Dev

This isn’t actually a eulogy .. I just wanted to show Alex some visuals on the hardware that is running freecog.com. I’ve run my primary site from this little beast for years (previously on a PII box running FreeBSD). It wasn’t a problem until I started working at Mozilla. I now get enough page hits that the lights dim at my apartment and the special lady friend, my partner, complains that the Internet noticeably slows. This happens whenever I submit a post and more than a handful of people decide to read it. ...

Recently I needed to find the equivalent of /etc/hosts for Win7. I’ll be honest, my first attempt at poking around Windows was a complete flop. I haven’t worked in a Windows environment in years and I can’t claim that I was a power user at that time (even remotely). Let me quickly get to the point of this post, on Win7 there exists a hosts file. I was pleasantly surprised that it functions the same as /etc/hosts on Linux. ...