stevekemp

My point is that you should give folk an idea of the kind of value you're expecting - $100? $500? $10000000000? Either way I think posting this here is inappropriate.

So free is too little. The registration fee was what? $10, $50, $100? Anything above that is just domaining.

There are three distinct parts to this: * Getting access to samples - should be simple via your favourite torrent site. * Writing a decent engine. Tricky, but not impossible if you've got access to t…

There's a brief review of available options here: https://github.com/skx/static-site-generators In conclusion most of them rock, but so many of them have problems with symlinks. I use templer:…

You're not alone - I'd clean my house before the cleaners turned up so they'd not judge me for my mess too!

That always reminds me of Tolkien's complaint that he was told one could not say "a green great dragon", but had to say "a great green dragon".

Annoyingly the UK decided that the sanest solution to bombs-in-bins was to remove bins from places like airports and train-stations. A real pain if you've got food and rubbish to dispose of.

I've been burned by these kind of tools before, when I started using the CDPATH variable, as supported by bash. Imagine the situation where you have a bunch of domains stored beneath /home/www. For e…

It does get addictive. One of my earliest memories was doing assembly programming on MS-DOS 3.3, when I came across Ralf Brown's interrupt list. My best result was a version of life that ran in about…

Seriously? They seem to post the same stories a day or two later than everybody else. When I remember how awesome it used to be, and then see the javascript-laden discussion pages I'm quietly sad. I …

Once upon a time, when java applets were exciting, fresh, and new, I wrote an applet which calculated digits of PI and used CGI to post them to my server. Visitors would watch animations, whilst I "st…

Most things aren't hard if you're only working at the scale of a single server. Running the actual Pinterest, with millions of users, would be pretty hard. (At least for those with no prior experienc…

Agreed. Half the reason that facebook is the way that it is now is because _everybody_ is there. A new site with a close-knit community will be awesome, have real interaction, and be fun. Then it wil…

If you want to be 100% reliable that implies you need servers at more than one ISP/location. That way if a single one dies you're still up and running on the others. Unfortunately that gets expensive…

> rollup is a db command You need to read "How to ask questions the smart way". A quick google suggests "rollup" is used with grouped-queries, so it is a modifier to an SQL select operation, not a…

A web-browser inside your editor? A mail client inside your editor? The ability to make HTTP-requests, parse their results, and format the results inside your existing editor window?

> Query: in screen I can switch between two buffers by doing ctrl+a, ctrl+a. This doesn't work in tmux. How do I configure this to work in tmux? "Ctrl-b n" for next-window?

I continue to be amazed by the people who install "random binaries" via PPA. I guess I assume that if you want cutting-edge packages you'll use a cutting-edge release/distribution. If you don't, and …

We use Request Tracker for our internal support tool. That started out when there were five people in the company, and now we're around fifteen now. It isn't the most attractive application, but with…

Thanks for the update. 6 months ago I paid £10 a piece to unlock 5 domains and move them away. I was not happy about it.

Beware they charge you a fee to transfer a domain _away_ from them. If you wish to move away you'll pay twice - once to get an unlock code, and ones for the renewal/transfer in to the new owner.

[I work for a hosting company.] Magento is very very very heavyweight. We've had the best success with running it behind varnish, via the varnish plugin. Other minor wins involve using memcached for …

Add s1jobs for Scotland, which I used in the past when I was looking.

I started a service, once upon a time, and to keep a clear separation I figured I'd register a company, get a company bank account, etc. In my case the actual product was a website, and that had a nam…

This is part of the reason why I went for a simple display in my self-hosted bookmark archive: demo: http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/bookmarks/bookmarks.public/ code: https://github.com/skx/bookma…

The other big difference is in regards to upgrades - I've upgraded Debian servers in-place for years. Even in the announcement this post links to the upgrade instructions are "reinstall". The differe…

Implementing such a service would be almost trivial; I'm genuinely surprised this is something that people would need. Register online-mail-form.com, and ask for £5 a year?

There are several options for software load-balancing. You can go all out and use heartbeat, or you can use something like varnish/pound - both of those will work as a reverse proxy to route traffic …

Balrogs have wings too, right? ;)

I agree entirely, as the author one of the goals was to be "serverless". That means there is no handling for TLS/certs - it is delegated to the transports. (So you can get security by using SSL-prote…