System Administration on Luis Tineo

Connect to a wireless network through the command line

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:21:00 -0400

Sometimes you decide that you don’t want to use any GUI to connect to your wireless network, especially when it doesn’t seem to work.

One of the main benefits of Linux and any other Unix based operating system is its ability to empower users to do things on their own. So tonight when the latest Ubuntu updates broke my laptop’s wireless, I decided to write a little script to fix it.

Dirt cheap way to make magento fly

Fri, 27 Jul 2012 16:47:00 -0400

There are several ways to accomplish the same task and some are more elegant than others.

This one makes any Magento community edition fly and is cheap and quick (read no Magento compliant - because it modifies the templates)

In other words while this trick can help you boost your Magento store server response I am not too proud of it.

Why is that a big deal? I am not a huge fan or changing templates, even if they are “allowed”.

PHP offloading for better performance

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 22:19:00 -0400

So you recently launched your PHP application (read Magento) just to realize that it is really slow even though you have state of the art hardware, software and it is configured to kick ass. You decided to install varnish to help full page caching and your CDN, which it only has gzipped merged and minified assets, to serve content faster now your site seems to be flying but New Relic still reveals so many bottlenecks specially for the fillers you needed to keep some dynamic content rocking.