You know, even though I don’t use windows a huge amount, I’d think that I’d use other programs enough to bump Windows Update off my “most recently used” list in the start menu. Nope, it’s still there. Second from the bottom, but it’s still hanging in there. I’m happy to see yet another Windows Update, […]
Another Day, Another Windows Update Read Post »
I’ve been posting far too many pictures of some cats, and not enough of others. Tonight Firefly drew my attention to the fact that Zoon (or “the grey one”) was posing nicely in the bathtub for her picture to be taken. I took a few and below is one of the better ones of the
Bush in 41.2 Seconds, via Adam Kessel, is most amusing.
Looking for Less Bush Read Post »
Doing a bit of MP3 tagging via musicbrainz this morning when I came across this. I didn’t know that there were only three seconds of clean lyrics in Eminem music.
Funny Seen on MusicBrainz Read Post »
Wow, the image of the day today is of an F-16 Thunderbird pilot just as he ejects. The info link has video and other pics. Oh, and UFies appears to be crashed/halted/offline. Great. Probably the box is getting scared because today it has to go home. I’m sure it’ll be rebooted soon and come up
F-16 Ejection Footage and Pics Read Post »
Below is a list of the things currently not working on UFies.org (which came up just fine it seems, many thanks to cat5 and Fred). /home copied over /home permissions Pretty sure this is ok now user accounts accessable permissions tweaked for blog users etc Far as I can tell anyway apache suexec support tdiclub
UFies.org Re-creation Status Read Post »
Tomorrow is the big day. The system that’s been sitting (hulking is more like it) on my desk beside me, towering to the roof, the system that has had it’s drives bashed and broken and plundered, whose newly installed OS has been tested, retested, and then tested some more, will find out if it makes
Server Swap Tomorrow Read Post »
Over lunch today I finally resolved the last blocker issue on the newly set up UFies.org box. Everything went in fine but I found while doing some testing on a site with large database tables that performance sucked! The problem could be narrowed down to a query which takes 0.1s on a heavily loaded debian
MySQL and Performance Problems Read Post »
K5 has a cool Sushi-HOWTO. Time to break out the special rice. Also there is the Sushi Eating Howto mentioned in the comments.
Things are really close now. I’ve basically spent the last few evenings and mornings testing, installing, configuring, bashing my head against the desk, and repeating. However, things are done as much as are needed at this point I think. I have mail, apache and the databases going pretty much as much as I want to
Server Real Close Now Read Post »