Category Archives: Just Livin’

Going dark…

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Michael Fleming

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 →

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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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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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Too Fscking Clever

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Michael Fleming

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 →

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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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Vale SORBS, we’ll hardly miss ye…

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Michael Fleming

SORBS is on death’s door. I can’t say I’m unhappy to see this or i’ll miss it when it’s gone. An arbitrary definition of “spam” is not so good; providing almost no information to administrators and end users is just … 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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Some updates, and a little “open sermon”

Posted on June 14, 2009 by Michael Fleming

I’m in the unusual position of being inside, yet rugged up with a jacket and scarf with what feels like a cold. I can’t say I’m happy about it. Upgraded WordPress here to 2.7.1 (Fedora 11 RPM rebuilt for F10) … Continue reading →

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