Archive for the ‘Off-topic’ Category

Letting Go (of domain names) Is Never Easy

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

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 ...

Network printer power-on when needed

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

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 ...

Moving IMAP accounts from Courier to Google Mail

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

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 user@gmail.com --password2 secret  --authmech1 LOGIN --authmech2 LOGIN --split2 100 (Wordpress is a bit too clever, so -- above means ...

Spotify Mixer DJ Software

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

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 ...

SSL certificate anguish revisted

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

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 ...

MySQL, the new Cinderella

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

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

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009



Tired of Lighttpd

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

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 ...

My laptop is back from service

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

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 ...

Moved the first Ruby on Rails site from Apache to Lighttpd

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

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 ...