After putting off upgrades on omicron for ages (I was busy), this week I finally found the time. So, I’m now running:
Apache 2.2.8
Tomcat 6.0.16
MySQL 5.0.54
Subversion 1.4.6
Woo yeah for them all running smoothly! I was especially happy that converting my Tomcat 5.5 configuration to 6.0 was easy.
As a bonus upgrade, I’ve switched the theme on my [...]
So, yesterday evening bytemark finally got around to upgrading the host machine for my VM server. The upgrade itself went smoothly, so I now have 300MB of memory and 20GB of disc space (at no extra cost). Woo for me
I did however have some problems getting the server to come back online again [...]
This afternoon I decided I needed a walk to clear my head (too much work, too little sleep) so, I found myself wanting to copy some new music* onto my iAudio X5L, something I haven’t done in a while. Like, since when I first bought and filled it a year ago. “No problem” thinks me, [...]
Also tagged Hardware, MusicA couple of weeks ago I decided to give Ubuntu a try. Why? Well, I’ve been recommending it to, and installing it for (none technical) people who are just getting started with Linux, while using Gentoo on my own systems, so I figured it was high time I gave it a try as my day-to-day [...]
Also taggedPhi is now running Beyrl on TwinView at 2560×1024 Oh so very sweet!
I’m using the Beyrl packages from portage and the nVidia desktop effects method (no XGL or AIGLX). Got it running pretty easily following the guides on the wiki. I had to stop using Xinerama as Beryl doesn’t support it, but getting [...]
Apache logs come in two (main) formats - common and combined. The common logs contain only the IP address or hostname of the client, the URL requested, and the HTTP status code. The combined logs contain additional information like browser, operating system and referrers. The combined log therefore allow for more detailed statistics to be [...]
Also tagged SysadminAs a result of the recent downtime the digging caused I started investigating ways to improve the performance of my server by tweaking Wordpress, Apache and MySQL.
First, a bit of background. I’m running Gentoo Linux on low spec UML instance hosted at Bytemark. My machine has a mere 160MB of memory, so this clearly going [...]
I ran out of disc space on my /usr partition today. Note to self, 5GB is not enough for /usr… I was slightly annoyed, as it ran out while I was installing some Java libs I needed for work. I stopped for a coffee and had a thought. “Did I use LVM last time I [...]
Also tagged SysadminGnome 2.16 has been around for a while - but it only went stable on Gentoo yesterday - until then I have been just, well, waiting. Of course I could have unmasked it ages ago, but I just don’t have the time to muck about with it at the moment.
Anyway - I’ve updated my laptop, [...]
So I was wondering why my laptop was not reporting the correct amount of memory in /proc/meminfo. Turns out I forgot to enable High Memory support in the kernel. D’oh. A quick kernel rebuild and we’re ok
MemTotal: 1034460 kB
Makes me wonder why this isn’t enabled by default…