Archive for April, 2012
Defining the dom0 memory limit in GRUB2
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Xen on April 30, 2012
Before I upgraded my dom0 to Fedora 16 (and by association Grub2), I had the dom0 memory limit fixed as an argument in grub.conf. When I upgraded to Grub2, I initially added it manually to the Xen boot command line, but eventually stopped doing that. Today while looking through the xen-users list, I found an […]
Fun with Python and image processing
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Photography, Programming on April 27, 2012
Today I got to work with something I’ve been meaning to for a while – Image processing with Python, in particular the PIL/Pillow library. (Pillow’s a forked, more up to date version of PIL, and it’s in PyPi.) So about 30 minutes after planning and googling and reading the docs, I have a first version […]
One more time…
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Personal on April 26, 2012
Went back to SAFTI today to see people. Can’t say I miss working there, but I do miss the people and the camaraderie. But it was nice to actually sit and talk to people after being in Canada for a month, and only talking to people over a fairly bad Skype connection. Also started polishing […]
Updating phpBB
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on April 24, 2012
I’m one of two people who helps with sys admin tasks for the webcomic Twokinds – astute readers will recognise the comic name because I ended up doing the RSS and archive scripts for Tom too. But recently I decided to update phpBB and the VPS. Get everything up to date wherever possible. The VPS […]
supybot plugin development
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Programming on April 23, 2012
Problems I’ve faced & how I fixed them:
A collection of online font resources
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Design on April 22, 2012
www.fontsquirrel.com/ – dubs itself the “best collection of 100% free commercial use fonts” www.fontspring.com/free – Free fonts from font spring (I am liking Museo Sans. A clean sans-serif font.) www.google.com/webfonts – Makes using @font-face trivial, so I’ll probably end up using this. (Again, Glegoo and Open Sans look nice to me.)
Dropbox API + Python to sync a folder
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Programming on April 21, 2012
One of the more interesting Kickstarter projects that I saw recently is GameStow – software that would sync your saved game files to the cloud, an alternate to Steam Cloud Sync that’s not tied to Steam. I forget where I first saw it (most likely Slashdot or similar), but I fairly ignored it – I’ve […]
Vote powered kickbanning – a supybot plugin
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Programming on April 21, 2012
So… I’m an IRC operator on a fairly well traffic-ed channel (#twokinds on Nightstar, if you care – we’ve been averaging 55 people or so fairly consistently lately), and one of the things which I have to deal with is general malignants, which is generally done by kicking and banning them. Now, I’m not the […]
Developing software – my process.
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Programming on April 20, 2012
I generally don’t have any plans for developing specific software. What I do create is more stuff I find or think would be useful. My Lightroom plugin started from there – I saw that dA published an API, and so I thought about working with said API in Lightroom. Sounded like something fun to do, […]
Cloudflare/Dreamhost: Least surprise, maximum confusion indeed.
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Sysadmin on April 8, 2012
tl;dr – In summary Dreamhost isn’t pointing domain nameservers at Cloudflare. They’re using an system of CNAMEs to redirect people to Cloudflare, hence the necessity of “Add WWW”. Dreamhost is still your nameserver. If you’re using Cloudflare and you’re moving back to Dreamhost, or were using Cloudflare, change your nameservers back to ns1.dreamhost.com and ns2.dreamhost.com to keep […]