MbM - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:Every time he speaks I just want to shoot him (Score 3, Interesting) 747

by MbM on Monday March 23 2009, @12:25PM (#27299747) Attached to: Richard Stallman Warns About Non-Free Web Apps

Take it with a grain of salt.

RMS intentionally confuses the terms free and open, because in his mind it isn't free until it's open; to him, free means freedom. The classic example is always "free" as in "free beer" vs "free" as in "free speech"; same word, different meaning.

Comment: Re:They could have done better (Score 1) 392

by MbM on Wednesday October 08 2008, @03:41PM (#25304511) Attached to: Google's Obfuscated TCP

Interesting; it also has the advantage that with the port number included in the CNAME you could actually run multiple https servers -- something you can't do with port 443 since the cert is sent to the client before the hostname is established.

Logfiles Made Interesting with glTail 131

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday October 07 2007, @10:11AM
from the because-you-can dept.

Fudgie writes "My boss claimed it was pretty much impossible to create an entertaining way to visualize server traffic and events in a short time frame, so of course I had to prove him wrong. A weekend of neglecting my family produced a small ruby program which connects to your servers via SSH, grabs and parses data from Apaches access log and Ruby on Rails production log, and displays your traffic and statistics in real-time using a simple OpenGL interface (tested under Linux and Mac OS/X). It's a bit hard to explain over text, so please have a look at fudgie.org for an example movie, and more information."