As part of an overall upgrade for my systems, I’m moving to a brand new server. It’s my first rackmount server at 1U high and will be going into a colocation centre soonish. It will be running a variety of applications including: Mandriva Linux 2010.0 Web Serving: Nginx, Apache 2.2, PHP 5.3 Mail: Postfix, Dovecot, [...]
With my slow move over to nginx I’ve been finding the odd niggle to solve. Today’s one was the inability for my wordpress installations to use the automatic upgrade facility whilst running on nginx. Instead it kept asking to fall back to ftp for upgrading. On apache, this can occur when your wordpress directory does [...]
Lots going on at the moment. I’m migrating most of mine and my clients websites to nginx from apache in preparation for moving everything to a new server. First thoughts? Nginx is super fast, reasonably easy to configure (once you figure out the php issues) and saves a heap on memory. Downside? I’ve had the [...]
Whenever you have pesky windows users on your network, your file system on any servers running samba start to gain extra, silly, “Thumbs.db” files. If you’re like me and hate the things with a vengeance, you can get rid of every single one of them using the linux command line below. updatedb;for i in `locate [...]
Today I got my DViCO FusionHDTV Pro (dvb-t) card working under mandriva linux in Melbourne, Australia. I’ve been wanting to do this for years and has actually been the major stopper in Mandriva becoming my primary OS on my desktop (besides my laptop(s), wifes laptop, friends laptops, and all my servers). I always figured I [...]