Author Archives: Jacob Allred

Linux Mint Tips and Tricks

By Jacob Allred | Published: August 21, 2010
I use Linux Mint, based on Ubuntu, almost exclusively. Here are a few tips and tricks I’ve picked up along the way: To get a panel from one monitor to the other, hold down alt while dragging the panel with the mouse. To connect to a Windows using remote desktop, use the Terminal Server Client [...]
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Fixing the digitizer on a Samsung Rogue

By Jacob Allred | Published: August 18, 2010
My touch screen on my wife’s Samsung Rogue U960 recently stopped working. There were no cracks or other visible damage, but it didn’t recognize touches on the left third of the screen. Because the phone was designed to be used almost exclusively by touching the screen, this made the phone pretty much useless for anything [...]
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Zend Alternatives

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 29, 2010
When most people think of PHP they think Zend, but did you know that Zend isn’t the only company that makes a PHP engine? There are many competing compilers and interpreters for PHP, each with their own slightly different take on the PHP language. Facebook’s HipHop HipHop takes normal PHP code and transforms it into [...]
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Fixing Git

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 26, 2010
I use git as my version control system for all of my sites. It helps to reduce disk usage by occasionally running git gc. Last night when I went to run git gc on one of my sites, I received a message I had never seen before telling me that my git repo was corrupt. [...]
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DoS using a single client

By Jacob Allred | Published: July 23, 2010
Have you ever heard of Slowloris? It has been around for a little over a year, but fortunately I have never had the “pleasure” of dealing with it. This short Perl script (less than 350 lines of actual code) is capable of turning your lowly desktop computer into a server killing monster. Traditional denial of [...]
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