Need a swap file on a Virtual Machine that didn’t come with one? Don’t care about the size, name or location? This is for you… I use lots of tiny virtual servers for development and testing and on most hosting… Read More
Shrink QEMU/QCOW2 Images
Needed to shrink a full directory of QEMU QCOW2 images today that had grown over time with snapshots and general use. While there is information around on the web about it, the focus is on single images and the code… Read More
NGINX and Mono Concurrency
I stumbled upon a question about fastcgi-mono-server concurrency on Server Fault and thought I’d do some digging around. Initial checks using a couple of open tabs in the browser and Firebug seemed like there was some level of blocking, and… Read More
ASP.NET MVC on Ubuntu with NGINX
We’ve just published an early working version of an on-line service created by NewRedo, however, although written in ASP.NET MVC 2, it’s not running on a Microsoft server. Instead we’re running on Ubuntu 11.10 using the NGINX web server. First,… Read More