Optimising your LAMP stack for performance

By default, the standard LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql Php/Perl/Python) stack doesn’t come particularly well optimised for handling more than a trivial amount of load. For most people this isn’t a problem, either they’re running on a large enough server or their traffic is at a level that they never hit against the limits. Anyway, I’ve […]

Marcus Povey

By default, the standard LAMP (Linux Apache Mysql Php/Perl/Python) stack doesn’t come particularly well optimised for handling more than a trivial amount of load. For most people this isn’t a problem, either they’re running on a large enough server or their traffic is at a level that they never hit against the limits. Anyway, I’ve […]

I’m excited about the Raspberry Pi (and you should be too)

The Raspberry Pi is a tiny, solid state, and ludicrously cheap hobby ARM based computer designed in the UK (but thanks to insane UK tax laws needs to be built in China). It has a USB port, video, sound, an Ethernet port, 256MB RAM, and can run 3 distinct flavours of Linux. Ostensibly the device […]

Marcus Povey

The Raspberry Pi is a tiny, solid state, and ludicrously cheap hobby ARM based computer designed in the UK (but thanks to insane UK tax laws needs to be built in China). It has a USB port, video, sound, an Ethernet port, 256MB RAM, and can run 3 distinct flavours of Linux. Ostensibly the device […]

Howto: Printing to any printer with an iPad/iPhone and Apple Airprint

Apple Airprint is a technology (a zeroconf implementation under the bonnet) which allows apple devices to detect, configure and print without any overt configuration on the part of the user. The bad news is that in only works for a handful of airprint printers natively. But never fear, Linux to the rescue! At this point […]

Marcus Povey

Apple Airprint is a technology (a zeroconf implementation under the bonnet) which allows apple devices to detect, configure and print without any overt configuration on the part of the user. The bad news is that in only works for a handful of airprint printers natively. But never fear, Linux to the rescue! At this point […]