So, I have registered a few more domain names than I really need. The domain names are usually a result of this: I get a good (or bad) idea for a web site project I think of good (and bad) domain names for the project I register a domain name for the web site But,… Continue reading Letting Go (of domain names) Is Never Easy
Category: Off-topic
Network printer power-on when needed
My FreeBSD server is now equipped with a TellStick for control of 433.92 Mhz wireless remote switches. Our home is not (yet 🙂 fully controlled by remote switches but we have a few of them now. One of the features I wanted was to control some lights but for some reason the TellStick in the… Continue reading Network printer power-on when needed
Moving IMAP accounts from Courier to Google Mail
I ran imapsync on my mail server like this to move a couple of accounts away from my server: imapsync –syncinternaldates –host1 localhost –user1 user –password1 secret –host2 imap.gmail.com –port2 993 –ssl2 –user2 [email protected] –password2 secret –authmech1 LOGIN –authmech2 LOGIN –split2 100 (WordPress is a bit too clever, so — above means two hyphens. Sorry.)… Continue reading Moving IMAP accounts from Courier to Google Mail
Spotify Mixer DJ Software
This is not a new idea. A Swedish forum has a discussion thread Dj:a med Spotify that suggested the same thing months ago. With both despotify and libspotify available, someone with time and interest could make something like UltraMixer but with Spotify as the main source of music. A DJ with this application would have… Continue reading Spotify Mixer DJ Software
SSL certificate anguish revisted
About one year and one month ago I wrote about SSL certificate anguish. Recently the certificate has expired so I wanted to create a new one. Unfortunately the apache2-ssl-certificate tool went missing and as my server runs Ubuntu 8.04.2 (Hardy) it’s simply not there! I did this to create the new self-signed certificate: Download the… Continue reading SSL certificate anguish revisted
MySQL, the new Cinderella
Oracle tried to buy MySQL. Sun bought MySQL. Oracle buys Sun. MySQL will become Cinderella with the ugly stepmother Oracle mistreating her.
Ubuntu 9.04 will be released on Thursday
Tired of Lighttpd
The initial VPS package I ordered did not have very much RAM so I decided to run Lighttpd. Since then I have upgraded the VPS to a pretty luxurious package so the RAM limitation hardly applies anymore. I still haven’t moved all my websites from the old server to the VPS and I just realized… Continue reading Tired of Lighttpd
My laptop is back from service
After the RAM failure I procrastinated for two weeks before sending the laptop to service and then it took a month (including Christmas and stuff) to get it back. After service they tried to return it to the wrong address by changing the first letter in the street name from S to T and dropping… Continue reading My laptop is back from service
Moved the first Ruby on Rails site from Apache to Lighttpd
Yesterday I managed to move the first Ruby on Rails site to its new home on the VPS. The move had been easier if I hadn’t decided to use Lighttpd this time around, but finally I got everything working. The site I moved is only the administration interface for the energy drink database used by… Continue reading Moved the first Ruby on Rails site from Apache to Lighttpd