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I’ve been on and on about using Squid as a reverse proxy that at times it must seem that I’m bordering on being completely obsessed with it. Well I suppose that is partly true. The performance boost that it can deliver is staggering and to get an idea of how well it performs look no further [...]

Some of you may be aware of the setup that I have here at home that dishes this blog and several other sites out onto the world wild web. I have probably an overly complicated setup in which I have no less than 3 backend servers with a Squid Proxy server acting as the front [...]

Due to having copious amounts of time since being being made redundant I’ve been trying to keep busy as best I can. Of course Lucas keeps me busy at times but I also need to feed my inner geek. So for the past couple of days I’ve made a cantenna and have been busy circling [...]

Given the battering AVG have recieved and the battering a lot of web servers have received, my own included, AVG are finally pushing out a new update to all of its users to disable the Link scanner feature. It will take a few days before all users get the update so we should see a [...]

I wrote last month about an enormous amount of traffic being directed to this blog all of a sudden. The culprit is the latest version of AVG antivirus which installs a module called ‘Linkscanner’. Essentially what this does is when someone searches Google for example, Linkscanner will automatically check every link in the results. The [...]

Maybe someone might be able to enlighten me? I’ve been observing some really, really strange behaviour while looking through my log files. Two posts that I put up a few months ago are getting a lot of traffic. 896 hits alone on one and 154 on the other. in the past three days. Now that [...]

Back in the first week of May I wrote that I was getting an error from one of the disks from the RAID array on my main workstation. Well it has finally died on me. I configured them in a RAID 0 array for a boost in performance and one of them has just given [...]

It’s enough to drive you to drink. A friend bought a new laptop for his son recently. Nothing special about the laptop, an Acer Extensa 5220 but quite nice nonetheless as a surfing, mail and watching DVD’s machine. They bought in mid April and it went kaput 5 days ago so he asked me to [...]