Fish chips and champagne were very good. The 2 pints and a large G&T may have been a mistake
Archive > March 2008
@gregnbaker Hamachi? Zero Conf…
@gregnbaker Hamachi? Zero Conf VPN? You mean you actually believed them!!! Just tunnel it over SSH – way easier!
Writing a short (ha) post abou…
Writing a short (ha) post about what I’ve been doing for the past 10 years … stupid facebook … means I have to explain myself
Another productive Tuesday
Actually, this one was alarmingly productive:
Our spam detection rates are back up to something like 99% which is highly gratifying
We managed the roll out of a new primary AV engine in just under 3 hours – which is really quite amazing
I’ve got two new servers to build as DCC boxes at some point in the [...]
Well that was pretty damn stupid
Note to self – if suspending your MySQL data directory in RAM, make sure you back it up every five minutes or, the second the power goes down, you’ll lose the lot!.
Sorry to all who commented in the last 4 days – in the move back to the old / new server I managed to [...]
Looooong Weekend Abounds
There’s something about the Good Friday / Easter Bank holiday season that always catches me off guard. And it always seems to come at a very busy point of the year.
This year, I have the (questionable) advantage of the GGF having a pretty nasty rota over the next 3 days which means I can grab [...]
Frustration
I’ve just found a new definition for the word.
For some weeks now (i.e. about 6) I’ve been chasing a bug through one of our internal systems at work. Along the way, the bug was joined by others and then by a couple more until I was simultaneously tracking 5 seeming unrelated, very weird, bugs through [...]
More Speed Improvements
Or at least I hope they’re improvements. As well as shifting the DB into RAM (drastic I know but worth it for this server at least) I’ve also grabbed the pre release of Wordpress 2.5.
This has the advantage of giving the site the benefit of a serious SQL overhaul (Wordpress 2.5 has been very neatly [...]
