Slice renumbering
I guess there’s an advantage to being stuck in the wait queue for slice: I guess I don’t have to re-number, with the slice oldtimers.
For the record: slicehost rocks. I love it.
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RedHat Fails?
So, today I finally decided to get in on the Mugshot goodness. Lots of people I know have been raving about it, so I figured, why not? Should be good.
Much to my surprise, it doesn’t work *at all* with epiphany. Completely fails. No button presses work, no live updates. Works fine in firefox, tho. Come on, RedHat. Support the default browser on one of the two desktops you ship. Pretty please?
Book Review: User Mode Linux by Jeff Dike
Disclosure: I was given this book for free by Prentice Hall, the publishers. There were no actual strings attached, but they did ask that I blog about it. So, I’m blogging about it. If you feel my review was bought, by all means, ignore it.
User Mode Linux, by Jeff Dike, is a great book, if you’re interested in UML. First off, it’s quite accurate and informative. Not surprising, Jeff wrote UML, so he knows more about it than anyone else. But more than that, it’s fun to read. I mostly just read it, but I found myself itching to grab my computer and try things out. Not great, when you’re at the beach without your computer. 
I’d say the book is primarily aimed at people who’ve never used UML, but want to try it for some reason. It starts with quick and easy setups, and works it’s way up to full-fledged virtual servers by the end. Even so, it’s a useful reference, as I was reminded just today.
…
I just realized, when going through old mail, that I’d never actually posted this review. So, here we go again, much later. All the above is true, except that it’s much more usefull as a reference than I first thought. My copy is well thumbed over, and has lived in my computer bag for the past year, or so. Definitley a must get for anyone using UML.
qmailadmin on lighttpd
Hey, google!
Just a note, since you don’t seem to know:
running CGI with lighttpd requires read access to the cgi script/program; However, Gentoo installs qmailadmin go-r, so lighttpd returns 403 Forbidden. The solution is to make qmailadmin readable.
Here’s the mod_cgi.conf file:
server.modules += ("mod_cgi")
alias.url = (
"/cgi-bin/" => var.basedir + "/cgi-bin/"
)
$HTTP["url"] =~ "^/cgi-bin/" {
# disable directory listings
dir-listing.activate = "disable"
# only allow cgi's in this directory
cgi.assign = (
".pl" => "/usr/bin/perl",
".cgi" => "/usr/bin/perl",
"/qmailadmin" => "/var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/qmailadmin",
)
}
Make sure to uncomment mod_alias and this line in lighttpd.conf:
include "mod_cgi.conf"
Finally, run this command on qmailadmin:
chmod go+r /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/qmailadmin
Mental note to self…
When you’re frantically googling and digging through code to figure out why a package with libao support won’t use the alsa backend, even when other libao applications will, check to make sure the ao flag has been enabled for that package.
Cool jewelry
Finally, an cool piece of jewelry.
How romantic is that?
Horde-imp on lighttpd
Having just slogged my way through setting up horde-imp on lighttpd (as opposed to apache…), here is a note:
The default php flags are not sufficient. Horde will run, but you won’t be able to configure it. I added the following flags to php, but I have no idea which ones did the trick:
dev-lang/php bzip2 cgi ctype fastbuild fastcgi force-cgi-redirect gd hash pdo pic posix simplexml soap sockets tokenizer truetype xml xmlreader xmlwriter xsl
I know you need fastcgi and xml; I assume my problem was lack of xmlreader xmlwriter and xsl, since the problem was lack of DOM php support.
Now to set up spam/virus filtering, and my new mail server will be complete…