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Lets say you are running a website, and you don’t mind people hot linking images, like your Logo, or other resources, and at the same time, you want to enable a (short) Keep Alive timeout for your normal users. Normal … Continue reading →

for snickerdoodles: now its just down to execution.

Last week ended with a boom.  I was about to start upgrading wiki.apache.org to a modern version of MoinMoin when I noticed some odd CGIs running on www.apache.org.  All of that mess is just about over now.  We (royal) have … Continue reading →

It is good practice to send 503 Status codes when your site has downtime or is doing an upgrade. The easiest way to do this for all your URLs is something like this using mod_asis: # Bind mod_asis to files … Continue reading →

my favorite part of mbox_parse.c: /** * List of all C-T-E Types found on httpd-dev and FreeBSD-current: * * Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit * Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT * Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit * Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit * Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8-bit * Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT * … Continue reading →

Having some fun times with people.apache.org: minotaur# uname -a FreeBSD minotaur.apache.org 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Wed Aug 5 01:05:27 UTC 2009 root@loki.apache.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MINOTAUR amd64 minotaur# zpool status pool: tank state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The … Continue reading →

I pay Comcast $155.00 a month for TV and fast internet — baring the download limits I never hit, It is an acceptable service, even if still overpriced. Yesterday I got a call from Comcast.  I didn’t think much of … Continue reading →

I can never remember all of the options for malloc(3) on OSX when debugging. So I’m posting it here so I can find it with Google Search next time I need to find it: export MallocLogFile=/tmp/malloc.log export MallocGuardEdges=1 export MallocStackLogging=1 … Continue reading →

I am happy to announce that I am joining Cloudkick next week. It should be a different experience to compared to Joost; Very small company vs Medium, everyone is local vs everyone is distributed, and languages I enjoy (Python, C) … Continue reading →

Friday July 31 will be my last day at Joost. It was a fun ride for the last 19 months.  Starting out working on Joost’s P2P library, later on our Content Delivery over HTTP, and more recently writing Server Side … Continue reading →

While it can be fun to be the only one in the world doing something, much more thought should be given to why no one else is doing something.

Better quality ?

Raining today in NYC. Happy to be going home to sunny California!

In NYC this week. Woooooo.

10 years is pretty amazing!