I have been meaning to get this blog SSL protected for a while and since solution like letsencrypt makes it easy I have generated some SSL keys for my domain and configured it in apache. So far so good, but the thing is my VM at my hosting provider is pretty small and I have been using varnish for quite some time or I would get out of memory quickly some the kernel OOM killer kicking1 it....
Like a lot of people I have my irssi on a server in a screen. This has been working great so far but my only concerns are the notifications on the desktop when something happening. Over the time I have found some different solution with mitigated results for me : Use fanotify script with the libnotify-bin and SSH like mentioned here. Setup your irssi (or other) as irc proxy bouncer and connect with...
This is fun, theses two CEO of theses big companies are dog fighting each others : Dave post: http://blogs.netapp.com/dave/2007/09/netapp-sues-sun.html Johanthan answer: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/on_patent_trolling but the real (fake) truth about that post is here : http://fakeschwartz.blogspot.com/2007/09/bring-it-cowboy.html I tend to believe more NetAPP in this case, just because i don’t know how many time i have sweared on that bloody ps -aux that does not work on solaris.
I have finally changed chmouel.com over a new provider. The new provider is called WebHost and i got a VPS with 50GB of bandwith and 2GB of storage for 10US$ a month. My first task was to compile python2.4 on that box which look like it’s based on RH7.3 with heavy customization. Hopefully python really can compile everywhere. I would like to thanks Vincent Danen for all his free hosting...
At work we are using Asterisk and Jabber and i am using Gajim as my client. I did a quick patch to have a notification on my desktop when someone call me and i get my big headphones (not that i like the phone very much but well), here is the patch for people who may wants it : http://trac.gajim.org/ticket/1998
On X86_64 VM Emulation works way better with Xen 3.0 than with Vmware. Xen is pretty awesome compared to Vmware for my use. The only thing i have to figure out is how to get rpmstrap get it workin on Debian base system.