rit's ramblings
September 28, 2009
September 25, 2009

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…

September 24, 2009

There’s this slick HTTP header called “X-Sendfile” that Apache and Lighttpd support. It was made to address this kind of problem (isn’t that convenient?). Now, when you send an HTTP response,…

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…

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…

September 23, 2009
September 20, 2009

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 above—yet still commanding the…

September 18, 2009

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…

September 17, 2009

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…