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xen vcpu pinning defaults aren’t ideal

September 1st, 2009 Chris Ganderton No comments

I noticed an oddity the other day with a xen Domain0 host we have. There’s a cron scripted job that verifies the RPM database and the RPM’s that are installed on the system, for some reason this job failed, but kept the process open, and kept spinning around trying to do it’s job. Now, I [...]

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TanTan flickr photo gallery broken after upgrade to WordPress 2.3

October 27th, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

So I realised that the admin part of the Flickr Photo gallery plugin I use (which is at http://www.thefraggle.com/flickr/) was a bit broken after upgrading wordpress to v2.3. It appeared to work with the configuration I had set previously. However, when on the options page for the plugin, it was complaining of not being able [...]

Flickr is my new favourite toy

October 20th, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

Until recently I hadn’t been taking that many shots, and had just been uploading the odd photo to deviantArt. This is all good and well, but it isn’t really suited to making proper sets of images, say from a shoot at a gig, or other event. This is when I decided to give Flickr a [...]

cheap portable hard disks a go go

June 21st, 2007 Chris Ganderton No comments

I decided to buy a portable hard disk this week for my trip to germany, so that I can ensure I don’t run out of CF space. It’s a vosonic vp2160, and at £109 for a 60gb model I’m pretty happy. It happily reads my CF card fresh from the camera, and copies over all [...]

Virtual domains in exim4

June 14th, 2007 Chris Ganderton 1 comment

I’ve been using exim for a while with virtual domain support, and thought it be best to document what I did somewhere. For a long time I wondered how I might actually support virtual domains in exim 4 and held off by just dumping all mail from all domains into my mailbox (how gosh darn [...]

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