2012-01-23:
Why is almost all referrer spam I get russian?
2012-01-17:
The only remaining thing I still missed after the new server install was a text-only usenet reader. In the past I've used slrn, but I have not been able to find a prebuilt slrn rpm in any of the standard Scientific Linux 6 or Enterprise Linux 6 repos, and satisfying the build requirements of the slrn source rpm turned out to be problematic. Instead I was recommended to use alpine. That worked and made me a bit nostalgic (pine was the first email client I ever used), but alpine had enough things bugging me that I started missing slrn again.
Time for another attempt to build slrn. First minor stumbling block is that building slrn requires inews. There is no inews source rpm. Instead inews is built from the inn source rpm. Picking the newest inn source rpm (intended for Fedora 17) led to rather a lot of dependency problems. Building the older inn 2.3.5-5, on the other hand, was easy. The last hurdle was that one of the source rpms tried to link to libdb 4.2, instead of the installed version 4.7, but that was easily solved with a symlink. Now, with slrn installed there is no longer anything I miss from the old server.
2012-01-08:
Today the new implementation of the old auto-updating fractal gallery has come far enough so I can activate it again (according to the logs I turned the old version off in 2007). This is a complete re-write from scratch, partially as a test of Eclipse CDT. In the past I have often not bothered with an IDE and stuck to using an editor and gcc in a terminal window, but the more I use Eclipse the more I like it (yes, I know I'm late to the party).
2011-12-31:
The server switch-over is now complete. Faster hardware and a new distro :-D
Everything looks good so far, although there are a couple of minor things I still miss (jmacs and slrn). Gnome also seems to be a bit screwed up in this install, but since this will run as a server I will almost never be logged in to X, so I don't really care.
Happy new year!
2011-12-28:
Today I've worked a bit more with the new server replacement. Turns out I don't like Debian very much. Next stop - Scientific Linux.
Making a bootable USB out of the Scientific Linux LiveDVD iso resulted in a kernel panic, but I did have more luck with the bootable USB made from the LiveCD iso instead. The OS is now installed, but more testing is needed until I know if I like it or not. Looks promising so far, though.
2011-12-23:
Breaking news! My taste in music doesn't follow a power law distribution!
I've been using last.fm for a couple of years. Spotify and the player in my mobile are also set to scrobble. This has collected a rather large data set that I've been meaning to take a closer look at, but never got around to until now. What I expected to find was that the distribution of plays per artist would follow a power law(obviously), but...
Distribution of plays per artist.
2011-12-19:
The new tiny server has got Debian installed now, but the old server and its successor will have to live in parallel for a while, until all customization and configuration is complete and the switch-over can be done. Won't be any time to complete the process until after christmas, though.
2011-12-16:
I''ve finally received the hardware for the new server that I ordered. Thank you, webhallen, but was it really necessary to wait a full month to tell me that the drive I ordered wasn't in stock and wasn't going to get re-stocked either?
2011-11-13:
I've ordered new hardware for my tiny server. The Intel D525MW mobo should be significantly faster than the old EPIA board that is currently being used. This time I've also decided to give Debian a go, and see if I like it.
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