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Ever wondered where internet (and general telecommunications) cables were laid out in the ocean? This map, available on Level3 website, could help you out.

In the category of little scripts that can make your life easier when managing huge Chamilo portals, this is a little one that creates one tasks-folder called "ALP" for the "Assignments" (work) tool in each active course for a portal where you have thousands of sessions, with one course per session. The script works for version 1.9.8 of Chamilo, but might need some adaptations to run on an older version, in particular considering the addDir() function from the main/work/work.lib.php library which was created there recently. You should put the file into any "one-level" directory under the Cha

Just as an internal note, if you get the following error trying to pull or push to a git repo: "Agent admitted failure to sign using the key" Your issue might be due to simply not having an identity defined in SSH. Simply use the "ssh-add" command to fix it.

Great article from http://www.linux4beginners.info/node/increase-max-connections-mysql-without-restart In short, to update the setting: select @@max_connections; set global max_connections = 200; select @@max_connections; Done.

This guide is written specifically to cover a lack of quality documentation for the installation procedure of an OpenMeetings 2.2 server on a Debian Wheezy box. It will be based on the manual available already for this procedure (but relatively badly structured and written in a rather improvable English), by Alvaro Bustos with the help of Federico Christian Tomasczik. Thanks to both of them. My manual is mostly a rewrite of the information in their guide, hopefully with enough precision to allow someone to script it.

Working with Git is... complex.

While reading about Doctrine's cache mechanism (which applies to other stuff than database queries, by the way), my eye was caught by a little message at the end (last section) about cache slams. I have used cache mechanisms extensively over the last few years, but (maybe luckily) never happened to witness a "cache slam". There's a link to a blog (by an unnamed author) that explains that. To make it short, you can have race conditions in APC (and

Did you know...? As a "take away" information taken from this post https://gist.github.com/nikic/6699370 (by famous PHP core developer @nikita_ppv), it appears like the @ sign in PHP (used to "hide" errors, as the "error-suppression operator" it is) also disables the "compiled variables" optimization (OpCode caching).

Using a single server for multiple virtual hosts is something that comes naturally nowadays for any web server sysadmin. Using SSL certificates is also common (particularly so since the infamous Blacksheep extension for Firefox as published a few years back). However, the mixing of SSL and virtual hosts might not be as easy as you might think.

If you wanted to find a good way to record good quality audio and decided to buy a Behringer C-1U (U meaning USB connector), then connected it on your Ubuntu (or other Linux distribution) only to find that the sound recording level was so low you could barely hear it, then you're almost like me. I mean, unless you have found a way to fix it, in which case you're exactly like me!