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A minor (but vital) Apache performance tweak

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:57:54 +0000

My problems seem to have become more rare since I started blocking spambots and tuned PHP and Apache but last night my server ran out of memory again and started timing out. It turns out I still had a critical

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Encryption on the cheap

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 05 Mar 2002 06:18:29 +0000

Disspam cruises along. It's not often that I gush about a program, let alone a 4.5K Perl script, but Disspam continues to make my life easier. Granted, it simply takes advantage of existing network resources, but they're resources that were previously (to my knowledge) limited to the mail administrator. Literally half my e-mail at home today was spam. Disspam caught every last piece.

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Stopping spam.

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 04 Mar 2002 17:51:23 +0000

Forget what I wrote yesterday. I was going to post the stuff I wrote in Ohio when I realized it isn't all that good, it's definitely not useful, and the people who annoy me the most are the people who can't get over themselves. No one cares what I ate for breakfast, and the only people who care what went on in Ohio already know.

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