nginx testing
Posted by in Sysadmin on August 27, 2012
As part of my web optimization interest, I’ve been looking into alternatives & add-ons for the traditional LAMP stack. The most obvious thing I’ve found is replacing Apache with Lighttpd or nginx. nginx seems to be more updated (based on what I’m remembering of a cursory web search a while ago), so I’m focusing my […]
Stripping image metadata in Python
Posted by in Programming on August 27, 2012
Currently, as part of my file deduper, I’m opening images, copying the image data to a new file, and saving that file.This is done using the Python Imaging Module, or PIL. I’m actively using an updated fork of it called pillow. However, I’ve since discovered pyexiv2, something that says it allows the “access of … […]
Rebuilding a partition table after failed resize
Posted by in Sysadmin on August 27, 2012
So. When I decommissioned my NAS, I moved stuff off the drives incrementally. My RAID5 media partitions were the first to get nuked, and I reformatted that partition on one of the drives as an NTFS partition, for use on my desktop. I then moved my pictures off the RAID 6 onto that NTFS partition, […]
Cheap hosting
Posted by in Sysadmin on August 27, 2012
I’ve perpetually been on the lookout for cheap hosting. Price’s the reason I’ve been hosting my stuff with Dreamhost for the past few years (going on 6 years!), and is the reason I’m going to be taking advantage of MaxCDN’s ‘free’ 1TB of CDN bandwidth this week. (Reasoing being that I don’t have much use […]
HLDS on EC2
Posted by in Uncategorized on August 16, 2012
Update Jul 2014 – use the shiny new SteamCMD tool. Also, I started using DigitalOcean instead of EC2 (marginally cheaper, incredibly easier to setup) Create a Instance – spot works Install wget, tar, ncompress – depends on your distro, fedora 17 by default didn’t come with this (which, btw, is WTF?!) Also, screen to run […]
I’m annoyed at Crashplan now
Posted by in Sysadmin on July 31, 2012
I’ve been using crashplan for the last 10 months – the combination of low price, family pack of 10 computers and Windows & Linux support means it beat out BackBlaze for my online backup of choice. However, I’ve run into multiple problems with it, all in one day.
Plesk, Updating CentOS & sftp-server
tl;dr – Either a plesk update or CentOS update borked an OpenSSHd install such that the sshd_config was pointing to an sftp-server that didn’t exist where it was looking for it, but existed in two other locations. Fix was to update the sshd_config while investigating the possibility of removing the duplicate install.
CSS Media Queries + Me
Posted by 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
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 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 […]