Linux - That Fleming Gent

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

fedora

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

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

fedora

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

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Memcache related packages

Oh, and the libmemcached and MySQL-memcache UDF packages I mentioned last night? They’re up and available for Fedora and RHEL in the usual place (look down the page if you’re lazy). Please give them a whirl, feedback welcomed. I’m also pleasantly surprised to see

informationtech

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

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Gentlemanly Gaming

Per my musing yesterday, I’ve run up some game servers on qbert. Crossfire is turned off and I’ll wager no one notices. 😀 I have Battle For Wesnoth and Teeworlds running right now, ready to go. The Linux crowd will know Wesnoth well, and Teeworlds is good