Let's bomb Texas! They have oil too!

I was exploring my old files and I found a screenshot I've made in 2003 off a description of an emule server ....


Sorry, I wouldn't keep it back ;-)


Enjoy! ;-)

Torturing Apache for Dummies: .htaccess

The usage of .htaccess files is totally overrated these days, it is often used for things it's orginally not intended for, like complex RewriteCond and RewriteRule sets.
In this article I will show you how not to use a .htaccess, with some benchmarking and what will happen to a strong webserver when it has to process a large .htaccess file.

How to put a website in maintenance mode, for anyone else, except yourself?

Hello everyone,

on wednesday I had the task to upload a major update to one of our companies projects.

My first idea was to disable the system by adding something like the below to the 'index.php' files:

include('include/template/fricking_maintenance.html');
die();

Not such a good idea if you have to test the stuff, because no one, including yourself can access the stuff.
So ... what now? After a short break I got the simple, but stunnig idea. ;-)