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image from www.memcached.org Based on their official website memcached is defined as: Free & open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load. Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering. Memcached is simple yet powerful. Its simple design promotes quick deployment, ease of development, and solves many [...]

One of the server I am using is running ubuntu. I am installing memcached on the server and every time I restart the web server I always have the error “Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName”. If you are having the same error then this post is for you. To solve the problem this is how I solved the problem. Open the cli and use the command to edit apache’s config file: [...]

Here is a quick look of the first ubuntu powered TV. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post

One trick to save more time in opening your mostly visited folder is to add it on Nautilus file manager/browser. As shown in the image, I added my www folder to nautilus which is my mostly opened folder. To do this simple trick just follow the steps bellow: Open the folder you want to add to nautilus Press ctrl + D That is it! Hope it helps. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share [...]

I switched my ubuntu Oneiric to bactrack 5 Gnome and try out the new tools I wanted to use. Lately I thought everything will be fine out of the box but noticed that some of the tools I use and explored are not working well. I am using Aspire 4736 and installed backtrack 5 Gnome 64bit. After the installation I had a lot of things to fix and would want to fix them one by one. The first thing I [...]

One of the things I find hard in developing a web application is using a library for sending email such as PHPMailer. I find it hard when used to send emails. Another thing I find hard is when sending emails in a localhost webserver. It would also cost me more and would take much time in setting up my own mail server. PHP’s mail function is also very useless in such testing ground. If you are using a gmail account [...]

Gpick is an advanced color picker written in C++ using GTK+ toolkit. This application is an alternative for window’s colorpic. One feature I like about this application is the same feature I found on window’s colorpic which shows a magnifier of the area where you want to capture the color. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post