Improving Apache Clustered Performance

Use Apache 2.4 (so if you use Centos / RHEL, use v7). This has lower memory requirements, stable Event MPM (see below) and far more functionality. If you terminate SSL at Apache, use a clustered cache to keep track of SSL sessions. Otherwise the SSL session establishment will have to be renegotiated every time you …

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Blog spam from 37.59.173.124

Not sure why OVH allows one of its customers (37.59.173.124) to blog spam From: Jason Peterson <zanationline@gmail.com> Subject: Increase Sales / Customers Message Body: Would you like to see you how your competitors are getting more sales than you are? Improving your website visibility online is more important than ever. What’s a good phone number …

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Command Line tools

Here are the tools I use to live my  life on the command line: Mail Client: Mutt Filtering: procmail, imapfilter Search: mairix General Web Client: Lynx, Links, Elinks, w3m Tools: wget, aria2c, curl Web Services Toodledoo: toodledo (ruby gem) Misc search engines: Surfraw Google Calendar: gagenda Ebay: esniper BBC Iplayer: get_iplayer Google Drive: gdrive Google …

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Commandline IMAP Mail check & Screen

I wanted a commandline IMAP mailbox checker so I wrote one: imapchkr Normal output for this is as below: ➜ ~ [jamespo: 0/190] [gmail: 0/80] But I decided I wanted to embed it in my GNU screen hardstatus so expanded it to offer a short output option (imapchkr -s). See bottom left corner for output. …

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