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The Test Of Time: 7 Years & Counting…
May 17th
Today I woke up and was in a weird mood, I started to take stock of some thing while at the same time cleaning out the rfxn.com projects and downloads repo (thats a whole other story in itself). In doing so, I realized just how long I have been doing this, it sometimes gets past me just how much time has gone by since my first projects went up.
In November of 2002 I put out the first public version of System Integrity Monitor over at the then rackshack community forums, at a time when Cobalt Raq’s and bargain basement More >
Better Late Than Never: Linux Malware Detect 1.3
May 12th
Today I have released Linux Malware Detect (LMD) 1.3, the first public stable release of my malware detection tool. The documentation is a little thin but the details are on the project page and the README file should fill you in on anything you need to know, otherwise you can post a comment on the bottom of the project page and I will assist where possible. Input on feature ideas, bugs and malware data is always welcome, see the –help options on LMD for the checkout feature to upload malware data to rfxn.com.
In October I detailed the concepts behind the More >
Nginx: Caching Proxy
May 6th
Recently I started to tackle a load problem on one of my personal sites, the issue was that of a poorly written but exceedingly MySQL heavy application and the load it would induce on the SQL server when 400-500 people were hammering the site at once. Further compounding this was Apache’s horrible ability to gracefully handle excessive requests on object heavy pages (i.e: images). This left me with a site that was almost unusable during peak hours — or worse — would crash the MySQL server and take Apache with it by frenzied F5ing from users.
I went through all the More >
The Way Forward
Oct 18th
It is hard to believe the year is almost done and gone already, it has been busy for me with some life drama earlier in the year then a couple of larger projects keeping me on my toes since then.
During the last few weeks I have taken the time to draft a solid road map for the projects and where I would like them to be by this time next year. The road map evolved in very organic fashion with me jotting down a few points here and there every day, now it is pretty long but very constructive. It More >
