PHP Template Engine | Smarty

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PHP Template Engine | Smarty.

Crash course here.

Smarty also has built-in caching capabilities to help speed up the page rendering. A copy of the template output is stored in a text file, then that is displayed upon subsequent calls to the request instead of dynamically rendering the page each time. This can speedup page rendering substantially, especially if there is a lot of processing involved to create the page such as database calls and variable assignments. You can also leave parts of a page dynamic just by marking them as nocache.

In-Flight Wi-Fi Company Gogo Files For $100 Million IPO

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Since Gogo launched in-flight Wi-Fi connectivity in 2008, the company has provided more than 15 million wi-fi sessions to more than 4.4 million registered unique users. Currently, Gogo has contracts to add wi-fi to another 525 planes. Gogo-equipped planes represent approximately 42% of the company’s revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2011. The company’s earliest contract, which last for ten years, expires in 2018.

via In-Flight Wi-Fi Company Gogo Files For $100 Million IPO | TechCrunch.

How SOPA Will Destroy The Internet

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I finally got around to reading the text of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) today. While the ostensible intentions are to combat online piracy and the sale of counterfeit goods, the bad news is that the legislation contains elements which basically puts every single domain registered under generic TLDs under the authority of the United States Attorney General.

via How SOPA Will Destroy The Internet » blog.easydns.org – Happenings and observations.

How SOPA’s ‘circumvention’ ban could put a target on Tor

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How SOPA’s ‘circumvention’ ban could put a target on Tor | Privacy Inc. – CNET News.

“It looks like SOPA would outlaw Tor,” says Markham Erickson, an attorney with Holch & Erickson LLP who runs NetCoalition. The trade association opposes SOPA and counts Amazon.com, eBay, Google, and Yahoo among its members.

It will be interesting what plans they have to enforce this.

FCC green lights first white space broadband device

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FCC green lights first white space broadband device

The authorized model in question is the KTS Agility Data Radio. “The ADR is a software-defined radio that offers unparalleled flexibility,” KTS literature promises. “It can access more spectrum and support more throughput than any radio product on the market today.”

Agility Data Radio
Agility Data Radio
KTS Wireless

The black 3.5 x 5.0 x1.4-inch machine weighs almost three quarters of a pound, can take on channel sizes up to 5MHz, and services data rates up to 4Mbps.

Ostiary

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If you leave such programs running all the time, you take the risk that someone is going to use an exploit on you before you have a chance to apply a patch. For some purposes, this is an acceptable – even necessary – tradeoff, but it would be nice to enable them only when actually needed, to minimize the risk. And for other purposes, ssh et. al. are overkill. Perhaps you only really need to remotely initiate a limited set of operations. In this case, you don’t need a shell prompt, just a way to securely kick off scripts from elsewhere.Enter ‘Ostiary’. It is designed to allow you to run a fixed set of commands remotely, without giving everyone else access to the same commands. It is designed to do exactly and only what is necessary for this, and no more. The only argument given to the command is the IP address of the client, and only if the authentication is successful.

via Ostiary.