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 relationship model used as

dns

Vale SORBS, we'll hardly miss ye...

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

backup

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 seem to like

fedora

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

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 a change I managed to

fedora

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

fedora

That Fleming Gent Meets Leonidas

My long-running repository at ThatFlemingGent [https://www.thatfleminggent.com/rpm-packages] (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

ejabberd

Experiences in both success and failure

I did my bit: [http://admin.fedoraproject.org/voting] I really do like where things are headed and I’m sure the good work will continue ? There’s been some lively debates on the mailing lists of late, but it’s worked out smoothly and courteously in this humble hacker’

fedora

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.

fedora

Result may be fit, social with an open messaging standard on top.

Techie Happenings: I’ve been tinkering with more XMPP (Jabber to you oldies) messaging in general, as it happens. I’ve had a look at the python Yahoo transport and found it a little lacking – it’s config is a little too different to the python MSN / ICQ / AIM transports

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

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

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

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.

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/

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

fedora

Know Your Product.

Remi Collet ponders usage rates of the Enterprise RH versions vs Fedora. [http://blog.famillecollet.com/post/2009/04/19/FC4-FC5-closing] It’s a good question too, actually. Personally I think a lot of it comes down to what you offer in your repo – I know most of my downloads

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 after 0.

fedora

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 a new version