07Aug

Dedicated Haiku Follower

CoolStuff, Linux

A few weeks ago I posted that I would be going out to the LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco. Yesterday I made my appearance, and took the time to talk to the guys at Haiku for a good while. They seemed to get the idea that I flew out here just to see [...]

31Jul

Checkgmail Uses 100% CPU at Startup

HowTo, Linux

While using checkgmail on Ubuntu 7.10 I was running checkgmail with no problem at all. I not too long ago upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 and quickly noticed that checkgmail was taking 30+ seconds to start and was taking 100% of my CPU.
I did a search on Google and found a lot of users experiencing [...]

07Jul

LinuxWorld Expo 2008 San Francisco

CoolStuff, Linux, Technology

I’ll be attending the LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco at the beginning of August. I’ll be arriving mid way through the conference so that I can attend to my sons first birthday and celebrations.
I’ll be attending the exhibit hall and keynote addresses on Wednesday and Thursday (Aug 6 + 7), as well as Ubucon [...]

02Jul

Getting Lighttpd, FastCGI and PHP working on CentOS 4

HowTo, Linux, PHP, Technology

Over the years I have been installing Lighttpd from the RPMforge repository on my CentOS 4 servers for high traffic sites. The one thing that bothers me time and again is that installing lighttpd, lighttpd-fastcgi and PHP; configuring lighttpd.conf to enable FastCGI and configuring FastCGI for PHP isn’t all that is required. Try [...]

18Jun

CheckGmail Problem With Google Hosted Domains

HowTo, Linux

For some time now I have been using CheckGmail to monitor both my gmail.com accounts and my sivel.net accounts. But several months ago Google changed the way that accounts are authenticated for hosted domains.
If you are experiencing this problem I suggest downloading the most recent version of CheckGmail from the CheckGmail subversion trunk. [...]