Category Archives: fedora

Keeping afloat in a binary ocean

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Michael Fleming

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 →

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Another closed protocol failure…

Posted on August 19, 2009 by Michael Fleming

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 →

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Getting a PowerDNS recursor up and going, fast!

Posted on August 9, 2009 by Michael Fleming

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 →

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How polite!

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Michael Fleming

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 →

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Just Plain Bad Service

Posted on July 19, 2009 by Michael Fleming

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 →

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New hosting arrangements

Posted on July 13, 2009 by Michael Fleming

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 →

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Things I thought I’d never see

Posted on June 27, 2009 by Michael Fleming

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 →

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More of Michael’s Not So Quick Tips

Posted on June 21, 2009 by Michael Fleming

Migration I migrated my filesystems to ext4 (I’ve come from an all0ext3 F10 to F11 upgrade, FWIW) and just like to mention that if you’re migrating your root filesystem you might want to regenerate your initrd via mkinitrd; the stock … Continue reading →

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Presto, We Have No Gallery!

Posted on June 18, 2009 by Michael Fleming

Fedora / Linux stuff: For those users of my package set, you can now use yum-presto to grab deltarpms of my packages for Fedora 10 and 11. This should make your life easier – I know my upstream link isn’t … Continue reading →

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I’m IPv6 ready – are you?

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Michael Fleming

Firstly for those wondering about Courier-IMAP / authlib / maildrop+authlib packages for Leonidas:  I’ve built them successfully – only a minor adjustment needed after all that -  and it’s available in the usual place. Enjoy, and let me know if … Continue reading →

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