Tech Messages | 2008-02-04

A special extended edition of Tech Messages for 2008-02-02 through 2008-02-04:

• What is the coolest thing you can do using Linux that you can’t do with Windows or on a Mac?
  This is pretty fun and popular with The Digg.
• Time For A Grown-Up Server: Rails, Mongrel, Apache, Capistrano and You | Archives | codablog | Coda Hale
  Walk-through to help you get your Ruby on Rails application up and running as soon as possible.
• YARB: How 7 Mongrels Handled a 550k Pageview Digging
  Here’s another example of Rails taking a beating and still holding up. Shanti believes Rails 2.0 is part of the reason for the success.
• Cisco IOS hints and tricks: Configure DNS servers through IPCP
  This is a new site I’ve just discovered, and this post regarding using PPP to configure DNS shows a lot of promise for the rest of the site.