But itâs not entirely successful, and I thought it might be interesting to explore some…
Routes in TurboGears 2 (TG2) | Locomotion →
You may have noticed that routes donât work as you might expect them to in TurboGears 2.0. That is to say, that they donât work the way the docs suggest they should. If you just extend the…
Ultimate IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix 25+ Internet... →
The best strategy for dealing with Internet Explorer 6 is not to support it. Stop. Ok, I feel your frustration. You’re a web developer and you’re ready to tear your hair out because you have to…
How To: Cisco VPN with Snow Leopard via .pcf File →
Snow Leopard excitedly came out-of-the-box with support for Cisco IPsec VPN which is what a lot of companies use. The problem came when I tried to connect to the VPN at work. We were using the Cisco…
Robert Anton Wilson - The RICH Economy →
If there is one proposition which currently wins the assent of nearly everybody, it is that we need more jobs. “A cure for unemployment” is promised, or earnestly sought, by every Heavy Thinker from…
The Great Desktop Effects FAQ of 2009 - Ubuntu... →
Airborne EMTs Shave Seconds to Save Lives in... →
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - After they helped save the soldierâs life, the rescue team was pissed. Yeah, they were able to roll out from their plywood hooch, jump on their helicopters, fly to…
rethrow « Mono Runtime Notes →
In this article, I attempt to explore how Exception Handling (EH for
convenience) is implemented in the Mono Runtime. This I do by
considering a simple example assembly. As is customary,…
Opinion: The unspoken truth about managing geeks →
I can sum up every article, book and column written by notable management experts about managing IT in two sentences: “Geeks are smart and creative, but they are also egocentric, antisocial,…
Customizing the .NET Common Language Runtime |... →
The user double-clicks on a .NET program. The CLR loads it and runs it. Why would anyone need to customize the .NET Runtime? Access to the debugging API is one. Low-level monitoring of things like…
Embedding a JavaScript interpreter with Mono... →
Embedding IronPython as a scripting language «... →
A great way of extending an application is to allow users to write their own scripts. Fortunately, with the Dynamic Language Runtime it is fairly simple to provide scripting in your application….
America's Fat Hatred | Newsweek Health |... →
Practically the minute President Obama announced Regina M. Benjamin, a zaftig doctor who also has an M.B.A. and is the recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant,” as a nominee for the post of Surgeon…
Patch to add MongoDB Authentication to MongoKit →
Just shipped a patch to Namlook to add MongoDB’s authentication to MongoKit. (Auth.py in MongoKit provides frontend user authentication and should not be confused w/ ACL authentication on MongoDB,…
Why I (Still) Code - Continuations →
Kurt Vonnegut explains drama | Derek Sivers →
âPeople have been hearing fantastic stories since time began. The problem is, they think life is supposed to be like the stories. Let’s look at a few examples.â
Mind - Sleep May Be Nature’s Time Management Tool... →
If there is a society of expert sleepers out there, a cult of smug snoozers satisfied that theyâre getting just the right number of restful hours a night, it must be a secretive one. Most people…
How to Build a Hackintosh with Snow Leopard, Start... →
Two years ago, I detailed how to build a Hackintosh for under $800âthen covered how to do the same with less hacking. Now that Snow Leopard’s out, we’re revisiting the Hackintosh, building a Hack…
Using Mercurial Queues and bitbucket.org | Ches... →
Bitbucket is quite young and still in public beta, and theyâre working rapidly to make improvements and squash bugs, but they already have plenty of novel features working. One of the coolest ones…
Patterns in Python →
What design patterns are applicable to Python? Some patterns are an intrinsic part of Python, other patterns require some careful coding to get the best from them. What new patterns appear in Python?
iPhone ~ MonoTouch Framework Class Diagram →
VisualStudio 2008 class diagram of MonoTouch.Foundation and MonoTouch.UIKit namespaces from MonoTouch Framework (using DeepZoom). It would be cool if they classes where searchable and hyperlinked to…