Zoon Pictures

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 […]

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F-16 Ejection Footage and Pics

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

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UFies.org Re-creation Status

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

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Server Swap Tomorrow

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

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MySQL and Performance Problems

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

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Server Real Close Now

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

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Pics of Potted Plants and Cats

Firefly has a nifty Apple Blossom or Amaryllis (hippeastrum) that’s been slowly growing from a potato shaped beast into what may be an actual real flower one day. I took some shots of it tonight (click for slightly larger version). Patches of course decided that she too wanted to be potted, and curled up for

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