Archive for June, 2012
CSS Media Queries + Me
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Design on June 29, 2012
CSS Media Queries are also well and good after you realise that the problem you’ve been trying to fix comes from being too particular and drilling down to specify paragraph formatting inside the div, but the replacement stylesheet only overrides the container div, not the paragraph formatting. Urgh. At least I’ve got the problem fixed. […]
Cheaping out on EC2 – Downsizing existing EBS volumes
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux, Sysadmin on June 6, 2012
I’m moving a VM from my own server to EC2. I’ve got $50 worth of credit from a Redhat event, so I would like to make use of that. (That, and my AWS account existed before the free tier was introduced, so I’m not eligible for that.) That said, I want to make that credit […]
Removing bloat from Fedora 17 on EC2
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Linux on June 6, 2012
I’m in the middle of trialing EC2, and I’m using the official Fedora 17 images kindly provided by the community. They make a great starting point, because I can then install my needed software. Some of which, though, I consider absolutely crucial. So far, I’ve need to install vim, less, rsync and screen. I can […]
Specifying dom0 RAM in Xen – update
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Xen on June 5, 2012
Another thing from the xen-users mailing list: Apparently the way to specify the dom0 RAM at boot in Xen has changed. You should now specify the maximum memory – dom0_mem=2G,max:2G instead of dom0_mem=2G. Also, a new addition to the Xen Best Practices suggests preventing Xen from auto-ballooning the dom0 memory down by changing autoballoon in […]
Google Apps, multiple domains, and other related things
Posted by Kyle Lexmond in Personal, Sysadmin on June 2, 2012
I’ve decided to actually get around to creating a portfolio site. Bought the domain, but have done… nothing. Oops. First off, email and DNS takes time to propagate, so I decided to get Google Apps set up with that domain to be able to send & receive email from that domain. But I had decisions […]