iRail source is on Github. To access the iRail source code; Be aware you need to be added as contributor before being able to commit changes. get Git [browse to some folder] mkdir git cd git git clone git@github.com:Tuinslak/iRail.git cd iRail git fetch To edit & commit changes: git add [file] git commit -m ‘edited [file], [...]
Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
July 27, 2010
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US government legalizes iPhone ‘jailbreaking,’ unlocking
By Tuinslak in Misc, Software, iPhoneAnd I quote from AppleInsider; The U.S. government on Monday announced new rules that make it officially legal for iPhone owners to “jailbreak” their device and run unauthorized third-party applications. In addition, it is now acceptable to unlock any cell phone for use on multiple carriers. According to The Associated Press, the government approved a handful of [...]
June 30, 2010
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nginx configs
By Tuinslak in Linux, Software, wwwBeen slacking a bit lately, but here they are: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf // general nginx config /etc/nginx/sites-available/blog // my current (as of posting this) rproxy settings for this blog /etc/nginx/conf.d/proxy.conf // reverse proxy related config
Tags: nginx
June 20, 2010
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iRail slashdot effect
By Tuinslak in Linux, Networking, Software, iRail, wwwOnly because stats are pretty awesome. The effects of my media attention a few days ago. I’ll give some more info than what can be seen here. And pretty happy I set up my nginx caching up a few weeks ago. MRTG traffic stats on vm1, my nginx caching server, of the first 2 days [...]
June 9, 2010
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nginx cache in tmpfs
By Tuinslak in Linux, Software, wwwProbably won’t change a lot to my performance, but I’ve mounted the nginx reverse proxy cache in a tmpfs mount. none on /var/cache/nginx/blog type tmpfs (rw,size=512m) none 512M 47M 466M 4% /var/cache/nginx/blog Let’s see what performance boosts this will give.
Tags: nginx
June 8, 2010
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Mac OS X + SSD tweaks
By Tuinslak in Hardware, Mac, SoftwareCame across a pretty cool howto to tweak your SSD on a Mac. Only thing I noticed is setting the hibernate mode to 0 made my mac randomly wake up a few seconds after it went to sleep (and happened most often when closing the lid, less often when clicking the sleep button; randomly closing [...]
Tags: ssd
May 23, 2010
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nginx reverse proxy with caching
By Tuinslak in Linux, Networking, Software, wwwPlaying around and searching the web I enabled some decent caching now. Here are some stats: image+html and php. Note that the php on apache (recompiled each request, about 1.5-2sec between every request) versus the cached output has a huge difference. Difference between images and static text files aren’t that huge. Also note that nginx [...]
Tags: nginx
May 22, 2010
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nginx reverse proxy IP
By Tuinslak in Linux, Networking, Software, wwwThe issue with the wrong IP address being shown when using nginx as reverse proxy can easily be solved with mod_rpaf. cache.blog.tuinslak.org 85.234.196.237 – – [22/May/2010:16:33:46 +0200] “GET /2010/05/nginx-reverse-proxy/ HTTP/1.0″ 200 6184 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_3; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.53 Safari/533.4″ 1766 6503 vs cache.blog.tuinslak.org 85.12.6.171 – – [...]
Tags: nginx
May 22, 2010
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nginx reverse proxy
By Tuinslak in Linux, Networking, Software, wwwI’ve been playing around a bit with nginx and its reverse proxy module. The “real” website is accessible here, whereas the cached version is here. I’m deliberately making a difference between cache.* and live.* as blog.tuinslak.* might move to the cached version lateron. The question, is it useful to reverse proxy this blog? No, probably [...]
Tags: nginx
March 21, 2010
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nginx + fastcgi PHP
By Tuinslak in Errors, Linux, Software, wwwI recently migrated vm1 to nginx instead of lighttpd. Just for the sake of playing and testing around. As there’s a PHP page as well, I had to set up fastcgi with PHP. I mainly followed this tutorial to try to get PHP working. However, every PHP page I visited returned following error: No input [...]