Entries in the ' linux ' category

Written July 9, 2008 in packagekit

Yesterday, I wrote a long post about PackageKit and pkcon. The general gist of the post is that the software isn’t ready for prime time. Richard Hughes was nice enough to respond and address some of my concerns, and to suggest that I download the development version

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Written July 8, 2008 in Fedora, linux

This is not a complete man page:

PKCON(1) …

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Written July 7, 2008 in punditry, sysadmin, webdev

Continuing the thread of my earlier article on twitter’s architecture mistakes, Big Contrarian (new favorite weblog) made a post a few days ago that caught the SQL optimization report that Twitter leaked via it’s staging site, and then rapidly pulled down.

Ok, Biz Stone, you twit, you failed …

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  • Less Accounting — along with my man-love of Freshbooks, Less Accounting is a more accounting-ish replacement for Quickbooks. Quickbooks sucks and you should not use it.
  • I need to check out the Smart package management system for OpenSuSE… it’s a replacement for Zypper. Zypper’s come a long way

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Written June 10, 2008 in sysadmin

IPSCA offers free certs to .edu; If you’re not .edu it’s still pretty cheap. Requires an intermediate cert pack for firefox, but the root cert is built into both firefox and IE.

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Written June 4, 2008 in sysadmin

Alexander Muse got some video of the outside of the datacenter as another hosting company’s CEO whose servers are hosted with ThePlanet headed out there and did a little journalism.

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Written June 3, 2008 in meta, sysadmin

Alexander Muse seems to be convinced there was something weird that happened at ThePlanet to cause the previously mentioned outage.

Hold on, let me get my tinfoil hat…

I’m still offering the case of beer as a prize for anyone who can take pictures of the interior …

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Written June 1, 2008 in sysadmin

I like being in Systems. We get to play with lots of really cool stuff. Unfortunately, when things with really cool stuff go wrong, they really go wrong.

I’m searching for pictures of the destruction. Three walls knocked down by a transformer going “poof” sounds like a good time. …

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Written May 29, 2008 in howto, sysadmin

I forgot to mention something in yesterday’s post about configuring Postfix with Dovecot and turning on smtp authentication.

When you’re configuring Squirrelmail, you need to make sure that it does smtp authentication. It doesn’t seem that the version that comes with any way to that that *I* could easily find. …

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