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

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Michael Fleming

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 … Continue reading →

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Random musings for an autumn evening.

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Michael Fleming

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 … Continue reading →

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Where to from here?

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Michael Fleming

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 … Continue reading →

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The one about yoga, marketing and DNS.

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Michael Fleming

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 … Continue reading →

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