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http://www.alibabuy.com/
Cheap flight search, in French only, but seems to cover some airlines that SkyScanner didn't. Nathaniel found ultra cheap flight from Marrakesh to Marseille for example.
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http://www.symantec.com/connect/articles/getting-hang-iops
Outstanding article on hard disk performance, IOPS and predicting drive usage, RAID capacity, and so on.
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http://www.oocities.org/debbie_joiya/writing/w73.htm
Quotes from a stranger in a strange land, including Jubal Harshaw's speech on gratitude as a euphemism for resentment.
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http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php
Very handy tool that will tell you if gzip or deflate is enabled on a url or not.
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http://askubuntu.com/questions/64570/how-do-i-configure-the-screen-to-lock-when-i-close-the-lid
Script that locks the screen when the lid is closed on ubuntu 11.10 plus. Awesome.
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http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
A very, very, very verbose article on how to ask smart questions in IRC / etc. Great for sending to n00bs! :-)
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http://square.github.com/cube/
Cube is an open-source system for visualizing time series data, built on MongoDB, Node and D3.
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http://detectmobilebrowsers.com/
Simple open source regex to detect mobile browsers. Very cool, super useful. Free and open source. Yay!
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http://www.ubuntuka.com/rate-limit-for-apt-get-andor-aptitude/
Very useful tip on how to rate limit apt-get or aptitude. Upshot is for apt-get it's `sudo apt-get -o Acquire::http::Dl-limit=25k update`
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http://www.bigbluebutton.org/
Just glanced quickly, sounds very interesting. Combines over 14 projects to create an open source, cross platform web conferencing platform. Cool.
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http://www.maatkit.org/doc/mk-heartbeat.html
Simple script to monitor mysql replication delay. It updates a value on the master every second and checks how far behind the value is on the slave. Simple yet effective.
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http://www.elevatedcode.com/articles/2007/12/05/replication-monitoring-with-monit/
Clever approach to monitoring mysql replication with monit. Ruby script checks replication is running and then touches a file, monit in turn monitors that file's timestamp and if it gets out of date, sends an alert. Sort of like a dead man switch. Clever.
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http://kb.mozillazine.org/Dictionaries
How to install and un-install dictionaries in firefox. Trick is /usr/lib/firefox-VERSION/dictionaries/ (files can be extracted from the xpi).
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http://www.strangeloopnetworks.com/
In a similar vein to cloudflare / yottaa, strangeloop offer a performance enhancement service through a physical / cloud based appliance. It uses the standard techniques, js/css combining, sprites, cdn, tailoring to the browser, and so on. No pricing. :-(
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http://www.yottaa.com/
Similar to CloudFlare but more expensive ($30/mth no ssl, $130/mth with ssl) it accelerates web sites through the use of CDN, js/css combining, etc.
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https://www.cloudflare.com/
loudFlare is an automated CDN / content acceleration type service. It acts as a reverse proxy providing some sort of heuristic security scanning, logging of traffic, and an automatically configured CDN. $15 + $5/site/month.
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http://www.margi.marnet.net.mk/CA/certexport-mf.html
Converting pk12 / p12 files into pem files using openssl. `openssl pkcs12 -nocerts -in mycertificate.p12 -out ~user/.globus/userkey.pem` and `openssl pkcs12 -clcerts -nokeys -in mycertificate.p12 -out usercert.pem`
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/786035#answer-142961
How to get an SSL client certificate into Firefox on Android. Copy cert9.db and key4.db from phone's SD card Androiddataorg.mozilla.firefoxfilesmozillaprofile.default to dir. Then `pk12util -i file.p12 -d sql:dir`
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http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/securitymonkey/howto-securing-a-website-with-client-ssl-certificates-11500
A wonderful article on how to setup Client SSL authentication. Includes all the openssl commands and apache config variables.
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https://unixbhaskar.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/measure-website-response-time-through-curl/
Handy article on how to get the response times out of curl. The key is the --write-out / -w option.
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http://blitz.io/
Performance testing, monitoring, and some kind of fix-it service, mostly in private beta. Flashy, funky, cool, style design and chat with limited technical details.
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https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archivemirrors
Official list of Ubuntu mirrors including very useful information on how up to date they are and their available bandwidth.
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http://pleasanthacking.com/2012/01/02/making-ubuntu-11-10-and-12-04-behave-like-10-04/
Walk through on how to get Unity to look like pre-unity, whatever that means. Involves changes to several config files, installing gnome-fallback, might be worth it failing alternatives.
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http://www.onlinemeditationtimer.com/
Awesome, simple, beautiful meditation timer. Javascript based, great sounding bowl bells.
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https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html
A very useful SSL check utility which will support non standard port numbers. Useful for monit debugging on port 2812.
