The machine that is delivering this blog to you is a standalone Dell server, running CentOS 5.2. It resides in a data center managed by Zope Corporation (ZC) Systems Administrators (SAs). I perform the majority of the software administration and maintenance myself, and they maintain all of the hardware along with some of the software.
The [...]
NginX 0.7.2 is now available. I was running an ancient version, 0.7.1 (just kidding).
So, I downloaded and built 0.7.2. Then I followed the instructions at the bottom of this page, which explain how to upgrade on the fly. It’s even cooler than just not losing any ongoing connections (which would be cool enough!). [...]
This post is really a test, but I’ll share the full problem and solution (assuming the test works), so it might help someone else out there as well.
The other day, for the first time ever, I noticed that a post of mine hit my RSS reader (Thunderbird) with a date of 11/29/1999. I [...]
Yesterday, I took a (cheap) shot at the Firefox launch fiasco. I didn’t need to do it, but I don’t really regret it either. You can’t have it both ways. You can’t want to hype the hell out of the launch, and then be unprepared for it.
Anyway, even though the official launch was delayed by [...]
Well, it’s finally here. I was all set to do my part with helping them attain the nonsensical world record download numbers.
Both Lois and I use Firefox as our primary browsers, and I have an ancient laptop that I occasionally use in a hotel room that I was going to upgrade, and one other one [...]
I’ve been using AlertThingy for a while now. I like the concept a lot. It started out as an Adobe Air front-end to FriendFeed.
Let’s begin (briefly, at least brief by my normal standards) with FriendFeed itself. At a minimum, FriendFeed is a social media aggregator. You can have it create a feed for you, [...]
Last week, my friend Jamie Thingelstad tweeted from the Rails Conference that he was considering switching to NginX (I’ll probably drop the caps starting now) after sitting in on a session about it.
Prior to that mention, I had only heard of it once, when an internal tech email at Zope Corporation mentioned that one of [...]
A few weeks back, I was interviewed by two guys, Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell, who are doing a very interesting survey called How Software Is Built. The transcript of our session just went up last night. It’s long (as most of these are), but if you’re up for it, here’s the link.
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Rube Goldberg would be very proud of what you can accomplish with SSH. If you don’t know what SSH is, you really should just stop reading, as not only will this post be meaningless to you, you wouldn’t care about the result (or technique) even if you followed it perfectly!
A while ago, I [...]
In my Laptop Spring Cleaning post, I mentioned that Lois had been suffering from daily BSOD’s (the infamous Microsoft Blue Screen of Death crashes). I also mentioned that after the spring cleanup, she went five days without a crash. That joy was short-lived, as the crashes returned.
Some days, the machine wouldn’t boot. You could hear [...]
