Category: Wayback Retrieval
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I’m a twit
Note to self, when testing backup software that needs a gigabit link to get full performance, use the gigabit card for the network connection, not the 100 Mbit/s card. I’ve been doing speed tests to test the multiplexing of Yosemite’s Backup, and it was capping out at 600 – 650 MB/minute, even with 8 servers…
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Gallery 1 and Lighttpd
Much like Apache, Lighttpd (lighty) has a rewrite module to rewrite URL requests; allowing ‘ugly’ page requests to look nice. Unfortunately, the rule sets I found on the net didn’t work too well with Menalto’s Gallery 1, so I ended up creating my own. The core change from the other rule sets I found is…
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Amy MacDonald
Every now and then, I wander up to Sainsbury’s supermarket during my lunch hour; usually accompanying Mike and Jason (two gents I work with). Mike has a habit of picking up one CD or DVD every week, and one day it rubbed off on me, and I picked up Amy MacDonald’s This Is The Life…
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Site Migration and an Odd Incident
Well, I’ve finally decided to move my site off of my DSL connection and on to a VPS. I’ll be running regular backups with a tool like rsync-backup to bring any changes back down to my internal systems. For now, mail still comes to my DSL, but the web side has been migrated out to…
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Hurrah for Belkin
Last year, I bought a Belkin bluetooth USB dongle for my Asterisk box (if my mobile is in range, I’m at home), and for the occasional use on my Windows PC for syncing contacts to the phone. It never worked right, and I attributed it to the Linux BT stack, the USB 1.1 port on…
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Ghost – say what?
I did a disk capacity check a few days ago, and found to my surprise that of my 320 GB RAID, only 60 GB was free. So, a pair of 500 GB drives have been ordered, and I’ll need to migrate my whole system from the 320 to the 500 array (and use the 320…