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Real social value is experienced when we physically get together, when we pay real attention to each other, and when we care and help each other, not when we use Facebook, X/Twitter, Slack, Discord, YouTube or something else! https://unixdigest.com/articles/social-networking-is-a-poor-substitute-to-real-human-interaction.html

Too much commenting makes the code difficult to navigate. Experienced programmers try to create code that is self-explaining. Good code is almost always self-explaining. https://unixdigest.com/articles/code-comments-are-good-right-well-not-if-there-are-too-many.html

This is a benchmark test of the performance of MySQL Cache. The test was performed on an Intel P4 1.7 Ghz with 1036028 kB of memory over a private LAN. The server runs MySQL 5.0.51a and PHP 5.3.3 on a standard Debian installation. Between each change of settings all related processes was restarted. Since Debian Squeeze the MySQL Cache is enabled by default. https://unixdigest.com/articles/benchmark-2-mysql-cache.html

This is a benchmark test of the loading speed of dynamic pages vs. static pages vs. pages stored in Memchached using PHP. The test was performed on an Intel P4 1.7 Ghz with 1036028 kB of memory over a privat LAN. The server runs MySQL 5.0.51a and PHP 5.3.3 on a standard Debian installation. Between each change of settings all related processes was restarted. https://unixdigest.com/articles/benchmark-1-dynamic-pages-vs-static-pages-vs-memcached.html

This is a benchmark test of the performance of PHP with and without APC (Alternative PHP Cache). The test was performed on an Intel P4 1.7 Ghz with 1036028 kB of memory over a private LAN. The server runs PHP 5.3.3 on a standard Debian installation. Between each change of settings all related processes was restarted. https://unixdigest.com/articles/benchmark-3-the-alternative-php-cache-apc.html

https://unixdigest.com/articles/benchmark-4-notes-about-caching-and-benchmarking.html

This tutorial explains how you can enforce a strong password for users on Debian. https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/enforce-strong-passwords-in-debian.html

https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/unloading-of-modules-at-boot-time-in-debian.html

This tutorial was written when it was only possible to view videos on YouTube via Flash, however the tutorial is still useful if you need to download videos from YouTube, or some other video service, in an easily manner and watch them on your favorite video player. https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/an-alternative-way-to-play-youtube-videos-without-using-flash.html

https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/how-to-create-a-new-and-empty-branch-in-git.html