• ABB: “Interview these 12 people TODAY!”
  • Me: “OK…”, HOURS later… “I liked these 2, what’s next?”
  • ABB: “Didn’t you hear? Hiring freeze in effect for the next 12 months!”With all the non-productive interviews Zac and I have done here at ABB over the last few months, I’ve scrounged up a lame list like this at least two dozen times. NO MORE! 😛

    And to guarantee this is the final time, I’m cutting and pasting it into the body of this article (hit “Read More” to see it)… (continued…)

  • New HangTheDJ version is available here.

    Nothing major, just fixed the refresh on filter change. This also has the first bit of skinning in it, so it is a bit ugly. Sorry! :>

    Once I wrap up the skinning, and a few other odds and ends (the menu on both the small view and the taskbar view, for example), I think I will go for a major release. Hope you enjoy.

    First step, set up a linux user and a Windows logon that match.

    Viewing Windows shares from linux
    Type the following (eventually set it up to run on boot):



    mount -t smbfs //sharename/c /mnt/sharename_c -o username=### -orw -ofmask=777 -odmask=777 -ouid=www
    (### = your Windows/linux logon name)

    Viewing linux partitions from Windows
    Set up /etc/samba/smb.cnf as follow
    then run [/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart]



    workgroup = #### (set to match Windows PC’s)
    hosts allow = 192.168.###. (### = your LAN’s range)
    [root]
    comment = root path
    path = /
    public = yes
    writable = yes
    printable = no
    write list = @### (### = your Windows/linux logon name)
    create mask = 0755

    Running this little site, along with online bookmarks and online email, has really been kicking Apache’s booty on my little K6-2 400MHz. Checking Apache’s performance-tuning help, I tweaked the following:

    • MaxClients 15
      This is the most fundamental setting, I turned it down from 150 to 15 to stop all the page swapping I was getting.
    • AllowOverride None
      This saves Apache from having to look for any “.htaccess” files that happen to be scattered about.
    • Options FollowSymLinks
      This saves Apache from having to call lstat all over the place to see if a file is a symlink.
    • HostnameLookups off
      This saves Apache from having to do DNS resolutions of names from all the IP’s just so it can write them in logs or whatever.

    1000% snappier! Happy happy joy joy!

    Xax has gotten another round of the Embedded HTTP Server (EHS) together. It now handles MIME! Check it out at his EHS page.