David Goodwin’s blog
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Migrating an ext3 filesystem to ext4 (Debian Squeeze)
Interestingly (well, perhaps not really) this is very easy. In my case, I’m hoping that the migration will lead to faster fsck times (currently it’s taking about an hour, which is somewhat excessive, each time the server crashes for whatever reason). In my case, the filesystem is /dev/md0 and mounted at /home – change the…
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Debian Squeeze (NFS broken with backports kernel)
Our office server has been running the Squeeze-Backports kernel for some time – without issue – until today. Amongst the things it ‘should’ do, is act as an NFS server for the office computers (giving us a common /home directory). Every so often, NFS breaks for some reason. Perhaps in some way, the NFS server…
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Automated twitter compilation up to 04 December 2012
Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog (i.e. David Goodwin) up to 04 December 2012
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Wanted: Developer with interesting skills…. oh, and it’s for the minimum wage… (Is this a joke?)
Recently on the Twitter the following (attached) image came up – presumably legit, of a job advert. Highlights below. It’s almost like someone cut and pasted two job postings together. The phone number does appear to be legit … so perhaps the advert itself is?
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Weird Akismet behaviour with WordPress (incorrect spam identification)
One of my customers uses Akismet to protect his various blogs from the masses of spam. Oddly torwards the end of last week, Akismet started to identify everything as spam, with no error message being returned on check of spam, and the admin dashboard showing the api key/akismet were happy. I initially thought that perhaps…
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Rubbish CV from recruitment company (rant/moan)
Today I received a programmer’s CV from a random recruiter… Under experience, the most recent entry has a URL provided which points to a login form. From which I can tell nothing. So, that’s pointless/useless and illustrates nothing. The second entry under experience points to a Zend framework based site – “I have designed and…
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Stupid NFS (Debian Squeeze / Ubuntu Precise)
NFS really can be a major PITA. Our office network has been breaking all day. This seemed to coincide with moving more of our computers to gigabit ethernet (removing the 100mbit CISCO 7960 phones which their network had been daisy-chained through – and seemed to cause intermittent packet loss) Here are some tips for others…
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SpamAssassin ruleset to try and catch India based web development spam
At work we keep receiving emails from sales-droids in India who are trying to persuade us to outsource PHP/Android/Java/whatever development to them. Here’s my first attempt at a spamassassin rule to neutralise it – in my case, copy into a something.cf file in /etc/spamassassin/mail, and running over a suitably loaded email results in : Content…
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Automated twitter compilation up to 26 September 2012
Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog (i.e. David Goodwin) up to 26 September 2012
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Automated twitter compilation up to 17 August 2012
Arbitrary tweets made by TheGingerDog (i.e. David Goodwin) up to 17 August 2012
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