Continuation

Huh, yesterday I’ve finished moving the mobygeek.net website to my own server.

I’ve also removed all picture galleries from the website. Don’t know if I’m going to put them back in , should I ?

This move has already fixed some issues with my blog and now it’s running much faster and properly displaying columns, as well as it updates code nicely. However I have found that post which was scheduled on last hosting didn’t get published automagically when it was moved here, so will need to look at that.

next I think is mail and moving registration away, then just checking if all my domains are cool and closing contract with 1 and 1! hurray!

A bit of an update on my systems : somewhere in late November 2009 I’ve decided to rent a server with www.serverloft.com …

I’m still setting things up there, I’m using VirtualBox to host certain functionalities on separate VMs.

So far there are :

• mta1 for incoming mail, running ESVA , love it! (had experience built with that when Importing to VBox)
• web1 for web sites hosting, running Cherokee!

Still need to get my VPN concentrator, Asterisk, Mail Storage moved there from other systems. Not forgetting move my mobygeek.net site as well!

This will allow me to drop my VM in US, as well as remove some of the services from my home server as my Internet access from home is rubbish in a new place.

Well,

the time has come, I will be leaving my current hosting provider www.1and1.com . Why ? I simply see no value in using hosting providers. I am my self working in that industry and that means I know how it works and stuff and because I have my own servers serving my email, vpns, dns for long time now I am just cutting off some unnecessary spendings.

First, my yllq.net domain got transfered to GKG – why ? Cost and they allow IPv6 glue, as well as they are reasonably technical towards customers.

Next it will be firmahrp.com and then mobygeek.net and blackue.net as I still didn’t decided which server to use for WWW hosting.

I’ve been looking to be able to code a bit of RoR while on the go. From a few devices which I have, N810 has the longest battery run time.

So… Google gave me a nice How To from Jon Forrent, it talks about N800 but it’s the same.

I was trying to do all the steps but I just managed to install ruby and sqlite3 packages. After that Gems package installed well but it wasn’t too useful, any attempt at

gem install

or

gem update

nothing worked, left it over the night, nothing happen.

So…

Uninstalled the gem package, downloaded Real Ruby Gems in a zip file ( you will need the unzip package ).

Unzipped the file, went inside the directory. then:

ruby setup.rb --no-ri --no-rdoc

wow it installed something, now doing :

gem update

told me nothing requires update, great, now lets go with rails:

gem install rails

Amazing, installed really quick ( I would recommend not installing the ri and rdoc as well here )

Just created some test rails app and it works!
Now it’s time to find a decent text editor for it and client for Mercurial.

Finally after months I’ve created a vhost on hamerica for hosting Firma HRP website. It no longer shows my munin stats.

I’ve even started some consultations on what they wish to have there.

I’ve installed alfresco on Gentoo, used Gentoo HOWTO . Only major problem which I encountered was with not finding jdbc MySQL driver. I’ve tried to use script from the HowTo, but it wasn’t working.

My Solution was to rebuild jdbc driver ( the script broken it ) ( emerge -av jdbc-mysql ) and then I’ve done a simple find /usr -name jdbc-mysql.jar and linked the file inside tomcats lib ( ln -s `find /usr -name jdbc-mysql.jar` /usr/share/tomcat-6/lib/jdbc-mysql.jar )

It looks like Dilbert Website went Web 2.0. It’s back in ˝BETAˇ stage.

It’s sad that people think that they need Flash  to display colour cartoon strip on a page.

It’s sad that they used a web mastering company which has no clue on what World Wide Web is like and they are blocking display of content just because your web browser is sending ˝not approvedˇ User-Agent string. I’m talking about new animations section. You can easly access the content when you change that string, so there is no technical problem, just mentality one [ what reminds me of RBS and doing the same to Firefox 3].

Grr, hate the Intenet criminals, had to delete old copy of my blog because there was a crack in it.

Welcome to an upgraded wordpress!

Before Xmas, I have decided to learn a bit of Persian language. You know, just to occupy my brain with something other than technology. Today I’ve found to really great website which teaches you the language for free!

Persian language lessons archive 1

Watch out Malcolm! I will bug you very soon !

This is busy period, I am working my ass out and I have not much time for my self.

At least I have manage to get a break mid July and I have uploaded some pictures to my, today fixed, gallery

When I was on holiday, my broadband supplier ( Black Cat Networks ) has been taken over and my superb service will be disrupted as a new company will not provide IPv6 which I rely on. I have subscribed with with AAISP they have strange bandwidth limits … 8-18 workdays … but during that time I am at the office, so not a big problem.