I’ve not long got back from colo’ing the new server, obstler. Tonight was the only night I could do it before next week, and Graham very kindly offered to give me a lift from home at 6pm, aiming to be there by 8pm.
I left dayjob early and rushed home but unfortunately Graham got held […]
BitFolk is providing additional mirrors in London and San Francisco for the Ubuntu UK Podcast.
I think my end is sorted out so hopefully the Ubuntu UK side of things will be ready in time for episode 2’s release early next week.
Obviously as it’s only on episode 2 it’s rather new so I’m not exactly expecting […]
BitFolk’s spamd service in London has been a little overloaded in recent times. A lot of the times the backend servers have been complaining that they’re full and some connections were being delayed. As a free service it is challenging to keep it performing perfectly and I only attempt to do so on […]
I find myself in the position of needing to overhaul BitFolk’s Red Hat-alike offerings, which at the moment are limited to Fedora Core 6. Apparently that is out of date now and Fedora aren’t supplying any updates for it anymore, and my understanding is that in Red Hat land one can’t just upgrade to […]
If your Ubuntu Gutsy chroot/domU segfaults weirdly under Xen, maybe you forgot to move /lib/tls out of the way?
I encountered this one yesterday as one of my customers asked me about problems debootstrapping under Xen. I have done several debootstraps before so wasn’t aware of any obvious problem, and this irritated me enough to […]
I just thought I would blog this so that people can find it in a search, as I could not when I tried.
I have a perl script on a machine that sends out transactional emails with the from address like billing@example.com. The machine it sends from is not example.com. Let’s call it admin.foobar.example.com. […]
Bryn, I have been generally happy with smile. Since online is the only place you get to do things with them they tend to have it all worked out. The only thing I dislike about their web interface is that they make the back button log you out “for security reasons”, but at […]
In relation to my recent hardware issues I now have a bit of a dilemma, although it’s not a bad kind of dilemma to have.
Yesterday afternoon memtest86+ locked up after 10h28m running. It didn’t report any memory errors but clearly there are hardware problems there if even memtest can lock it up. So […]
I’ve got a Supermicro-based server that I’m in the process of setting up for Xen hosting purposes. After 3 or 4 days of uptime and light load (because it’s not in production yet) sitting in its rack in a datacentre weird things start to happen.
I get random kernel panics and OOPSes, it locks up […]
This post a bit delayed but as usual I’ve been rather busy.
I spent last Saturday (21st) in Telehouse reinstalling curacao to make it similar to the new server, islay. I’d already moved everyone over to islay so I could do this and take as long as I wanted doing it. One slight snag […]