scraped again..
June 7, 2008 – 9:02 amIt looks like my posts are appearing on another syndication site without attribution again, this time at a site called “MundoSitio.com”.
Might have to add a redirection somewhere in my apache config..
Brain Dump
June 6, 2008 – 9:27 amWith the end of the financial year coming up, I’ve been doing a lot of machine change overs for clients. One of the things I’ve been trying to do where possible is make the installed software play nice with SELinux, so this post is a brain dump for the setsebool statements need to get the bits working. Huge thanks to Ralph Angenendt for his list of SELinux Booleans on the Centos Wiki (and thanks to Jim Perrin for blogging about it!)
vsFTPd returns “500 OOPS: cannot change directory /home/abc” when user logs in.
“/usr/sbin/setsebool -P ftp_home_dir=1″
Bind can’t write zone files to the /var/named/chroot/var/named directory when acting as a slave*
“/usr/sbin/setsebool -P named_write_master_zones=1″
{Drupal|Wordpress|mediawiki} fail to connect to database when first installed
“/usr/sbin/setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect_db=1″
Nagios doesn’t like working, but doesn’t actually complain..
/usr/sbin/setsebool -P allow_httpd_nagios_script_anon_write=1″
*Yes, I know they should live in the var/named/slave path, but I was building a backup master server for the site which used a bespoke application to read information from the var/named directory, and for whatever reason couldn’t be set to read said files from the var/named/slave directory.
joneses..
May 30, 2008 – 9:45 amKeeping up with Erik de Castro Lopo, Steve Hanley, Jon Oxer and Mike Beattie isn’t that hard;
The HP nx6320 running Fedora7 (about to go to Fedora9), then the four screens run 3 desktops.
The desktop machine itself is a standard Fedora8 install, the machine has two Nvidia cards. The first two screens from the left are a normal gnome 4-way workspace with twin-view, the third 22″ runs it’s own separate “screen” and runs the XP VM I need for the Helpdesk software and lotus, and the little 19″ on top normally has logs or Nagios on it.
I was originally happy with 2 x 22″, but the Manager I report to for this contract wanted 3, so it came in one day to a third one on my desk, then the 19″ arrived as a joke, but quickly got used. What’s missing is the 19″ I use for video conferencing, which lives above the middle 22″, but that’s off being re-pixeled.
Edit: Corrected spelling on Erik de Castro Lopo’s name.
Spring Cleaning
May 8, 2008 – 10:44 pmA little late, but I’ve done a spring clean on the site, upgraded wordpress and coppermine to the latest version, and changed the theme to something a little nicer on the eyes.
Let me know if you find something odd and I’ll look into it.
Vale John Greenham
March 30, 2008 – 6:16 amErin’s stepfather passed away on the 14th March, after a long battle with stomach Cancer. This was his third relapse of the disease, and even though he fought it with the same vigour and testicular fortitude that he had the previous times, this was to be his last. Right up to his last day, he refused to stop lending a hand where it was needed, from fundraising for the local school with the Lions Club, through to helping fellow beekeepers with advice or a hand extracting honey in the extraction plant he designed an built himself. John lived and worked around Dunnedoo, in Central West NSW, about an hour from Dubbo. We had to drive for another 45 minutes to get any GSM reception, so that gives you an idea of exactly how “country” this part of NSW is.
The funeral itself was an agreeably pleasant day, with what looked to be most of the town itself, and surrounding farms attending. Speeches were made, the Lions Club held a guard of honor for John’s coffin, then everyone retired to the church hall for coffee and afternoon tea, organised by the local CWA chapter, which Erin’s mother is a part of. Many people laugh and joke about the CWA and LIONS clubs, but in country towns they play important part of celebrations like this, making small problems disappear and giving families time to grieve and mourn without having to worry about doing things they may not have the time or inclination to worry about.
This also marks the Third installment of our bad news (it does come in threes, no matter how hard you try), so here’s hoping things will improve from here.
follow the link..
February 18, 2008 – 1:54 pmI notice that Russell Coker has boarded his Soap Box on the topic of Small Form Factor laptops for Schools. In it, he says
There is no information on what OS is installed on the Intel Classmate. I’m guessing that it’s some proprietary OS (I expect that they would boast if they were using the higher quality open source software).
Yet, when I visit the classmate website, I can easily Navigate to a page that lists the Operating Systems ( Classmate PC -> System Configuration -> Software) which clearly list Mandriva Discovery as one of the Operating Systems. Not sure why Russell couldn’t be bothered to get the facts for his arguement, but sometimes it’s easier to argue without checking the points.
For those of you who wanted to be at LCA, and couldn’t
January 29, 2008 – 11:37 pmThe Mel8 Technical team, along with the Real Time Communications Section of AARNET, The bandwidth sponsor for Linux.Conf.Au 2008, have organised a special treat for you.
If you really want to be at the Keynote tomorrow, but are stuck at work earning a crust, at home watching the kids, or in a cafe enjoying a coffee, you can tune your VLC compatible player into http://ogg.aarnet.edu.au:8000/lca.ogg and watch the action live from 9am
That’s right, even though we’ve sold out, as a special treat to everyone who wanted to make it and couldn’t, we’ve organized to have the Wednesday Morning keynote available via a VLC compatible stream.
Enjoy!
nothing says “kick in the teeth” like..
December 28, 2007 – 10:10 pmSpent today catching up on bits and pieces that needed to be done before we headed back up to Gosford for the funeral. One of those was catching up with mail that came in while we away. As I mentioned yesterday, there was some Registered post items that needed to be collected from the LPO.
One of them turned out to be from our Estate Agent. We’ve been expecting copies of our lease renewal we recently signed, so this wasn’t totally unexpected. What was unexpected was the letter that came instead, which turned out to be a very official looking form letter informing us we have now formally been provided with 60 days written notice, and must vacate the premises by the 26th of February.
They say bad news comes in three’s, so I’m loathe to think what the third one will be.
christmas was cancelled
December 27, 2007 – 4:42 pmThings have been a bit rough here at casa de Walsh for the last few weeks. In early October my mother rang me to let me know that she’d been in hospital for tests, and that there were some lumps on the liver and the left lung that had her specialist a bit worried. I managed to swing a work trip to Canberra in October that allowed us to continue up and spend some time with her.
In November, she rang to let me know they had determined the liver was the primary tumor, and the growth on the lung was a metastized tumor. I tried to speak to her at least once a week, but the times she was in hospital and allowed calls often occurred at times when I was not able to be near a phone. In mid December I was able to swing another work trip, this time to Sydney, so I flew up early and got to spend another day with her.
Last week we got a call from my Sister to say Mum had requested she be admitted to a palliative care home, so we packed a bag and headed up for some more time with her. First asshat award goes to Qantas, who canceled our flight, and in attempting to rebook us on another flight managed to completely delete our original booking, which then resulted in them needing to generate a credit note, then apply the credit note to a booking, which meant that our 5.15pm flight became a 8.30pm flight. Add to that the train to Gosford and we got to my mother’s house around midnight.
We got to spend some time with her over the next few days, but it was obvious that each time we saw her she was getting weaker and weaker, and eventually by monday communication was primarily by us asking closed questions (i.e. yes/no answers) and basic sign language. Due to a number of reasons, we had to come back on Monday afternoon, so we flew back and got home around 5pm. Spoke to the neighbours, collected the mail which included some registered post cards, and opened the house up. Just after 8pm we got a phone call from my brother letting me know Mum had passed away in her sleep. Scratch Christmas for another year.
and the winner is…
November 16, 2007 – 4:05 pmAt 4.45pm today, the last early bird slot for Linux.conf.au 2008 was taken and paid for. So, if you registered but didn’t get the chance to pay, unfortunately, your conference registration is now at the Full price price of;
Professional: $748
Hobbyist: $352
Student: $154
Hope to see you all there in January.