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Author Archives: Michael Fleming
Going dark…
Don’t be alarmed, I’ve not been compromised In support of the Open Internet / No Clean Feed initiatives fighting proposed mandatory Internet filtering here in Australia, I’m “turning the lights out” on my site until the 29th. The Great Australian … Continue reading
Keeping afloat in a binary ocean
Micro-rant: One of my pet peeves as a guy who likes to say his piece online is the number of really interesting and useful technologies / ideas completely ruined by lazy attempts at marketing by even lazier “salesmen” and marketers. … Continue reading
Posted in Just Livin', fedora
Tagged caffeine, fedora, socialmedia, spam, tea, twitter
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Another closed protocol failure…
It looks like the Microsoft Windows Live Messenger Service protocol servers are unresponsive tonight (http login still works) – I’ve got some friends from old workplaces and other Windows hold-outs using it, so I still have an active account. If … Continue reading
Posted in fedora, networking
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Getting a PowerDNS recursor up and going, fast!
This post is another one of my “quick and dirty” service tutorials This time, I’ll cover getting a recursive DNS service up and going, using the PowerDNS recursor package. Traditionally Red Hat/Fedora users would opt for BIND (with or without … Continue reading
Keeping it simple isn’t stupid
GeoIP / IPv6 As an IPv6 enthusiast/proponent/fanboy I was really happy to see Maxmind finally put up a free-as-in-beer IPv6 GeoIP database[1]. Now to find some applications that will make good use of this data… (Don’t worry, I’ll pull it … Continue reading
How polite!
I’m testing the Prosody XMPP server package I’d mentioned some time back (I’ve worked with jabberd/jabberd2 and ejabberd, figured a new tinker toy was on the cards) and got this when trying to check the service status – as a … Continue reading
Just Plain Bad Service
I almost lost two of my domains this week – a registrar / hosting company that will not be named decided to close them off without any notice – no email, letter or even a phone call. 15 minutes in … Continue reading
Posted in Just Livin', Linux, fedora, networking
Tagged bloodyidiots, fedora, hosting, ipv6, teredo, wordpress
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New hosting arrangements
If you’re reading this (and not a “Page Cannot Be Displayed” or “Internal Server Error”) then I’ve successfully moved my site(s) to the new server. After years of hosting off my own gear, either at datacentres or literally in-house I’ve … Continue reading
Too Fscking Clever
If you have six discrete crontabs for a relatively small set of tasks instead of two (or even just one) you may be Too Fscking Clever. If your SQL statement has five or more JOINS in it, you may be … Continue reading
Things I thought I’d never see
If I hadn’t been present for these, I’d probably call myself a bullspit artist. But I swear on a stack of $documents I was there and my experiences are 100% true. Firstly, I thought I’d never ever see a web … Continue reading
Posted in Just Livin', Linux, fedora
Tagged fedora, microsoft, opensource, technical
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