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Installing PHP 5.3, Nginx And PHP-fpm On Ubuntu/Debian Since Apache is most of the time a memory hungy process, people started to look for different ways to host their website. Apache is clearly not the only webserver available. A few good examples are lighttpd and nginx. In this tutorial I will show you how to install it on your Ubuntu server. This tutorial […]

How To Set Up MySQL Database Replication With SSL Encryption On Ubuntu 9.10 This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL using an SSL connection for encryption (to make it impossible for hackers to sniff out passwords and data transferred between the master and slave). MySQL replication allows you to have an exact copy of a database fr […]

How To Upgrade Debian Etch To Lenny Debian Etch is soon to be unsupported by the Debian team, therefore all Debian Linux Servers need to be upgraded to Debian Lenny. I work for Netzen (an IT Support company) and have upgraded many Linux servers to Debian Lenny over the past months, so I am providing this guide on how to upgrade Debian Etch to Debian Lenny to […]

Photo courtesy Flickr user Scoutj. This article just drew my attention to the interesting story behind carmine, which is a pigment precipitated from carminic acid (shown below) extracted from the bodies of Dactylopius coccus, the so-called "cochineal" insect, of which the acid comprises up to 24% of dry body weight. The cochineal is a parasite of c […]

Photo Courtesy CollectSPACE.com When I interviewed STS-130 Mission Specialist, Bob Behnken last week in Houston at Johnson Space Center, I asked his advice for what to expect at my first shuttle launch. He gave me three tips: First, he said, "Bring bug spray." Fortunately, we didn't have to worry about that with this morning's cold, windy […]

Can't wait to cozy up to the new Apple iPad? Why not try your hand at constructing this handsome papercraft surrogate? Here's links to the front and back. It may not have access to your iTunes or eBooks like the real thing, but it does share its good looks and lack of multitasking, GPS, and camera. [via MacRumors] More:Theo Jansen papercraft walker […]

Computer geeks over the weekend had a dorkgasm at the sight of a report hinting at an upcoming MacBook Pro equipped with Intel’s latest mobile processor. Readers of MacRumors.com spotted Geekbench benchmark results for what appears to be a MacBook Pro featuring a 2.66GHz Core i7 M620, a high-end dual core processor featuring Intel’s Hyperthreading and [. […]

Could gesture recognition become the successor to touchscreen? And if it does, what would it be like to use it to interact with our gadgets. A prototype design shows a cube-shaped device that can be used to access music, look up recipes and flick through photos. The idea called Gesture Cube senses hand movements made close to [...] […]

Now that Apple has chosen the famously awkward name “iPad” for its tablet, the most obvious candidate “iTablet” is up for grabs. Sure enough, a UK company is leaping at the opportunity. X2 is happy to announce it’s “hot on the heels of Apple’s latest product launch” with the iTablet, which will run Windows 7 and [...] […]

Lego’s programmable robotics set Mindstorms is a fun toy for computing enthusiasts but if you really want to take it to the next level, check out Mark Weller’s project. Weller, a machinist and technician at the McCoy School of Engineering at Midwestern State University, combined milled plastic pieces with the basic Lego Mindstorms set to create [...] […]

Apple has posted a news bulletin for iPhone developers, informing them they may not use the phone’s geolocation features primarily for delivering targeted ads. What that means is if you’re playing a game that doesn’t use geolocation for gameplay, and all it’s doing is tracking your location to serve location-based ads, it’ll get rejected. (Many med […]

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CBC.caSpace Shuttle Endeavor Blasts OffWall Street JournalAP John Raoux/AP Space shuttle Endeavour lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Monday. CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida—Endeavour and six astronauts rocketed into orbit Monday on what's expected to be the last nighttime launch for the ...Space Shuttle Lights Up Night SkyInform […]

Telegraph.co.ukConsumers lose interest in iPad after Apple's unveiling - surveyApple InsiderDespite a highly publicized public debut, potential customers lost a great deal of interest in Apple's new touchscreen iPad after it was unveiled, a new study has found. A survey of more than 1000 randomly selected customers at the ...Apple's iPad: A Bl […]

SlashGear (blog)Nook back on saleCNETBarnes & Noble's Nook e-reader, which sold out over the winter holidays, is available online once again, the company said Monday. The Nook is also expected to show up in most B&N stores by midweek. After running out of the e-readers ...Barnes & Noble says Nook e-readers back in stockZDNet (blog)Barnes […]

Geeky gadgetsI Worry About The iPad, Not AppleAtlantic OnlineWhen the iPad was first announced by Apple a few weeks ago, many voiced their concern that the device might be too expensive and too unnecessary to interest many consumers. I was one of those critics, writing a post titled, "I'm Worried About The iPad. ...El Reg reader assembles own iPadR […]

BollyPatrika.com (blog)Google Ads Level the Playing FieldPC WorldWhile the annual Puppy Bowl on Animal Planet offers an enticing alternative to the Super Bowl for those who aren't football fans, almost everyone loves to watch the NFL championship game just for the $2 million per 30-second spot ...Google's Display-Ad Sales Should Top $1 BillionBusin […]

TIME's Sean Gregory gets a shooting lesson from U.S. Olympic favorite Tim Burke as he trains for the games in Vancouver […]

Real time voice translation is on the way and Google aims to pioneer it. The Internet giant wants to develop its smartphone technology to translate speech in real time. […]

A toxic liquid has been creeping through the soil of cities in the mid-Hudson Valley for more than a century. From the 1800s to the 1950s, manufactured gas plants provided light and heat to thousands who walked city streets and lived in city homes. But an industrial byproduct from those plants, coal tar, has been leaking into the ground since then. […]

Rahm Emanuel is facing a political correctness crisis, and as a noted American once said, we should never let a crisis go to waste. […]

Laura Chinchilla, a protege of Nobel peace laureate President Oscar Arias, won a landslide election victory in Costa Rica on Sunday to become the country's first woman elected. […]

Our cell phones aren't just for calls anymore. They hold our address books, our calendars, our emails, and our grocery lists. They may even include things like a list of questions to ask your doctor, pictures of your girlfriend, or URLs of web sites you've visited. When can police search your phone and look at all this information? That's the […]

Google's ad during yesterday's Superbowl explained in less than a minute how the story of someone's life can be pieced together from their search queries. Using only the search terms and user's clicks of the search results, Google told the story of a user who seeks love while studying abroad in Paris, finds it, moves to Paris, marries and […]

Philadelphia - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will be arguing this Thursday before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit in Philadelphia, urging the court to block a government attempt to seize telephone company records detailing a cell phone user's past locations without first getting a search warrant. EFF is serving as a friend of th […]