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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

Presto, We Have No Gallery!

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 always fast so the less traffic over it the better for

Some updates, and a little "open sermon"

* 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) without too many hassles. It

Scale and speed and spam

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 out of the way… Mike McGrath’s memcached plug [http://mmcgrath.

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/vulcan/

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 at

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. Unfortunately for him and the