Tag Archives: wtf

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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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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Scale and speed and spam

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Michael Fleming

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 … Continue reading →

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This should be obvious, but..

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Michael Fleming

If it’s not notifications / oddly explained failures to build from gcc itself (hello davfs2 on CentOS/RHEL5, where did that fail? Insights welcomed as the build.log is charmingly opaque. Cheers) or flex & bison (Hello vulcan on F10/x86_64, whaddaya mean … Continue reading →

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I hate it when that happens…

Posted on April 25, 2009 by Michael Fleming

I had a bit of free time – and a half-day at work yesterday to boot – so I thought I’d modernise my set of hacked-up shell scripts (calling mock/createrepo/rsync+ssh) and install the all-singing & dancing Koji suite. Now I’ve … Continue reading →

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Sort-of-Emergency Post

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Michael Fleming

I’ll keep this short as it’s a little late and I should turn in. I’ve had a bit of a hosting hiccup – my now ex-host unceremoniously cut me off and disconnected my server on Valentine’s Day, citing an ESA … Continue reading →

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