Tag Archive: hacks

Jan
21
2012

Memory hotplug in Linux

VMware has a nice feature where you can add memory and CPUs on the fly without rebooting the server. It works like a charm in Windows, but it did not work out of the box in Linux.

Aug
09
2011

Dirty mod_cache hack

Let us say that you have a couple of Apache HTTPd servers in front and a number of machines running Windows IIS in the backend, all connected through a number of load balanced addresses. Say that said setup is running Apache HTTPd 1.3.x, which is getting pretty old, and that you want to upgrade it …

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Aug
07
2011

Getting WordPress to behave

First of all, a little disclaimer: I believe that WordPress is a nice Open Source project – and it is awesome that they are giving it away for free. It makes it easy for anyone to publish content on the internet. However, it has a couple of issues that makes it a bit of an …

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