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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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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 Too Fscking Clever (or a web development framework ORM)
If you are asked to forward ports to [...]

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 [...]

Vale SORBS, we’ll hardly miss ye…

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 plain poor and demanding a “donation” for removal is just plain bovine excrement.
Something I learned from [...]

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 [...]

Mike’s Mailer Cookbook: SMTP auth, SASL and MySQL

I’m putting this up here as both a reminder to myself and just in case it’s useful to others.
I serve my IMAP user credentials (Courier in my case) from a MySQL backend and know from experience that my users find it very convenient to use the same set of credentials when sending mail with SMTP [...]

Random musings for an autumn evening.

Is it some extension of Sod’s Law that the day after I build a brand new package, upstream will put out a new version that fixes some serious bug? libmemcached is a good example. I’ve just pushed 0.28 the ThatFlemingGent repo less than a day after 0.27. Are the tangent.org folks watching me?
Collary: [...]

Where to from here?

I seem to have found myself at a crossroads. Not a personal one (well, not really) but hobby / professional. Make of that what you will.
Firstly, I’ve been doing IT support and systems administration for a living for nigh on nine years now. I’d been a Linux tinkerer well before then (I got into mail [...]

The one about yoga, marketing and DNS.

I’ve been fairly flat out this week. No blog entries, even my Twitter updates are sparse in comparison to the norm for me.
Speaking of Twitter - dear Marketing people: I know you won’t listen because you don’t really care unless you can make a buck out of it, but we would like at least one [...]

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