2015 - Too many bits, too little Bytes

Radmin on Mac OSX

Tiago Ferreira November 28, 2015 November 28, 2015 sysadminLeave a comment

It’s been literally years since I (and others) requested Radmin to add Mac OSX to the list of operative systems supported by the client version of Radmin Remote control. Actually one can actually see posts requesting this feature back in 2005. So much for listening to user’s requests…. … Well, enough is enough and it’s time to leave the Windows virtual machine, and use Radmin on Mac OSX through Wine and all it’s native beauty. It take a number of hours, but at the end it’s well worth the wait. Install Macports This step is only necessary if you don’t already …

Using Memcached on QNAP QTS 4.1.x

Tiago Ferreira April 23, 2015 April 23, 2015 Memcached / QNAP / sysadminLeave a comment

EDIT: For QTS 4.2 onwards use this guide which includes the right package. For too long I’ve been struggling against my Semantic Mediawiki performance running on a QNAP machine. Pages were taking 10+ seconds be generated and new pages could take around 30s. Although those were certainly not the most simple of wikis, judging for the number of semantic properties and templates associated, those times were simply unacceptable, even for an Atom based hardware. After trying to improve QNAP’s Mysql performance, and upgrading to the latest available php 5.5 on QNAP (which already supports OPCache by default), all without …