TL;DR version: the 4.1 version of VirtualBox (or possibly more correctly, the VirtualBoxAdditions that provide the vboxfs) makes it impossible for Apache to correctly do its Kernel hand off, known as EnableSendfile. If you're experiencing problems with files that are stored on a vboxfs share on
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I've been an entrepreneur for over a decade, and I've been working in tech that entire time. But just this last week, I made the move. I now live in Silicon Valley. Why do it, what does it mean for my life, my businesses and my
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Just a quick note to let you know that we're kicking off a regular Silicon Beach Drinks here in Wollongong. After kick-starting the tech entrepreneur scene three years ago, and playing a massive part in bringing together a really strong community, we thought we'd have our
Introduction Today is one of the days you'll remember for the rest of your life. It might be because you feel proud - it is the culmination of thousands of hours work and study. It might be because you feel relieved - no more cramming for exams and
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Over the last couple of years, I've been getting increasingly concerned about the future of our city. Leaving aside the rot exposed through the ICAC investigation, I've been mostly worried the future of the city from an economic perspective. Are we going to be a place
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Aside from my work as an entrepreneur with Internetrix and Hiive Systems, I'm also pretty active in my community as a board member of Regional Development Australia (Illawarra). The Board of our RDA is made up of some pretty impressive people from lots of walks of life, leaders
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A quick one that hopefully my geeky friends, followers and random Google searchers will appreciate - a way to restart all services being managed by the popular Daemontool's supervise package on Linux. We use supervise extensively for running our various custom daemons that power AffinityLive, and because we&
Amazingly, it has been almost 6 months since I last wrote a blog post. There's probably been a million things go through my mind that I've thought about blogging about, of which 0.1% would have been worth sharing, but it is still a bit of
With the first StartMate applications closing in a few weeks, a few of the organisers and mentors are holding an information session this Friday evening in Sydney. If you're thinking about applying to Australia's first Y-Combinator type startup program, but you're not sure whether
Since announcing StartMate - and its list of investors and mentors - back in August, those of us working on the project, particularly Niki Scevak, have been working hard on getting all the scaffolding of this new venture in place. And while there's a lot of boring bits
A campaign, backed by donations from members of the Fix the Princes Hwy at Heathcote Facebook group, has gone live this morning, with a large display sign installed at Heathcote to let some of the 25,000 people who use the Princes Hwy a day what the so-called Minister for
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My Pop passed away earlier this week. While very sad for all of us, it wasn't tragic, as he'd been going down hill a fair bit over the last couple of months - his heart had finally had enough, and just quietly, I think he had