One of the most crucial parts of a web server is the HTTP daemon. This is the part of the server that serves up web pages to visitors. These pieces of software have been highly tooled and can handle a ton of traffic. The problem for a VPS lies in their memory consumption and CPU utilization. We will take a look at the three most common web servers today: Apache, IIS, and lighttpd. Continue Reading »
Choosing a Server Distro
When someone asks what is the best Linux distribution out there it is very hard to answer. The reason is everyone has different opinions and almost anyone you ask will give you a different answer. This is usually due to the person’s experiences with a certain distro.
If you have never ran Linux before, I would suggest running it at least a week prior to paying for any type of server you have to manage. If you do not want to dedicated a server just to this function there is a wonderful technology of virtual machines. VMs allow you to have multiple operating systems on top of your primary machine. Continue Reading »
A Movement to Block Firefox?
Over the last few months I’ve started to hear rumblings about people blocking Firefox. The main source of issue comes from a site whyfirefoxisblocked.com. The site explains how to block Firefox and tries to give some valid reason for doing so.
The main reason the site offers to block Firefox is due to one extension, adblock. This extension allows you to block any content on the site that you wish, mainly ads. You can block just about any embedded object that you wish. It can be a image, an externally loaded javascript file, or flash file. Continue Reading »
DRM and Why You Should Hate it
One of the most popular topics of geeks today is this little thing called Digital Rights Management or better known as DRM. In a nutshell DRM is a way for copyright owners to protect their content, which is good in theory. In practice its another story. Continue Reading »
RAM, What a Wonderful Thing
When you’ve been running OS X with a single gig of ram for the entire time you’ve ran the operating system you start to believe that things are just inevitably slow. Well, I finally went out and got two extra gigs of ram for my laptop, giving it a total of three gigs. Holy flying hippos this computer is fast. The first thing I noticed was about thirty seconds off the boot time. This pretty much cut my boot time in half. Continue Reading »
Apple Restricting iPhone and now iPod Touch… What’s Next?
The last few months Apple has releaed quite a few new gadgets. Most notably is the iPhone and now the iPod Touch. These two devices are very similar in the function of the screen is the main control and both ran on a slimmed down version of OS X.
The problem lies in the fact that they’ve limited the functionality of each of these devices. At this point in time you are unable to create third party applications without hacking the device. People state that Apple does not want to allow third party due to a deal with AT&T. The question is then; why does every other smart phone on the market allow third party applications? Continue Reading »
