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How to increase security by marking cookies as ‘secure’ in Apache
# Fix the cookie path and secure it Header edit Set-Cookie "^(.*)" $1;Secure
via xMatters Community: How to increase security by marking cookies as ‘secure’.
UK Government Betrayal of Open Standards Confirmed – Open Enterprise
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Linux 3.2 – Linux Kernel Newbies
Summary: This release includes support for Ext4 block sizes bigger than 4KB and up to 1MB, which improve performance with big files; btrfs has been updated with faster scrubbing, automatic backup of critical filesystem metadata and tools for manual inspection of the filesystems; the process scheduler has added support to set upper limits of CPU time; the desktop reponsiveness in presence of heavy writes has been improved, TCP has been updated to include an algorithm which speeds up the recovery of the connection after lost packets; the profiling tool "perf top" has added support for live inspection of tasks and libraries and see the annotated assembly code; the Device Mapper has added support for ‘thin provisioning’ of storage, and a new architeture has been added: the Hexagon DSP processor from Qualcomm. Other drivers and small improvements and fixes are also available in this release.
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ImperialViolet – Forward secrecy for Google HTTPS
…the preferred cipher suite for most Google HTTPS servers is ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA. If you have a client that supports it, you’ll be using that ciphersuite. Chrome and Firefox, at least, support it…
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AlternativeTo – Alternatives To The Applications You Want To Replace
AlternativeTo is a new approach to finding good software. Tell us what application you want to replace and we give you great alternatives, based on user recommendations.
Jolokia
Jolokia is a JMX-HTTP bridge giving an alternative to JSR-160 connectors. It is an agent based approach with support for many platforms. In addition to basic JMX operations it enhances JMX remoting with unique features like bulk requests and fine grained security policies.
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one million tcp sessions
Over the past few months we have been making a lot of improvements to our servers to increase the performance, uptime and scalability. Today we have tuned some knobs, shifted some traffic around and achieved 1 million established tcp sessions on a single machine (and with memory and cpu to spare!)
via ONE MILLION!.
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Dash, Google’s Alternative to JavaScript
An internal Google document from October 2010 provides some information about Google’s strategy for the future of JavaScript. Google will continue to work on improving JavaScript and adding new features to ECMAScript Harmony, but it will also develop a new language called Dash that will try to solve JavaScript’s problems, while offering better performance, the ability “to be more easily tooled for large-scale projects” and better security features.