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Michael Fleming

Michael Fleming

bloodyidiots

Can sanity prevail? Here's hoping.

Christian lobby upset about Australian government backtracking on Internet Censorship [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2009/05/27/1243103585180.html] I’ve one word to say about this: good. The whole sorry mess that is the Australian net censorship debate has become an international embarrassment. It is not or

By Michael Fleming 28 May 2009

ipv6

This is why I'm not a "webmaster"

In an effort to help my girlfriends website generate a bit of traffic  – and some business for her ? – I’ve spent a bit of time (probably a little too much for a holidaying techie, but it’s a “love job”) trying to get my head around more indepth search engine

By Michael Fleming 23 May 2009

fedora

Murphy is my co-pilot.

After moving what seems to be several mountains at the workplace over the last few weeks, I’m finally on holiday. Additionally, my girlfriend is back from interstate, which makes me even happier. Alas, nature doesn’t like us and lo, as soon as she stepped off the plane it

By Michael Fleming 20 May 2009

courier

New courier-imap packages

Sam released 4.5.0 today (and maildrop 2.1.0, which I’m trying to package up now and having an interesting time tracking a compile problem with the db/gdbm stuff) – I’ve updated my packages for CentOS/RHEL and Fedora in the usual places [https://www.thatfleminggent.

By Michael Fleming 12 May 2009

fedora

This should be obvious, but..

If it’s not notifications / oddly explained failures to build from gcc itself (hello davfs2 [http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/davfs2] on CentOS/RHEL5, where did that fail? Insights welcomed as the build.log is charmingly opaque. Cheers) or flex & bison (Hello vulcan [http://www.fzort.org/mpr/projects/

By Michael Fleming 08 May 2009

buddhism

De-stressing

Hey Yaakov, make that four users [http://loupgaroublond.blogspot.com/2009/05/fedora-devshell-is-now-packaged-in.html] once I’ve set it up, I certainly do like the looks of it. A good tool that makes any job easier is a winner in my book, and that looks like a good one indeed.

By Michael Fleming 05 May 2009

fedora

Quick head-scratcher avoidance tip

When upgrading versions of Fedora, it’s almost never a bad idea to force a SELinux relabel on reboot (or via fixfiles if it’s a little too late ;-)) I yum-upgraded my doorstop-cum-network box without doing so, then had a momentary headscratcher relating to why Dovecot failed to start

By Michael Fleming 03 May 2009

financialcrisis

A Poutpourri and the GFC.

It’s felt like a long week so far but I must admit I’m faring better than some – I’m looking over resumes for friends at the moment ( I think I’ve seen more skill matrices than shell prompts today!) who’ve lost work over the past few weeks

By Michael Fleming 01 May 2009

authentication

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

By Michael Fleming 28 Apr 2009

apache

I hate it when that happens...

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 [http://fedorahosted.org/koji/wiki] suite. Now I’ve done this

By Michael Fleming 25 Apr 2009

bloodyidiots

The Sir Humphrey Appleby Award goes to...

ObFedoraContent: I have now permanently retired the Fedora 7 and Fedora 8 sections of my repository. As I mentioned a few nights ago, those with older releases should really consider upgrading to a supported release or move to RHEL/CentOS. Cheers. Skip the rest if you’re only wanting things

By Michael Fleming 22 Apr 2009

fedora

A Koan

A novice once came to a systems software roshi seeking wisdom: “I am troubled. My project has become large and I am having trouble reproducing the environment across test servers. I have all my sources and I’ve installed them from source in the ways our forefathers have, but some

By Michael Fleming 21 Apr 2009
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