Category Archives: internet

As If You Were In China

Posted on 2010-07-10 by Stefan Rubner

The Firefox add-on China Channel offers internet user outside China to surf the web as if they were in China. Take an unforgetable virtual trip to China and experience the technical expertise of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (supported … Continue reading →

Posted in internet, the ugly truth | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Workaround

Posted on 2010-07-07 by Stefan Rubner
Posted in Helden der Technik, Misc, Software, internet, the ugly truth | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Building A 64-bit Resin On Solaris 10 Using SunStudio 12u1

Posted on 2010-07-01 by Stefan Rubner

This has been bothering me for quite some time. Resin is one of the best application servers I’ve come across. But to get the best performance out of it, you need to recompile it for your platform. While this is … Continue reading →

Posted in Software, Solaris, internet | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

WordPress 3.0: In the Update-Loop

Posted on 2010-06-18 by Stefan Rubner

After updating my WordPress installation to 3.0 I was stuck in the Update Loop. Every time I tried to access the admin interface WordPress would send me to the database update page where it then would say “No Update Required”. … Continue reading →

Posted in Software, internet | Leave a comment

Apache Patch: Pass environment variables to backends connected via mod_proxy_ajp

Posted on 2009-11-20 by Stefan Rubner

One popular method to connect Tomcat or JBoss to the Apache web server is using mod_proxy_ajp. This of course works very well except for the case where you want to pass some environment variables to the backends. This is especially … Continue reading →

Posted in Linux, Networks, Software, internet | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Code of the day

Posted on 2009-11-18 by Stefan Rubner

#if __APPLE__ && __MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_5 int inxorcise(int nochdir __attribute__((unused)),               int noclose __attribute__((unused))) {     fprintf(stderr, "Apple does not want programs to use         daemon(3) and suggests using launchd(1).  We don’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Helden der Lyrik, Software, internet, the ugly truth | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Give more threads to Varnish

Posted on 2009-11-04 by Stefan Rubner

When running my preferred proxy cache Varnish on Linux I realized that I couldn’t start enough threads on heavily accessed systems. As I found out, reducing the stack size is the key to get to the number I need. Oh … Continue reading →

Posted in Helden der Technik, Linux, Networks, Software, internet | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Nice Try

Posted on 2009-10-14 by Stefan Rubner

Unfortunately for the sender, though, I happen to know the tech support guy of said domain in person.

Posted in Helden der Technik, internet, the ugly truth | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Move it, move it (a.k.a. “Screw it up the IBM way”)

Posted on 2009-10-06 by Stefan Rubner

I work with web sites for a living. I give them a place to live, I trash them when they’re no longer needed and I also move them. And believe me, moving a site is the trickiest of the jobs. … Continue reading →

Posted in Helden der Technik, Misc, Networks, Software, internet, security, the ugly truth | Tagged , , , , , | 9 Comments

Remove outdated languages from Ubuntu’s Firefox

Posted on 2009-09-16 by Stefan Rubner

Always on the bleeding edge I like to use beta versions of upcoming Ubuntu releases. This sometimes poses a little problem: More often than not, there come outdated language definitions with Firefox, causing some minor annoyances. The biggest annoyance of … Continue reading →

Posted in Software, internet, the ugly truth | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment