This is the End of Serendipity
Serendipity is an excellent blogging platform. I’m still moving to wordpress. Why? For professional reasons. There are so many wordpress installations out there that experiencing all of its warts and deep flaws becomes a professional advantage.
It’s the broken windows fallacy all over again.
How to Install Debian Testing
Drupal Database Maintenance Script
The attached script is a perl version of some popular Drupal MySQL database optimizations plus a mysqldump. I added some extra stuff. I suppose it might work on a Microsoft OS, but I didn’t check into it at all.
Please note: The script is dual licensed.
-If you are using it for your non-revenue producing [...]
Debian KDE 4.3 Packages
Debian has KDE 4.3 packages in Sid. If you are running Debian’s testing then, it’s not too hard to get it installed. FYI: Debian’s Testing version is equivalent to running a Ubuntu distro only the bugs are (on average) fixed faster.
1. Add Sid repo’s to your sources.list
2 create a /etc/apt/preferences file and [...]
mingw, strawberrry-perl and libxml2 on Win32
I found myself needing a perl script on a windows server. I run strawberry-perl distro on these servers. The perl script needed libxml2. As you may not know, strawberry-perl is built with entirely free tools. (mingw) There is the gnuwin32 project that builds gnu libraries using Microsoft’s build tools, but [...]
Read moreBarracuda Networks Breaks SMTP Standard
This is a follow-on to my last post here.
Typical form mail garbage that has nothing to do with the problem from Barracuda Networks. My replies are in bold. Thank you for contacting Barracuda Networks regarding your issue. Your issue is important to us. We have assigned a confirmation number: **** to this [...]
FYI: Barracuda Networks Erases Email
Much to my dismay, Barracuda Networks doesn’t work very well. If you are having delivery problems with no bouncing, or emails just disappearing into a black hole somewhere this may help you. Summary: email is black holed when filtered through Barracuda Network’s service at barracudaCentral.org.
This site is hosted on a static IP. [...]
Microsoft and Apple’s Achilles Heel
We all know Apple and Microsoft rule the consumer’s perception of the ‘computer.’ They both have the same Achilles heel. Both organizations place the needs of media distributors over their customers needs/wants.
A little ‘State of the State’ may be necessary.
Media distributors are ‘making lemonade’ out of the simple fact that it is [...]