Vasile Cristescu

Romania joins the fight !

Vasile Cristescu — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:42:46 +0000

About .. updates

Vasile Cristescu — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:23:35 +0000

Apache + Nginx + Varnish

Vasile Cristescu — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:58:34 +0000

If you think your website is low, most probably you’re right. If you’re using Apache (through Cpanel) like I do the solution is to use Nginx as a reverse proxy. A even better solution is to add varnish in front and your site will become fast or at lease faster than before. Assuming Apache is [...]

What’s cooking for FreeBSD 9?

Vasile Cristescu — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:31:25 +0000

This page will document changes that will be included in FreeBSD 9, including those that might end up being committed to earlier branches. In other words, it describes differences between 8.0 and 9.0, no matter what happens to the versions in between.

Free Wireless everywhere

Vasile Cristescu — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:06:43 +0000

You’re sitting in an airport or in a cafe, and people want your money for Internet access. They do allow ICMP traffic, though (i.e., you can ping machines on the Internet). Or you’ve been in a restaurant that has a wireless but when you ask for the password they say it’s only for their pda’s? [...]

FreeBSD file server upgrade (zfs pools)

Vasile Cristescu — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 11:22:40 +0000

20100915: A new version of ZFS (version 15) has been merged. This version uses a python library for the following subcommands: zfs allow, zfs unallow, zfs groupspace, zfs userspace. For full functionality of these commands the following port must be installed: sysutils/py-zfs So, the upgrade is a MUST ! ( cvsup , builworld, etc etc [...]

Torrentflux on a FreeBSD box.

Vasile Cristescu — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:41:12 +0000

Sometimes while I’m at work I remember I need to download certain things at home (especially torrents) and I don’t wanna wait until I get home because I usually forget (and remember again the next day at work .. and so on) . So, after playing a little bit with FreeNAS (and see it has [...]