Mounting UFS/ext2/ext3 filesystems on Windows XP, ...

After cleaning out the garage, I came across an old box that had been sitting in the corner for many years. The bottle recycling depots in my area now take old computer parts (Canada put in a small environmental tax on new electronics, so now the recycling places take old stuff for free!), so it's pretty convenient to get rid of this stuff now. However, I knew the hard drive likely contained old checked-out code that...

Build a CentOS LAMP server

I finally finished re-building a development CentOS LAMP server. More importantly, and the primary purpose of the whole exercise, is that I finished my guide to building a CentOS LAMP server. I am happy to now post said guide on this blog (under Articles), for everyone to read and abuse as they please! So here you go… may I present Blake's CentOS LAMP Server Guide, single-page edition, and the perhaps friendlier...

Benchmarking Mono ASP.Net vs. PHP – a slight...

We promised some numbers, but I've run into a snag that's slowed down my testing. Originally when we first started toying with the idea of pitting Mono + ASP.Net against PHP, I wrote a quick PHP script that would just make a cheap fopen call to whatever URL you wanted to test, however many times you wanted to hit it. This isn't really load-testing, it's more like a basic timer, and not a very accurate...