Is your Gmail session encrypted? No? You’re in trouble!

OK, this is a bigger problem than it may sound or look. If you are one of those many who do not use a secure (encrypted) session (SSL, that is) to not only authenticate to but read and write your emails on Gmail, you are in trouble. At the time of writing, I suspect Mike [...]

Independence Day

On the eve of Pakistan’s 61st Independence Day, it rained thoroughly throughout the city — perhaps throughout the country. I walked out late in the morning over the wet asphalt on a road that was rebuilt a few months ago to the spot where one of our cars was parked. Dad is in [...]

Benchmarking Apache web server(s)

If you are not a systems administrator, you likely may never need to benchmark individual servers on which your applications are running. But if you are, odds are good that you already identify with the importance of knowing which parts of a system under your control are under-performing, causing bottlenecks, and plainly not coping [...]