June 2009

02 Jun 2009

Time Machine making me all grumpy

By jmccabe
technical: 
mac
time machine
backup
exclusion

Time Machine is the built-in backup tool in MacOS X 10.5. It takes a snapshot of files that have changed (by default it does this once an hour) and copies them to a sparse image on a USB, FireWire, or network volume (this typically requires an Apple Time Capsule drive or a MacOS X 10.5 machine sharing a drive - with a bit of hacking about it can be made to work with cheaper NAS configurations).

09 Jun 2009

(Some of) Sun loves (Sun|Open) Web Server

By jmccabe
technical: 
Sun Web Server
Open Web Server

Jed has some nice things to say about Sun Web Server. In his nice things he also shows three tricks that are a pain to set up in other servers including use of the lookup() function to allow content owners to control expires headers for various content, URL rewriting, and conditional reverse-proxying to a back-end system.

See? SEE? More people should use this server. It's full of awesome.

09 Jun 2009

PHP now working better

By jmccabe
technical: 
Sun Web Server
Open Web Server
PHP

Due to a really lame hack in PHP (when used as a FastCGI provider) to detect whether the HTTP front-end is Apache, PHP behaved really, really badly when used with non-Apache servers if the HTTP server provided both REQUEST_URI and SCRIPT_FILENAME. The end result was that PHP would throw "No input file specified" errors inappropriately.