by R.I. Pienaar | Mar 31, 2004 | Front Page
I have had many conversations with people who believe that Apache 2.0 is a good server to run PHP under and never had enough ammunition to answer back at them. Well now thanks to Simon Willison I have it:
I finally found the answer today in this comment buried on Slashdot. It seems that one of the key features of Apache 2 is the new threaded worker module which uses threads to serve more requests more efficiently than 1.3’s multi-process based server. While the core Zend engine of PHP is thread-safe many of the critical libraries that PHP relies on for its advanced functionality (image processing, database connectivity and so forth) are not, and are unlikely to become so any time in the future. In a threaded environment PHP is likely to suffer from all kinds of unpredictable bugs. Apache 2 can be run in traditional 1.3-style prefork mode but doing so greatly reduces its advantages over 1.3. Combined with the lack of heavy duty testing on Apache 2 and the fact that the 1.3 series will continue to be supported for a long time to come it’s clear why PHP team are unwilling to recommend PHP and Apache 2 in a production environment.
This makes me wonder about all these so called enterprise ready Linux Distro’s that ship PHP in Apache 2.0 as a stable solution.
by R.I. Pienaar | Mar 26, 2004 | Front Page
Hooray for Microsoft, seems the much loved MS Word password protection is pretty lame (it’s not like anyone would trust this would they? The mind boggles)
Example 1
1) Open MS Word with a new/blank page
2) Now select “Insert” >> “File” >> browse for your password protected doc select “Insert” & “Insert” password protected doc into your new/blank doc
3) Now select “Tools” & Whey hey, voila, there’s no longer an “Unprotect document” … password vanished …
Read the full sad story here
by R.I. Pienaar | Mar 22, 2004 | Front Page
Today I clocked up 3 000 hits by actual browsers on my PPhlogger. It has been just under 3 months since I got 1 000 hits on the 7th of January 2004 which shows a good growth curve.
The lucky 3 000’th visitor was someone looking for Nikon D70 information.
by R.I. Pienaar | Mar 22, 2004 | Photography
Today I finally received my Nikon D70. There is an absolute frenzy in London as anyone who has any stock have been flooded with calls about it.
I had one booked at a shop who was wanting ยฃ950 inc for it, but then another got stock before the first shop did. They were selling it for ยฃ869 and had 9, 8 was on pre-order so I got the last one.
Now that they are also out of stock they put the price up to ยฃ999 so that’s a nice big bit of inflation there ๐
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by R.I. Pienaar | Mar 16, 2004 | Photography
A new issue of 28mm has become available after a few months of absence, this issue contains one gallery entitled ARKHEE by Eolo Perfido that is absolutely stunning.
28mm showcases work by amateur and professional photographers and comes out when enough material has been submitted.
