We have launched a new anti-spyware and antivirus to help people fight computer malware threats. It is called www.2-viruses.com. Our goal is to provide users with accurate and up-to-date information how to protect their pc’s from software targeted to pull their money like spy locked or zlob. We hope to Read more…
Just a quick note for warm-up. Recent server maintenance and test showed me, that postgresql behaves badly when there are more than couple indexes on the same table. We have some tables that are used in various queries using quite many criteria to determine the result, thus more than couple Read more…
Recently we have migrated some of less intensive sites to weaker servers, and noticed quite strange behavior: mysql starts consuming more and more memory till it crashes. The loads go up as all the memory and swap space is consumed. We could not track down the problem easily. We tried to find out what’s the problem for a couple of days till we found out.
Here are some tips for working with postgresql databases
Most, if not all, common websites that run under PHP and apache use mysql for the database. Mysql is fast, reliable and free. However, there are other solutions, and, inspired by some colleagues, we have tried postgresql in a complex project. The project basis is many types of profiles connected through various relationships. These types share some but not all properties, and have complex messaging and listing system to access each of the profiles. The recoding started in spring 2005. The results at this date are in the entry.
Recently discovered Windows WMF bug havent been unnoticed by various moneymakers. They have discovered the bug even earlier probably and did not shun from using it to make money from various visitors of the websites. One way of exploit the bug is shown in websecuritylabs. One should watch the movie Read more…
Personally, I prefer programming using Firefox as the fronted for looking at programming results. The benefit of this over the usage of explorer is that one sees mistakes better and there are better set of tools to evaluate the result or check the design in progress. The first and perhaps Read more…
Couple of years ago the browser world looked simple: There is internet explorer and that’s it. Of cause, there were opera, safari for MAC, and mozilla, but they were for marginal users: geeks, Linux or Mac users and security aware folk. IE had more that 90 % of the market Read more…
Have just upgraded to the version 2.0 of wordpress. Some new nice features aded, like TinyMCE, for example. The web software is getting close to the common office software.
Recently my friend Jedas, who is interested in Embeded harware, microcontrolers and electronics launched a blog related to these subjects : GotArmed.com. He wants to show the world his weird experiments with embeded processors, mostly arms and a place to keep record about them. Take a look!