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Google.com was offline today for at least several minutes. Maybe longer. Not sure if this has to do with their big data center move or whether the apocalypse is upon us. It will be interesting to learn what really happened.
Put the entire Wikipedia on an iPod.
My data center just raised my colocation pricing by 50% starting 4/1. Wow. That completely blows my mind. I liked that place but am looking for another provider now.
Multi-touch interaction experiments. Check the top right video. Nice interface!
While not directly related, here's a recent Apple patent application for a gesture controlled user interface. Seems a lot more interesting in light of the video above.
Just pointed the datamantic dns at the new server. I had dialed the time to live on the old entry down to 300 seconds, but I only did that 24 hours ago, so I may get a little bitten with a delay (the old time to live was 48 hours.) But I'm just too anxious to wait. Fingers crossed.
Wow. What a fun day. All sorts of problems but I managed to sort them all out. I feel like I am starting to get good at this (I know, saying that is asking for trouble!)
Upgraded to PHP 5, but then mysql was not working from PHP. This pretty easy to solve but took me most of the day. Moral of the story is: errors are your friend - check the error logs. Getting a definite error is your biggest possible clue. When restarting apache it was telling me (via the apache error_log) that it couldn't load the module mysql.so because the file didn't exist in /usr/local/php4. Of course it didn't, since I just upgraded to PHP 5. Poking around a bit showed that the module was really in /usr/local/php/modules, so a quick edit to php.ini to set the correct location, and then another restart of apache, and everything was fine.
You wouldn't believe how long it took me to figure that out. I thought the yum install was the culprit. On the plus side I learned a bunch while sorting it out.
Anyway, outside of a few problems like that things are going very well. Should see some real progress this weekend.
Connectivity problems solved! Sometimes it pays to ask.
Copying this site to the new server now. It's bigger than I thought. I think I'll put it up on the new server (leaving the "real" site where it is for now) just to get a handle on all the steps involved in migrating.
Still having some connection issues. It's a little better as of yesterday, but now I can't get my email tunnels to work, so I'm reluctant to use my regular accounts (I'm reluctant to give away those passwords on the open network I am on.) But gmail is secure (as secure as https that is, which is probably okay for this situation.)
Actually, gmail is interesting. They only send your password over https, and then you view all your messages unencrypted. But you can encrypt the entire session just by going (after you log in) to the address bar and manually replacing the http:// with https://. Just do that once, and then your entire gmail session will be encrypted, even as you go back and forth between pages.
So, the point is, please use jmbassett at gmail if you want to get me. I'm still checking the others, but maybe only once a day or so when I make it out of here.
Successfully installed the mail server. That's the last of the drudgery. Should be pretty smooth sailing from here.
[root@ash ~]# qmailctl stat
clamd: up (pid 1957) 54 seconds
imap4: up (pid 1945) 54 seconds
imap4-ssl: up (pid 1953) 54 seconds
pop3: up (pid 1961) 54 seconds
pop3-ssl: up (pid 1949) 54 seconds
send: up (pid 1947) 54 seconds
smtp: up (pid 1955) 54 seconds
spamd: up (pid 1964) 54 seconds
clamd/log: up (pid 1958) 54 seconds
imap4/log: up (pid 1960) 54 seconds
imap4-ssl/log: up (pid 1954) 54 seconds
pop3/log: up (pid 1962) 54 seconds
pop3-ssl/log: up (pid 1952) 54 seconds
send/log: up (pid 1946) 54 seconds
smtp/log: up (pid 1956) 54 seconds
spamd/log: up (pid 1959) 54 seconds