Decided to set up a new WordPress installation for my attempt at a PhotoBlog and managed to run into a few issues; some confusing… others a little easier to resolve. Here’s a quick round up, for the benefit of others who may run into these “problems” and would like to lose as little hair as…
Category: Gentoo
We’re Moving!!!
That’s right, ladies and gents!!! biatch0.net and all related sites will be making a short move (literally) of about 10m-15m tops… to a different rack. Everything will likely be down for a couple of days (possibly a week tops, hopefully). Just a quick heads up… in case people start panicking and believe the end is…
ZoneEdit -> XName, ZoneEdit -> DynDNS -> DNS-O-Matic
I forgot my ZoneEdit password… and ZoneEdit has a completely shit password retrieval system. So, I moved to XName. ZoneEdit had free dynamic DNS that DD-WRT could handle. XName does not. I used DynDNS for a day… but having myhostname.homelinux.net didn’t sound as cool as myhostname.biatch0.net. After a lot of searching, a lot of middle…
PHPMyAdmin/MultiUsers/MySQL
Just a useful note for anyone trying to setup the combo above (myself included for future reference): turns out that % as a hostmask doesn’t include localhost
emerge -uDv world
Finally updated world after about 2 years of semi-updated packages. Great success.
more nagle+delayed acks
Been doing some “work” on getting around these 2 problems in relation to WoW. My initial intent was to connect to my proxy in Jaring via stunnel/dante-sockd… and having iptables reroute the traffic through socat which would disable Nagle’s and set tcp-nodelay to true. For some strange reason (or maybe I just suck at writing…
kernel, nagle and delayed acks
Recompiling your kernel remotely is bad. Gentoo decided to remove the driver for my eth0 (which wasn’t in use) making my eth1 into eth0… in the process breaking netmount and all related daemons! The new kernel also decided to break apache… so I recompiled that… which broke PHP… which I recompiled… but it depended on…
emerge -udv world
I haven’t done this for ages on my server. After it died yesterday under the most mysterious of circumstances, I am seriously considering doing an emerge world. I’m just worried that everything will fall apart; especially the qmail installation. Qmail is now marked as deprecated in portage; replaced by netqmail. Only one way to find…
ipw2200 rf_kill pains
I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome the ASUS m5200e to my extended family of electronic gadgetry. Sleek, sexy machine you!!! Well, anyway, Gentoo loaded like a champion on this machine; 2006.1 liveCD recognized everything including the Ricoh MMC/SD/MS reader and the IPW2200BG wireless module (which has to be coaxed into working with a…