Twitter: @thatfleminggent

  • Really should use a templating engine for Meisha's website.. 21 hrs ago
  • Flicking some DNS zones around. #powerdns gsqlite3 backend really doesn't like apostrophes in TXT RRs :-P 1 day ago
  • "Firefox: It Won't Make Your Missus Puke" should be the next Mozilla slogan :-) 2 days ago
  • Questions With Obvious Answers Number 65535: Asking a sysadmin on a Friday afternoon if he wants a beer. 2 days ago
  • I hope rebirth really exists so my network administrator spends the next several lifetimes as a telemarketer. Thatll teach him. 2 days ago
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Michael Fleming

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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 framework’s object relationship model used as a database stress tester (cheers Django!). I don’t think it [...]

More of Michael’s Not So Quick Tips

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 one I had didn’t seem to like ext4 (complained about unsupported filesystem options at boot time [...]

Presto, We Have No Gallery!

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 always fast so the less traffic over it the better for you guys - it’s a [...]

I’m IPv6 ready - are you?

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 there’s any bugs / issues.
(For a change I managed to get them out the door [...]

Some updates, and a little “open sermon”

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) without too many hassles. It kept retrying the database upgrade(!) but disabling the plugins and a [...]

That Fleming Gent Meets Leonidas

My long-running repository at ThatFlemingGent (or “Enlartenment” for those who haven’t caught up) is live and ready for use.
As releases have progressed the list I offer has become smaller, as many have been pulled into Fedora proper (either by me or other Fedora contributors), died upstream or just dropped due to lack of my/visitor interest
There’s [...]

Experiences in both success and failure

I did my bit:

I really do like where things are headed and I’m sure the good work will continue There’s been some lively debates on the mailing lists of late, but it’s worked out smoothly and courteously in this humble hacker’s opinion.
All the tested LiveCDs and pre-releases of F11 I’ve tried have been painless [...]

Scale and speed and spam

Obligatory Laugh-and-head-shake digression: I’ve been fighting email spam for 12 years plus, and I still see stupid spammers - pardon the tautology - indiscriminately junkmailing abuse@  role addresses. Idiots. Why not just offer crack to a cop?
With that thought out of the way…
Mike McGrath’s memcached plug prompted me to give it a go here, for [...]