Dennis Richie *1941 – ✝2011

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The godfather of C and Unix died.

Thanks for all you left.

“Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius – or at any rate a programmer – to understand and appreciate the simplicity.”

“The greatest danger to good computer science research today may be excessive relevance. If we can keep alive enough openess to new ideas, enough freedom of communication, enough patience to allow the novel to prosper, it will remain possible for a future Ken Thompson to find a little-used Cray/1 computer and fashion a system as creative, and as influential, as Unix.”

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DIY: Location mapping Part 1 – Getting the location data

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Location based services needs to be switched on

Location based services needs to be switched on

Inspired by the question in the http://fanbóys.org/ podcast, I will write down, what I have up and running for over two years now.

Goal: Have a background method running, which collects your location during the day and displays it on a map and has some export functionality.

Ingredients: An Apple iPhone, an Apple ID, activated Find My iPhone, a LAMP system and additional Google Maps. Continue reading →

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How to setup nginx varnish apache on a CentOS

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This small script does install all necessary parts to get nginx, varnish and apache running on your CentOS:

yum install screen sysstat net-snmp htop
rpm --nosignature -i http://repo.varnish-cache.org/redhat/el5/noarch/varnish-release-2.1-2.noarch.rpm
yum install varnish
wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
yum install nginx
chkconfig varnish on
chkconfig httpd on
chkconfig nginx on
vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
vi /etc/nginx/conf.d/virtual.conf
vi /etc/varnish/default.vcl
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

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