Category: Computer Tech

Apache is now sitting at 56% market share compared to IIS’ 30% – it has lost about 2.86% recently due to Netcraft  changing Google’s points from Apache to GFE ( Google Front End ).

Con Kolivas has 2.6.20ck(s) available now for those who like better desktop interativity …

Well I’ve decided  to take another bash at getting the bcm43xx to work on my laptop ( HP nx6310 ). I’ve seen quite a lot of fixes in 2.6.20 so have uprgaded to that and everything appears to be working now – just needed to use the wl-apsta firmware with the bcm43xx_fwcutter. Will test against…

For those running php heavy suites, XCache is one of the best php code optimizers available. The admin page allows one to check the cache hit/miss ratio and to date I’ve not had any issues with it.

My new streaming audio server is now available at http://www.xstore.co.za:8000/xstore.ogg – music for the masses.

… in the linux section as well as a redesigned  newsletter section with historical articles.

FuzzyOCR is a SpamAssassin plugin that provides recognition of image spam using a variety of OCR engines. Installation is fairly straightforward although there is a fair list of requirements such as Tesseract, gocr, ocrad and some perl modules … but the results are worth it.

Modsecurity 2.0 has been released and I’ve been testing it on my Apache 2/ssl/php/dav/perl/python install. Some issues here and there ( with WordPress, Drupal and Squirrel ) but it’s just a matter of checking the audit log for the offending entry and commenting it out of the config.

My 2nd IT Bulletin has gone out at the end of january and the response so far has been good but muted – comments are welcome folks …

I’m putting up an XStore IT Bulletin with information relating to businesses and their IT use. The current bulletin will always be at www.xstore.co.za/current.html and I’ll keep an archive of the previous months’ information. If there is anyone who would like to contribute, they are welcome to send me tips, hints and entire articles.

The news regarding the agreement between Microsoft and Novell is not great for the OpenSource community; Microsoft appears to be trying either 1. to cover itself in the event that Linux/OpenSource pulls ahead and becomes popular on a profit threatening scale or 2. tying Novell/Suse into an agreement which will threaten Open Source itself. Microsoft…

Trying out a new dns server called maradns which has a much simplified syntax over BIND. A simple main config file with your domains lsited and then a zone file for each domain. Not much to it.

There is now a demo section available on my site ( just click demos on the left menu ) for those looking to check the functionality of a wide variety of web applications.

The annual Portuguese ‘Blessing of the Fleet’ was well attended yesterday at the V&A Waterfront even though the weather seemingly refused to play along. There was a variety of food ranging from steak rolls, tuna rolls and Bolo do Caco to malasadas and Pasteis da Nata. The traditional folk dancing provided a treat for all.