Since I left Morocco in 2004, I started training at the gym about 2/3 times a week (2 hours sessions). Although I was working out, my diet was getting worse and worse, and it [fast (junk) food and sugar everywhere ] did increase my body fat. I started to accumulate fat in the belly region […]
Author: Yassine Haddioui
Passwords and security in general
We have seen many websites having their databases with sensitive information like passwords leaked. Recently, we heard LinkedIn having troubles, I also remember GOMTV asking their customers to change their passwords. Anyway, I had to change all my passwords twice since fall 2011. The first big mistake I realized is that I use the same email/password […]
FastCGI 500 Internal Server Error while uploading files bigger then 100kb
Solution for (media temple) dv 4.0 : The problem is that the request length is limited to 128Kb by default when using FastCGI. In order to solve the problem, it’s easy, but you need root access to the server running apache. Edit file : /etc/httpd/conf.d/fcgid.conf Add Line (set 32MB limit) : MaxRequestLen 32000000 Save. Restart […]
Website Speed Optimization
I finally decided to change (again) the hosting service I was using for my blog. I noticed that my website was really too slow and even for development purposes I wasn’t able to test and refresh quickly enough to not lose patience. So my roommate and I decided to try Media Temple and their VPS […]