I can’t think of any sane reason to reverse proxy Trac when you can serve it up under Apache over SSL, except when you can’t. I backported the latest version of Trac, 0.10.2, to Debian Sarge. The process was quite painful, but the result won’t run under mod_python without some additional backporting, though ultimately that [...]
The Web site Matt’s Computer Trends has followed the price per GB for hard disks dating back to 1995 and generated some interesting graphs and discussion. Though I rarely link elsewhere, I found this article particularly interesting given my recent spat of purchasing several large ATA drives. I hadn’t given it much thought until recently, [...]
Yep, it looks like my replacement Toshiba laptop hard disk from February is failing. It’s doing the same song and dance. It’s making some rather disturbing noises. I suspect within two weeks, like the previous hard disk, this one will simply stop spinning up. No disk I/O errors, yet, but they’ll be soon to come. [...]
Apparently it’s hardware death week. So far, my speakers are acting up, my MS optical mouse is refusing random right clicks, and my 512MB DDR fails consistently under memtest86 on test 5, the last pattern. I had to replace the DDR, and it seems okay, so far. The speakers seem to work on another machine, [...]
After some more testing, I found Luma fails to use the attributes that Mozilla Thunderbird’s AB feature expects. So, stuff like a person’s address, which is visible to Luma when I browse my LDAP tree, is not visible to me under Thunderbird or SquirrelMail’s ldapquery plugin. Not satisified with this, I looked for a few [...]
Recently, I have been toying with using LDAP to handle names, addresses, phone numbers, and thelike. After setting up LDAP, I configured Mozilla Thunderbird to speak with my LDAP based addressbook. It works, sort of. Apparently there are a great many issues that still need to be addressed in Thunderbird. Fortunately, I’m a single user, [...]
After some fiddling I managed to install a recent experimental build of OpenWrt on my Linksys WRT54G v3. It’s spiffy so far. BusyBox v1.00 (2005.04.23-22:18+0000) Built-in shell (ash) Enter ‘help’ for a list of built-in commands. _______ ________ __ | |.—–.—–.—–.| | | |.—-.| |_ | – || _ | -__| || | | || [...]
What was originally a small issue with the latest KDE packages in Debian turned out to be a bit more than I thought it would be. I ran into the dreaded “Initializing Devices” KDE startup issue. After removing all my KDE related directories in ~, it was still broken. I decided finally it wasn’t worth [...]
I snagged a couple of WRT54Gs from Office Depot. Now it’s time to play with the firmware from OpenWrt. It looks like I have two version 3.0s. Should be interesting.
I wanted to benchmark my 7410 running RAID 5 with 4 120GB Western Digital WD1200JB (Models: 75EVA0, 32EVA0, 00DUA3) on a Supermicro 370DLE in a dedicated 64-bit slot running at 33MHz. I thought I’d compare those numbers with my new 7500-4LP and see what the differences are. I tested with 2.6.10-ac10, 2.6.11-ck2, and later with [...]