One day recently, I was looking through the management tool of a site that had quite a few comments. Great news right? Unfortunately, no… all spam… As I began to look further into where the spam was coming from it became quite clear that the initial onslaught actually started out Read more…
So I was working on getting things up and running with a web host and I encountered a problem with uploading files which generated a generic "500 Internal Server Error" which is about as descript as a white sheet of paper sitting in a field of snow on a glacier. Read more…
So I found a theme that works well for what I have posted on this site (so far), Hiero. However, I found a problem with how it handles images in conjunction with posts to Facebook and LinkedIn. Whenever it posts, it pulls an image from the media library. There's no Read more…
I have been fighting for some time with iptables logs going to the kern.log, debug.log and messages files. This is ridiculously spammy and makes it very difficult to find other problems that might show up in these logs. In my searches I found the following blog entry, used it as Read more…
So I decided to give the oVirt virtualization platform a shot again today since in order for me to run VMWare ESX I'm going to need to drop $100+ on a new raid controller and I just don't have that right now. This involved loading Fedora Core 18 which was Read more…
So I decided to mess around with bitcoins, not for any purpose other than to learn something new. At this point it's difficult to 'mine' for them since BC's have been around for several years now and they've designed a system which will get exponentially harder over time (a good Read more…
It's been a while since I've started using KVM/QEMU in conjunction with Archipel. I can say that this has been ANYTHING BUT an easy journey. My previous findings… that while the core virtualization product might be ready for prime time but the management tools are not… is proving to be an Read more…