-
Recent Posts
Recent Comments
Archives
- April 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- January 2010
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- March 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- August 2007
- June 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- September 2006
- June 2005
Categories
Meta
Author Archives: admin
Launch of FishBlab!
On January first 2011 we deemed FishBlab.com to be complete enough for official Alpha release. http://www.fishblab.com is now live! I will be discussing the various features in future blog releases. Fishblab.com contains a map based toolset for discussing, reporting and … Continue reading
Follow up: lost connection to mysql server at ‘reading initial communication packet’, system error: 113
This is a follow up to my post: “lost connection to mysql server at ‘reading initial communication packet’, system error: 113″ It is now safe to say that the issue has been resolved with the switch from centos 5 to … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Who the fuck pays for RHEL?
Seriously. Who the hell would pay for RHEL? Ok, you have a big wasteful company company run by inept and stupid managers – I can understand that. But otherwise, why pay? I have 8 machines on a site. RHEL wants … Continue reading
lost connection to mysql server at ‘reading initial communication packet’, system error: 113
Yeah, that one! You getting that too? Ripping your hair out? Here, have some of mine too! I was getting an intermittenet error on a CENTOS 5 PHP 5.3 server. Hard to recreate as it occurred every few hours. This … Continue reading
RHEL 6 is nice!
Just loaded up a new version of RHEL 6. This is a PHP appication server that will sit between the front end lightweight apache servers and the back end MySQL databases. This is very preliminary, but the performance increase is … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
WordPress MU or Standalone?
We have been evaluating both WordPress and WordPress MU (multiuser). WordPress MU allows us to setup a domain (or sub domian) and then provide users the ability to create their own blogs instantly. Using Apache wildcard virtualhosts in conjunction with DNS … Continue reading
Posted in Server Configuration, Wordpress
Leave a comment
WordPress install and configuration
Downloading and configuring wordpress on fedora core 6 (FC6) is fairly straightforward. Some questions I had were: what is the best installation and configuration process for setting up multiple blogs, and how easy is it to back up and update … Continue reading
Posted in Server Configuration, Wordpress
Leave a comment
CVS server configuration
I configured the CVS server on a remote fedora 6 (FC6) server today. It was a bit of a pain but only because of the lack of clear documentation. I needed a remote server to run CVS so that any … Continue reading
Posted in Server Setup & Config
Leave a comment
Hello to Postfix!
As part of our platform rebuilding we have decided to switch to to Postfix. This was a suggestion I have heard quite a bit. I also considered sendmail but was concerned with how daunting a task it would be to configure. The config … Continue reading
Posted in Server Configuration
Leave a comment
Goodbye to qmail
We have been a qmail shop since 1997 and I for one am fed up with qmail. Good god it’s been stuck at 1.03 since I started using it and now has a myriad of patches. It can only be installed … Continue reading
Posted in Postfix, Server Configuration
Leave a comment