bash
zip zip
02.02.08 | Permalink | No Comments
It's the simplest things. Really. I do the same dumb thing 50 times without ever stopping to think if there might be a better way. And then, when I stumble into it, I smack myself in the forehead.
Zips. I work with WordPress, and on my development install I'm constantly downloading ...
dovecot, email, postfix
apt-get remove dovecot spamassassin postfix
10.23.07 | Permalink | No Comments
Sweet! Google Apps / Gmail just got IMAP. There goes my final reason for trying to figure out email server configuration on my own. Now I can focus on the things that really matter - porting NES classic games to the ncurses interfaces. You haven't played zelda until you've ...
shared hosting, slicehost
Denial of (advertised) Service Attack!
10.20.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments
Last spring, I posted this tutorial on how to use rsync to upload data to a Dreamhost server. It's still the most popular article ever posted on that blog, even more popular ...
distros
ubuntu upgrade rush
10.19.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments
Note to self: don't even attempt to use apt-get or aptitude during the week of a major distro release from Ubuntu. It's not worth the pain of 8KB/s download times over a massive 1MB/s pipe.
mysql, shared hosting
Migrating your MySQL database from Dreamhost
09.03.07 | Permalink | No Comments
Those of you who are still using the Dreamhostess with the Mostest (downtime) are probably looking for another solution for your webby goodness after the networking train wreck of the past few months (1, ...
apache, debian, tutorials
Plate Up! Bash Script for Apache VHost Setup
08.07.07 | Permalink | 7 Comments
In the sisyphian marathon of blowing up and rebuilding my server, I've had to go through the process of reconfiguring my virtual hosts for Apache2 several times. Well, that gets a bit tedious. How can my hands do the very important jobs of holding a beer up to my lips ...
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