HOW TO : Configure Jboss to use hugepages in RHEL/CentOS
Most of us worry about paging to disk (swap), but if you are running a transaction intensive application the paging that happens in RAM also starts...
HOW TO : Install RPM packages without checking gpg key
This is on RHEL and CentOS distros. If you want to install packages without checking the GPG key (hope you know why you are doing this!!),...
HOW TO : Sync git clients across workstations using dropbox
I have recently started using git as a source control for the various scrips that I write. As I also mentioned in this post, I use...
Project Uptime : Progress Report 6 : Tweaking Varnish
The server has held up pretty well, since the installation of varnish. Based on this wiki post, I added the following to /etc/varnish/default.vcl [code] <pre> #...
HOW TO : Check number of processes (including threads) being run/executed by a user in Linux
Quick how to for finding out the list of processes, including threads spawned by these processes [code] ps -eLf | grep USERNAME [/code] Explanation of the...
Using Apache mod_rewrite for enhancing your application security
For my own notes.. very nice post on perishablepress.com regarding using the different capabilities of mod_rewrite to secure your website (application) http://perishablepress.com/eight-ways-to-blacklist-with-apaches-mod_rewrite/