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Configuring the Apache MPM on Fedora

Configuring the Apache MPM on Fedora

If you take nothing else away from this article, let it be that you should tailor your MPM’s MaxClients setting so that your web server won’t try to allocate more resources than you have available. Better that a visitor wait a moment for a connection than that the server should dip into swap for more memory and bring the entire virtual machine to a crawl.

Color builder for 256-color terminal

Color builder for 256-color terminal

With most Linux terminals now supporting 256 colors, a tool like this one is mighty useful in building the escape sequences.  For off-line use, all code is available in GitHub repository, and all logic behind the calculations is explained in this Habrahabr post (albeit, in Russian).

Microsoft has failed

Microsoft has failed

Microsoft is largely irrelevant to computing of late, the only markets they still play in are evaporating with stunning rapidity. Their long history of circling the wagons tighter and tighter works decently as long as there is not a credible alternative, and that strategy has been the entirety of the Microsoft playbook for so long that there is nothing else now. It works, and as the walls grow higher, customer enmity builds while the value of an alternative grows. This cycle repeats as long as there is no alternative. If there is, everything unravels with frightening rapidity.

Read the whole thing – it’s a really good summary of where Microsoft stands today.