Using url rewrite engine to serve default avatar to avoid checking for file in PHP

One of the great features of Apache is URL Rewrite. It has helped me to do so many different tasks that I had to blog about this and share the love. One of the things I used it for recently was to provide a solution for a simple problem which was being checked [...]

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Playstation 3 or Nintendo Wii? Who is to judge what is better or worse?

There is so much controversy about which console is better between the two and which is going to do better then the other. Both Playstation 3 and Nintendo Wii have their own pros and cons, just like any other console out there. It basically comes down to who can afford what and what [...]

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MySQL database backup file compression: gzip vs bzip2

In one of my previous posts: MySQL backups, I talked about using a script for automating backups. I show that we can use gzip to compress backup file to compress and save. Since then, our backup file has been growing meg or two a day which is causing our backup files to get [...]

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Playstation 3 hardware used to find cure for diseases.

The news of Sony pushing for use of its Playstation 3 hardware was no surprise to me. There has been many talks about using Playstation 3’s power to do things in medical world but this is more of a official news. All of us who know what Playstation 3 is about know that it [...]

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Linux time – Daylight saving time (DST)

Its that time of the year again when time changes and we have to make sure our servers are using the right zone with right time. Out of many servers I admin, I found 3 servers which had wrong time displaying. All of them had one thing in common, Fedora Core 4. [...]

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