courtesy How polite! 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 non-privileged serf/peon
centos New hosting arrangements 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’
bloodyidiots Too Fscking Clever 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 Things I thought I'd never see 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
dns Vale SORBS, we'll hardly miss ye... 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
courier I'm IPv6 ready - are you? 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
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
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
fedora The one about yoga, marketing and DNS. 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
hosting Sort-of-Emergency Post 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.
technical Supercache and I... 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
technical LOLWUT? So, what have I done, where is the old site, you ask? Well, I figured that the site could do with an update. It’s been literally years since I’ve made a major change to it. However there’s a few problems with this: I am
technical Just doing some rearrangements. Don’t mind the disruption. I’ve just moved the blog to it’s own independent URL, just to keep things clean. Visitors and feed readers will be redirected automatically (a few lines of mod_rewrite here and there) I’ll restore the Gallery2 integration once
humour .bullshit Tim Berners-Lee says the Internet is full of lies He’s quite right in saying there’s a hell of a lot of unsubstantiated and downright erroneous rubbish out there – look around FreeRepublic or StormFront or RaptureReady or the Church Of Scientology for example (and despair for
fedora Updates.. Work: Is going well. Security and fixup work at the moment, a nice mailserver build (learning a bit about I/O kernel elevators) and miscellanea. Life: My love is back from interstate with all of her needed gear. Catching up with old friends from school via Facebook of all places.
fedora Enlightened kids and new toys and spring cleaning.. Posted to the U-Zendo mailing list: …even comic characters understand the concept of impermanence 🙂 Me: I’ve been doing some server infrastructure and web R&D lately; I am a fairly recent convert to the benefits of PowerDNS, especially the recursor, which I’ve now installed
technical Quote of the Day sean: it’s kind of like you stuck your head in a concrete mixer, that’s full of midgets with drum kits and now your complaining about the banging, you daft fucks My friend Sean, on a customer who has every single Windows non-info-level event log entry emailed
networking Offline, again. Sorry to readers / visitors again for another extended outage. This one is again not my doing but this time there’s been a happier ending. I elected on Friday to churn my ADSL service to Internode (a fairly large ISP here in Australia) as they provide a decent service
technical I've Got The Key, I've Got The Secret.... Address HWtype HWaddress Flags Mask Iface uncrackable.security.isnt ether 09:F9:11:02:9D:74 C eth0 no.unbreakable.encryption ether E3:5B:D8:41:56:C5 C eth0 better.luck.next.time ether 63:56:88:C0:00:00 C eth0 Edit: Seeing it reported as a lead
networking A word on DNS blacklists. There seems to be some disagreement regarding use of DNS blacklists (“DNSBLs”) among some members of the Internet community (pro-DNSBL here and slightly con here for example) This is fine, they’re both valuable notices and opinions. What bothers me a little is the seeming lack of
fedora Pre-Christmas message :-) A few things: Life: Spending Christmas with the family this year. As is tradition, I’ll be sleeping on the couch/floor/other non-bed flat surface. Dad is not well, unfortunately. We’ll find out more next week from the specialist. Organized a fortnight off work starting new
technical New weblog software! Yes, after something of a hiatus I’ve followed the crowd and switched over to WordPress. Is this a permanent arrangement? I’ll have to see how it goes. It’s been OK so far, although not having my own tree is something of a pain.. (this