Monthly Archives: August 2006

Hung Up On Lighttpd, ExecWrap & PHP-CGI

Interesting thing happend today. At about 5 PM I was posting the last article on the site when I noticed that the server started becoming unresponsive. I was at work so there wasn’t much I could do in terms of investigation. See, our network nazis started blocking port 22 a couple years ago when using …

August 29, 2006 – 9:50 pm | By randy | Posted in Home | Comments (0)

Thank God for Akismet

I must say, over the couple of years, I’ve been dealing with spam on daily basis. Not only email spam, but comment spam as well. And it’s gotten much much worse over the past year. Dreamhost (my former hosting provider) tried to implement SpamAssassin but it didn’t really work that well. I was still receiving …

August 29, 2006 – 5:09 pm | By randy | Posted in General Nerdery, Home | Comments (0)

How-To: Lighttpd, ExecWrap, PHP, WordPress & Gallery2 On A Gentoo VPS

Part of my decision to change hosting providers was to expand my knowledge of technologies. I know how to write PHP, SQL and a whole host of other languages. What I was less familiar with was the servers that run them and other parts of a hosting system (mail, dns et al). Switching to a …

August 27, 2006 – 6:20 am | By randy | Posted in Code Chunks, General Nerdery, Home, How-To | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

So Long Dreamhost, I'll Miss You

Well, in light of all the recent mis-haps over at Dreamhost, I’ve moved my domain to another hosting provider. Dreamhost is a great company and I’ve been using them (off and on) since about 1998 when I registered this domain. Remeber NDN? All those great creative websites and ideas (endquote, iDallas, The Fray, et al) …

August 21, 2006 – 2:12 pm | By randy | Posted in General Nerdery, Home | Comments Off