I recently swapped over from lighty to nginx, and man, am I glad I did. I have no idea about the internals, which is faster, lighter, better, etc, but nginx is way more intuitive to configure. Which in the end means my server is set up better. That kick started my latest obsession, speeding up [...]
I left a few things unsaid in my previous post basic hostname set up, and after talking with some people about /etc/hosts, I thought a quick follow up is in order. Firstly, my preference is to use the ethernet’s ip address to tie the host name to the FQDN, but others like to use 127.0.1.1. [...]
I was helping out someone with a postfix issue, and something just clicked that will speed up diagnosing similar problems. It’s not so much a postfix problem as a hostname problem, and it’s very basic. The symptom was, mail sent to the server at domain.com was being bounced. Looking at postfix logs, postfix was trying [...]
I’ve being walking down to The Georges River lately for exercise, and there’s a nice looking bike/walk path where I sit down to rest. So I decided to head down there on my bike and check it out. My first ride in years, my tyres are flat, bike computer battery is flat, half a bottle [...]
I just read a post I wanted leave a comment on, but it didn’t allow comments, so I will jot my thoughts down here. You’ve just spent the last 10 minutes searching for an answer to a problem you’ve got, maybe you had the same problem a few years ago and forgot the answer. You [...]
For a while now, I had not being using FreeSWITCH for my VoIP, but just logging into PennyTel directly with my Nokia E65. It worked OK, but the voice quality wasn’t as good as going through FreeSWITCH. A month ago my old ADSL router died, so I bought a Billion 5200N to replace it. Since [...]
I recently upgraded to snow leopard and noticed some DNS weirdness. I couldn’t ssh to hosts defined in my local DNS, it wouldn’t resolve, but I could resolve them with the host command. Turns out Snow Leopard made quite a few changes to the resolver, it no longer uses /etc/resolv.conf but mDNSResponder, at least for [...]
I had a job come in last week for a linux file server to connect a few windows machines together, and a few printers. The client was exposed to a linux file server in a previous job, and wanted something similar. It was a small business, with not much money to spend, and the server [...]
I wanted a few programming projects to do to keep juices flowing. I came up with two twitter ones, http://twitter.com/slugupdates and http://twitter.com/cityrailupdates. Inspired by Lindsay’s bushfire project. They are both little python programmes. slugupdates just waits for messages posted to the slug announce list, procmail carbon copies the message and pipes it to the programme, [...]
Barrang officially opens its doors on the 19th of February, 2009. Barrang is starting out primarily as a Linux Consultancy mainly targeting local small businesses in south west Sydney. My primary target market doesn’t have a lot of money, especially in this climate, so I intend to provide maximum value to my clients by using [...]