courtesy
I’m testing the Prosody XMPP server [http://prosody.im/] 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 non-privileged serf/peon >
centos
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 moved to a Xen VPS at
bloodyidiots
* 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
fedora
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
dns
SORBS is on death’s door. [http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/0013215/The-Imminent-Demise-of-SORBS] 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
courier
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
authentication
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
fedora
* 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.
informationtech
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
fedora
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
hosting
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 copyright notice. Unfortunately for him and the
technical
I’ve turned off the wp-supercache plugin on my site (I packaged and installed 0.9 last night) as it was throwing random 500 Internal Server errors. I’m not sure why though, the logs weren’t telling me anything useful. I’m running the APC PHP cache and mod_