Introduction This article provides information about the number of workers a typical nginx system administrator should setup. As per any web server, the tuning of the worker processes is a sort of voodoo art.Ask hundreds system administrators and you will get probably hundreds of different opinions. Before we go deep in the topic, let’s understand […]
In this simple guide I will explain how to create a virtual ram disk based on ext3 file system to be used for very fast I/O. This example is very useful though it has important limitations, for example: It does not allow big ram drives, as far as I know, the limit is 64 MB […]
(This article is rather old and was posted on another personal blog, I think it could help people anyway). Just as a side note, I stopped using Ubuntu since a while due to Unity. Now I work on Fedora 20 and Gnome 3, I love it. I have upgraded my laptop, a Lenovo T410 mounting […]
Introduction Since yesterday I have been playing around on the WII controller integration on my PATRIA 3D engine. This is required in order to have a fully working accelerometer support for our games testing since it is quite an effort to perform real testings on the smartphones especially when you are still in the middle […]
“This article was created on my old blog in 2012” Since the release of the first game on the Android Market I have faced the usual problems on the HW differences of the different Android devices on the market. I think this is the actual limitation of the Android platform, a lack in the HW […]
I am preparing the code I have to use for the Global Game Jam 2013 which will occur next week end, 25-27 of January 2013. The idea is to use my 3D Engine, PATRIA for the development of the game but I would like to avoid to share the last 2 years efforts with everyone […]
Let’s use an example, you need to pass a file to one of your friends…. but, you don’t have a web space and,you don’t have samba installed nor you are in the same network or, you don’t want to create an account for just on file transfer… but…. you have linux! WOW great. All you […]
By default on Ubuntu systems the root account is disabled. To run commands on console as root you have to use the sudo command in order to have root privileges on the required operation. For instance, you can edit the X11 configuration file using root credentials with the following command: sudo gedit X11/xorg.conf Sometimes, you […]
This simple article illustrates how to monitor the network throughput using some simple shell applications. Many times you might need to see what is the actual speed of your network connection or, more often, you just need network transfer rate info to know when a damn file transfer will complete. As usual, this article […]
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