Happy New Year everyone, Welcome to 2005!
Comments(5)So router status. Bandwidth up from last month but sitting at about average.
[root@core root]# ipacsum -t "last month" -f RED -z
IP accounting summary
Host: core.dalegroup.net / Time created: 2005/01/02 16:49:03 EST
Data from 2004/12/01 00:00:00 EST to 2004/12/31 23:59:59 EST
Incoming RED (PPP) Direct : 8M
Incoming RED (PPP) Forward : 3G
Outgoing RED (PPP) Direct : 11M
Outgoing RED (PPP) Forward : 3G
Last month for this website we had the following stats:
Pages: 11686
Unique visitors: 401
Bandwidth (viewed, not bots): ~130MB
Forums went a bit crazy, we did 1GB last month. About 250mb was done on the last day. For that month we had 3514 unique visitors and 18875 pages. I think this was caused by the worm that has been around for the last month.
An interesting thing. I was looking in my blog stats and I had a visitior from an XBOX. The stats show: XBoX_64_(NVidea_GForce_3_Architecture), funky.
Also I’ve had the longest personal internet uptime, currently at 37d 18h 44m 23s. Good job iinet.
My first CD backup for the year was done today. I now have 15 CDs with (mostly) monthly copies of my server. Still lets hope nothing dies. I might need a new hard drive soon anyway.
Comments(1)The A La Menthe - Nikk Furie
Comments(6)We’re now into the new year and it is about this time that I need to start thinking about my plans for the year.
Currently I am focusing on work, but more importantly going to uni. I spent another day yesterday having a last look at the two main uni I want to go to, UTS and UNSW. My first preference is Computer Science at UTS, then Computer Science at UNSW and then Computer Engineering back at UTS. Although I’m really hoping I get into my first choice.
UTS seems to have a better wireless network anyway! :p
They run their wireless unencrypted but use a IPsec tunnel into the network. When I sat down with my laptop I picked up 3 UTS access points, cool! :)
Anyway. On to another topic, my blog site.
As you can see there hasn’t been any changes and we’re now in to the new year. I wasn’t really expecting to have anything done by then. There has been some work on it and a basic site is running but there is still lots to do (no admin panel yet). I am going on holidays mid jan and will be taking my laptop to do some development work on it.
One section that needs work is trackback. Trackback is a really easy target for spammers has there is no protection on it what so ever. And because of the way it works you cannot add spam filtering to it until the data is in the database.
Photomatt has a post about it here: http://photomatt.net/2005/01/05/trackback-spam/
it also seems that stuart’s and josh’s site have been badly hit (add to that, so has matthews). Damnit!
This doesn’t look good. From what I can tell my site hasn’t been hit, although it wouldn’t be hard. It has the same protection (or lack of) as wordpress.
Trackback may have to be disabled altogether. Pingback is meant to be somewhat better but I haven’t looked much into it. None of my stuff supports it…
There are a few more things I want to talk about although I’ll but that into another post later.
Comments(2)Connected (41d 11h 14m 8s)
Wow longest time ever…
Comments(1)Upgrading PHP.
In the last few weeks I’ve done many upgrades of PHP on different operating systems. Windows 2003, Linux Redhat 7.1, FreeBSD 4.10 and Mac OS X 10.3.
The process for the *nix systems is all pretty similar; so I thought I write down how I upgrade these operating systems.
Please note I assume php is already installed on the system.
First find out what compile options your version of php is running with. The way I do this is through a simple built in php function.
Create a php file on the server with the following inside:
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
When you load up the page in a web browser you should see near the top something called: Configure Command.
Next to this will be something like (taken from my Mac OS X box):
’./configure’ ’–prefix=/usr’ ’–mandir=/usr/share/man’ ’–infodir=/usr/share/info’ ’–with-apxs’ ’–with-ldap=/usr’ ’–with-kerberos=/usr’ ’–enable-cli’ ’–with-zlib-dir=/usr’ ’–enable-trans-sid’ ’–with-xml’ ’–enable-exif’ ’–enable-ftp’ ’–enable-mbstring’ ’–enable-dbx’ ’–enable-sockets’ ’–with-iodbc=/usr’ ’–with-curl=/usr’ ’–with-config-file-path=/etc’
This is the configuration options php was installed with. Head over to php.net and download the latest version of php. I still recommend php4 for production stuff.
Then run the following commands on the file.
gunzip phpfilename.tar.gz
tar -xvf phpfilename.tar
then CD to the new folder made and run ./configure with the options you found above.
Then MAKE, and then MAKE INSTALL.
Stop Apache and Start it again. Everything should be happy jan.
Please note this is just for upgrading from 4.3.x to a newer 4.3.x if you’re doing bigger jumps you may need to change the php.ini file and also maybe where apache loads the php modules from.
Enjoy your up to date versions of php :)
Comments(1)But welcome to the community. Enjoy your stay, and I hope you don’t get too much spam. ;)
Go here now people,
His server was only screwed for a few hours. :)
Comments(0)If I am silent then I am not real
But if I speak up then no one will hear
If I wear a mask there’s somewhere to hide
Silence is Golden
I have been broken
Safe in my own skin
So nobody wins
If I raise my voice will someone get hurt
And if I can’t feel then I won’t get touched
If no truths are spoken then no lies can hide
Silence is Golden
Nobody gets in
Safe in my own skin
So nobody wins
Did you hear me speak
Do you understand
Did you hear my voice
Will you hold my hand
Do you understand me
Won’t someone listen
Nobody gets in
My body’s a temple
But nothing is simple
Silence is golden
I have been broken
Something was stolen
Safe in my own skin
Garbage - Silence Is Golden
Comments(2)I’ve been told that my about page is too old. I am no longer 17 and I no longer go to school at SACS. So I’ll have to fix that one up at some stage.
Comments(0)Whoa!
http://blog.dalegroup.net/archive/blog/images/big_cat.jpg
Comments(1)Okay the new about page is up.
http://blog.dalegroup.net/about/
Mmm might try a get a better picture of myself too. Whatever :p
Comments(4)I just installed m0n0wall and wow! This is a fantastic program. I’ve been using Smoothwall Express 2.0 for the last year and a bit but I thought I’d give m0n0wall a try; and I’m glad I did. Very impressive. The outbound filter is great, the captive portal could be really useful and the traffic shaper is very good too. It’s all the features anyone could ever need. Plus it seems to run very quickly. Keep up the great work
http://m0n0.ch/wall/quotes.php
I’ll get around to a review shortly.
Comments(2)Apple released a low-end headless Mac, the Mac Mini. The newest Mac offers the following features:
1.25GHz G4 or 1.4GHz G4 for $US499 (listed at $AU799) or $US599 (listed at $AU949)
6.5 inches wide and 2 inches tall
2.9 pounds
Up to 1GB of Memory supported (comes with 256MB)
ATI Radeon 9200
iLife ’05
Keyboard, Mouse, and Monitor sold seperately
It can be found on the apple site here: http://www.apple.com/macmini/
They have also released the ipod shuffle, a flash based mp3 player. Found here: http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/
The Mac mini looks pretty sexy, and I know of a friend who really wants one. I might look at getting on too. Although it isn’t any faster than my ibook. Still it is a very small sexy little computer.
These things will also run linux and other unix operating systems. Quite a few people are looking to turn these things into mini servers.
Comments(3)A holder page for what is to come:
Comments(2)Comments(1)MOZiE is an extremely light-weight, free Windows application that allows web designers the ability to compare page rendering in Mozilla and Internet Explorer simultaneously.
It’s been a very busy last two weeks and I haven’t really had much time to update this site. Oh well :)
base10solutions now has a seriously nice logo and website that will be put online at some stage.
It looks like when I get back from holidays (I’m going away tomorrow for a week down south somewhere) I’ll be employed to write some crazy COLBOL/VMS plugin for some fax/invoice system. Wonderful. :|
I’ve spent the last hour or so getting my mac ready for doing some development. I have Dreamweaver installed, the latest version of php4. Apache 1.3.33. I installed mysql last night. Today I moved over some database stuff and currently I’m compiling a library needed for mysqlcc to run on my mac. It has taken a while, but everything seems to be working well.
A few days ago I bought a 160gb Seagate hard drive (for $129) to replace the old 6.4gb drive in the server. The drive had all the databases and websites on. I thought it was about time to get something better as I wasn’t sure if the old drive would last for much longer. Lucky for me I didn’t need to reinstall anything, I just did a drive copy late one night. The process was pretty painless.
So now everything is running on a nice speedy hard drive. Cool.
Comments(1)I’m sitting here in some random shop using their ISDN connection. Wow it is dodgy! I thought ISDN was meant to be good (you get what you pay for?!), I was wrong. Dodgy USB connection and Telstra keeps dropping the connection.
I was going to logon to get my UNI results, but that doesn’t come until 9PM not 9AM damn. So I’ll just wait for the SMH tomorrow which has everyone’s results :)
I’ve been at the beach each day. I need to drive anywhere before I can get mobile signal. Doh.
But no it has been very relaxing.
Anyway I better post this before the connection dies again.
Comments(0)In the last two days I’ve seen some pretty crazy weather. Very heavy raining, thunder that shakes the house and fog that slows down your driving. It’s weird!
Comments(5)Over the last two weeks the mail server has had some large spikes in traffic. Most of it is spam or indirectly spam. Most of which has been tagged as spam.
Here is an interesting graph from my mail server:
http://blog.dalegroup.net/archive/blog/images/mail-jan2005.png
I have one of these sitting on my desk: http://www.ssbusa.com/hardware.html
It’s an old ISA card
"PLL-Synthesized World Band
Triple-Conversion Supereterdyne
Radio Communications Receiver"
Freqency Range 0.5 to 1300MHz.
I thought it was pretty cool ;)
Comments(0)http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/index.shtml
Useful.
Comments(0)I installed BIND today. A DNS server. It’s seems really nice and was much easier to setup than expected. I’ve heard that BIND was a nightmare but in fact it is pretty good.
Here is a zone that I have on it currently:
zone "dalegroup.info" {
type master;
file "db.dalegroup";
allow-transfer { 10.0.0.1;67.118.43.92;69.111.250.84; };
};
@ IN SOA ns1.dalegroup.net. mdale.dalegroup.net. (
2005012705 ; Serial
7200 ; Refresh after 2 hours
3600 ; Retry after 1 hour
604800 ; Expire after 1 week
86400 ) ; Minimum TTL of 1 day
; Name servers
IN NS ns1.dalegroup.net.
IN NS ns1.rollernet.us.
IN NS ns2.rollernet.us.
; Addresses
IN A 203.173.26.192
IN MX 0 mwdmeyer.is-a-geek.com.
IN MX 10 mail.rollernet.us.
IN MX 20 mail2.rollernet.us.
localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
ns1 IN A 203.173.26.192
www IN A 203.173.26.192
On another topic I found the following two quotes interesting:
Ever see someone toss a coat on the floor rather than hang it up, and then go back later to hang it up anyway?
Most lazy people create an extraordinary amount of needless labor for themselves and then berate people who have a lot of free time because of their efficiency
and
Comments(1)I’ve noticed that a lot of "messy" people seem to know where everything is. I call it the chaos theory of organization; it can often be easier to remember where things are than to spend the effort to put them someplace. So you just put them where there’s space, and remember where they went.
My wife has what I call the pro-aesthetic theory of organization; if a room or place appears to be neat, it’s organized – even if the stuff is put away without any regard to an organizational structure (eg, related items aren’t in the same cabinet or closet). It’s important for the room to look clean, even if in reality its a highly user unfriendly mode of organization.
When you contrast the former and the latter, it’s an interesting mix – on one hand, you have a visual mess but things are relatively easy to find. On the other hand, you have visual neatness, but things are hard to find since there’s no scheme (other than size and volume) as to where things went.
As far as laziness goes, I’ve known neat freaks that never get anything done because the overhead cost of neatness eliminates their time.
http://skorgrimm.blogspot.com/2005/01/mini-is-new-x.html
Comments(1)I’ve decided to implement a mailing list for support information. This list allows me to send emails about the status of the server(s), if I’m doing upgrades or there is downtime etc.
Before I just had a list of users that I sent emails to, but some people may wish not to receive them or others may wish to get these emails.
The mailing list address is support@dalegroup.net
You cannot send emails to this address it is only for out going emails.
To subscribe, send a blank email to support-subscribe@dalegroup.net (please note this is an automated system).
To unsubscribe, send a blank email to support-unsubscribe@dalegroup.net
If you received a test email today you are already subscribed.
The traffic level of this list is LOW. If you want to setup a filter for this list the subject will contain the text [dg-support]
Comments(2)My brother has his first day of high school today. Good luck! ;)
Comments(1) Copyright © Michael Dale 2004.
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