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Skinny Puppy – The Final Tour
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read moreServer Migration
Howdy Folks! I know it’s been quite awhile since I posted and I apologize for not keeping up with this blog. Now on to the really big news: The server that hosted the majority of our sites is being retired. (Les) We were migrating sites to a newer server. (Todd) We are now migrating sites to the newest server. (Larry) What does this mean for you? Your site will load much faster for all visitors. Your site might go down temporarily as we wipe the dust off and move your site. Your email might not deliver immediately when migrate your...
read morePGP / SMIME
I decided I’m rather sick of updating my SMIME certificate every year so I’ve gone the PGP route now. Especially since the toolset for Mac OS X has matured a bunch since last I used it. If you are a Mac OS X user I highly recommend checking it out (just click the “toolset” link above). You are looking for “GPG Suite” on the site if you have never installed gnupg before. I’ve forgotten all my secret key passwords so I made a new key. You can find it here. Of course you can also just do a...
read moreFor the Web Dev/Designer
About Browsers Latest Nighty Builds So I originally grabbed this from: http://blog.deborniol.com/2010/06/auto-updaters-for-nightly-builds-of-browsers-on-mac-os-x-webkit-chromium-firefox-opera/ And most of the heavy lifting is thanks to the original author! But it was rather old and several updaters didn’t work I did some changes under the hood. Namely all updates works as of 03-02-2013. All Scripts are actually using the current Nightly icons (and are actually installed properly instead of pasting the icon on) Folder created in...
read moreSSH Public Key Authentication
Tonight I disabled password authentication entirely for ssh. If you haven’t set up public key authentication yet feel free to contact me or possibly read a how-to: Like this one. This security setting was a long time coming I’ve gotten rather tired of going through all the “script kiddie” failed login attempts. I apologize if this makes this a bit more inconvenient for anyone but security does / has to come first after all. That’s all for now.
read moreSPeeDY (mod_spdy)
So tonight I rebuilt the spdy module and enabled it server wide. If you happen to be a Google Chrome or Firefox user any SSL enabled sites should feel quite a bit faster on load. Please let me know immediately if you have loading issues or the server has any hiccups (error 500 or cloudflare placeholder pages) via the regular channels (support site / email) Thanks and as always enjoy! 09-05-2012: I have disabled spdy for the time being as it was having issues with our php install.
read moreLeap Second Mitigation
So thanks to Slashdot this evening I became aware of a leap second bug in the kernel: Crash Info here. I have since implemented a newer kernel release (thanks to Debian Backports) we went from 2.6.26-2-amd64 to 3.2.0-0.bpo.2-amd64. I would declare this currently a testing install (haven’t set this kernel to the default boot kernel yet). I have also disabled NTP for the time being until tomorrow to make sure we don’t have a kernel panic. If you notice the server go down at all please rest assured that I’m working on it and...
read moreOpenDNS Issue (Gmail.com)
So if anyone has been having issues emailing to gmail users lately I finally found out why. OpenDNS apparently is having kittens doing proper resolves for any of it. Now if you’re an OpenDNS user you might say my settings were wrong or something. Well I reviewed all my settings (disabled all security stuff and filtering) and I would get a bunch of NXDOMAIN(3) errors. host gmail.com: gmail.com has address 74.125.228.53 gmail.com has address 74.125.228.54 Host gmail.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Whereas using he.net’s dns: host...
read moreSite Launches
So I finally launched the new web site for Inexistence.org around 4 am this morning. Now my site matches the design of it as well so you’ll know off the bat that they are related. I’ve got quite a bit of changes in the pipeline for Inexistence.org users and I’ll be cross posting here and on the main site (it has a blog section now). Don’t forget we’re also on Facebook and Google+. Don’t have a “company” Twitter account but you can always follow mine. More news coming...
read moreThe Move
So the server has landed at my house. All DNS records have been updated and sites should be working immediately. (If I manage your DNS that is.) If you manage your DNS records you need to point it to 24.172.198.146 ASAP. More to come as I’m still working on stuff.. PS. Please note this can take up to 48 hours for the rest of the internet to catch up with the DNS changes. If you’re using OpenDNS right now everything should work for you.
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