Dustin Larmeir's tech blog.
Archive for September, 2008
Why I always go back to Debian + Lighttpd
Sep 9th
I love this stack for webservers. Super light and super fast. I plan on writing a tutorial soon that will explain vhosts and the like. Take a look at the memory consumption of this server.
i-ride-on:~# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1004 103 901 0 6 52
-/+ buffers/cache: 44 959
Swap: 1608 0 1608
The Chinese space walk mission, coming soon
Sep 8th
It looks like the Chinese are going to do a spacewalk… I think what they are really doing is trying to crack the international space stations encryption key for their wifi network http://larmeir.com/?p=156 :) You can read more about this here http://science.slashdot.org/science/08/09/08/1212252.shtml.
Green Polar bears oh my!
Sep 8th
The AP reports that green Polar bears are drawing much curiousity. I am color blind so what do I care 
. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080907/ap_on_fe_st/odd_japan_green_bears;_ylt=AjmKW3b_83kmL2J9yQyT.TjtiBIF
Teenager’s jaw broken by a flying carp.
Sep 8th
Well, I have been fishing since I was young and have seen some strange stuff out on the lake, but I can honstly say I have never heard of anything this obsurd. A teenageer getting his jaw broken by a silver asian carp in Arkansas. Read about it here http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,418404,00.html.
Might get breezy in Texas with Hurricane Ike
Sep 8th
Looks like it may be heading the way of good ol’ Texas, I’ll be keeping my eye on this one.
