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How to achieve 500K requests per second on my webserver?view story

http://serverfault.com – I recently gifted myself a new dedicated server and I am trying to squeeze maximum performance out of it, for fun and learning. I am trying to achieve maximum possible requests per second this server can handle and aiming for 500K requests/sec as mentioned here - http://lowlatencyweb.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/500000-requestssec-modern-... Server Details Intel® Xeon® E3-1270 (HowTos)

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libcvd install problemview story

http://www.unix.com – Hi I'm trying to install libcvd libraries (running Ubuntu 10.10) but get errors, I guesss its saying I miss dc1394v1 and ffmpeg. Altough when looking in synaptic manager I appear to have ffmpeg and libdc1394 (version 2). (HowTos)

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Mod_pagespeed with Zend Framework gives 404view story

http://serverfault.com – I am expiering some problems with the Google's Apache mod_pagespeed module to combine css, js, etc. During the last months I developed a new version of our software based on Zend Framework. I just installed mod_pagespeed and it doesn't seem to work. I run Ubuntu Server 11.04 and the latest mod_pagespeed module. (HowTos)

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Shotwell is an image organizer designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop environment.view story

http://linuxlandit.blogspot.com – Shotwell is an image organizer designed to provide personal photo management for the GNOME desktop environment. In 2010 it replaced F-Spot as the standard image tool for several GNOME-based Linux distributions, including Fedora in version 13 and Ubuntu in its 10.10 Maverick Meerkat release. Shotwell can import photos and videos from a digital camera directly. (HowTos)

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php 5.4 configure edit library required by readlineview story

http://serverfault.com – Trying to compile PHP 5.4, and for some reason cannot solve this problem: checking for libedit readline replacement... yes checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no checking for readline in -ledit... (HowTos)

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Use Imagemagick to add watermark to imagesview story

http://www.linuxandlife.com – There are obviously many different methods to create watermark for an image. However, in this article, I will show how to do the task without using any GUI application. Everything will totally be done in the terminal with the help of imagemagick. I use one of my favorite images, the pic of Linus Torvalds raising his middle finger, as the example. (Distributions)

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How to get CR2 (Canon raw) support for XLoadImage?view story

http://unix.stackexchange.com – I've been looking for a light-weight image viewer to replace gThumb now that I'm not running Gnome anymore, and found XLoadImage. (HowTos)

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RPhoto is a small piece of software to enhance your digital pictures by easy operations in a quick and handy user interfaceview story

http://linuxlandit.blogspot.com – RPhoto is a small piece of software to enhance your digital pictures by easy operations in a quick and handy user interface : Crop photos while keeping the 4:3 ratio (or whatever ratio you would prefer), without any loss of quality Adjust inclinaison of photos taken not perfectly horizontally. (HowTos)

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Nginx static files exclude one or some file extensionsview story

http://serverfault.com – I'm serving up a static site via nginx. location ~* \.(avi|bin|bmp|dmg|doc|docx|dpkg|exe|flv|gif|htm|html|ico|ics|img|jpeg|jpg|m2a|m2v|mov|mp3|mp4|mpeg|mpg|msi|pdf|pkg|png|ppt|pptx|ps|rar|rss|rtf|swf|tif|tiff|txt|wmv|xhtml|xls|xml|zip)$ { root /var/www/html1; access_log off; expires 1d; } And my goal is to exclude requests like http://connect1.webinar.ru/converte (HowTos)

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Clean desktop filesview story

http://crunchbanglinux.org – This is very uglyand 4 times the same thing? What do they do anyways?This is how it should look like:Because the wine-developers seem to be busy with more important things I threw together a little python script that will do the job. It will not only fix Wine's .desktop entries, but also merge duplicate ones.I can't guarantee that this script will work. (HowTos)