http://www.maniacmartin.com/blog The life and viewpoint of Martin Smith Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:25:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Regular readers will know that I recently migrated to lighttpd from Apache 2, to try and enable my blog to handle traffic spikes better. Out of curiosity, I decided to benchmark the new setup. I used a dedicated server on a 100Mbit line at ovh, France to perform the tests on ... http://www.maniacmartin.com/blog/2008/08/09/benchmarking_wordpress_and_django/ After learning that my 256mb Debian Xen VPS died instantly after being reddited, I decided to take some action to prevent the same thing happening again. My blog is currently powered by Wordpress, so I enabled the wp-cache plugin that I had installed some time ago. It is however, one of ... http://www.maniacmartin.com/blog/2008/08/08/migrating-django-and-cherrypy-to-lighttpd/ webpwman is an online password manager that I wrote in CherryPy, that can import from KDE pwmanager CSV exports, and run behind an SSL-enabled webserver (which also prevents MITM attacks). It asks 3 security questions, which it randomly rotates on every correct login and asks for a master password which ... http://www.maniacmartin.com/blog/2008/08/08/webpwman-released/ I was checking mum's Google Analytics today, and happened to glance at my own: Sheesh. Where did all those people come from. Well, 191 of them came from reddit (probably in the same second) Focusing on reddit.com: (Note some hits from "/") On page 2 of the python subreddit, I found what might've been ... http://www.maniacmartin.com/blog/2008/08/07/moment-of-fame-on-reddit/ To all those people who told me I should switch my cycle ride's direction to 'John O'Groats to Lands End': Last time i checked, all edges of Britain were at sea level. http://www.maniacmartin.com/blog/2008/08/06/a-little-common-sense/ I was featured in this week's issue of the Market Rasen Mail, regarding my sponsored Land's End to John O'Groats Cycle ride. http://www.maniacmartin.com/blog/2008/08/06/im-famous/ Apparently, all the cool kids are blogging their shells' history. Cool, I thought, I'll do it too. But in zsh, the code they used only gets the history of the currently opened session, and I'd just closed all of mine, plus I use multiple shells in Yakuake. I edited it ... http://www.maniacmartin.com/blog/2008/08/05/command-history/ I recently started writing an online password manager. The basic idea is that it would ask 3 questions from a bank of questions, and then prompt for a decryption password and the name of a service of which to get a password. The service would run over SSL, and the ... http://www.maniacmartin.com/blog/2008/08/04/initial-thoughts-on-webpy-and-sqlobject/ This post is by no means up to the standard of the official Django 1.0 alpha release notes; it merely details what I had to do to get a Django 0.96 site working under Django 1.0 alpha. First, update your Django code. Mine's under svn, but svn up spewed an error, ... http://www.maniacmartin.com/blog/2008/07/30/upgrading-from-django-096-to-10-alpha/ I have recently embarked on writing a simple open-source BitTorrent private tracker and community website, as a single Django project. I felt compelled to do this after seeing the maze of PHP code behind other BitTorrent tracker/community sites, such as TBDev and xbtit. I want breeze to be simple yet functional, ... http://www.maniacmartin.com/blog/2008/07/30/introducing-breeze/