Resolving LSIDs with URL resolvers and CouchDB
Wed, 29/04/09 – 8:29 | Comments

Recently I’ve been looking at ways to solve some of biodiversities’ long standing issues with LSIDs, which are, “Life Science Identifiers are a way to name and locate pieces of information on the web. Essentially, …

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File system full, but why?
Tue, 26/05/09 – 22:23 | Comments

0101010101UPDATE: posted my workaround code below, good feedback already from Ryan (djatoka dev) and I’ll be testing the proper fix on the server soon.
I’ve got a server that keeps filling up its disk space and failing to serve images after it gets to the file system full error message.  First of all let me say, I don’t blame it in the least, if the admin (aka me) doesn’t do enough to secure the server enough disk space to do its job, I say, let me have it.  But after I’ve set the suspect daemon to use a *reasonable* amount of space I stopped thinking of it as the culprit, so when this issue arose again, I looked elsewhere for the cause.  Fast forward to today, the server’s file system filled up again, and refused to serve any more data, again, I totally understand where the server is coming from, if it doesn’t have enough disk space to do its job, it shouldn’t have to apologize to anyone; it’s all on the admin (again, aka, me), but what was going on? Read the whole story »

Four free Linux eBooks
Wed, 29/04/09 – 17:47 | Comments
Four free Linux eBooks

While looking for something else, (which is mainly when I find *other* interesting things) I found an article which included links for four free Linux eBooks. This is a great resource for anyone with …

Red Dwarf: Back to Earth
Thu, 9/04/09 – 4:07 | Comments
Red Dwarf: Back to Earth

The British comedy Red Dwarf has been a favorite of mine for many years, and this year it celebrates its 20th year anniversary.  While they show hasn’t *constantly* been in production this fact is a …

HOWTO: install Fedora-commons repository software on Debian
Tue, 17/03/09 – 20:25 | Comments
HOWTO: install Fedora-commons repository software on Debian

So I’ve been using Fedora-commons for almost a year, first off, no it is NOT the Linux distribution, it is a digital repository used by libraries, museums, etc, worldwide to keep track of their digital …

Röyksopp – Happy Up Here
Mon, 9/03/09 – 1:57 | Comments
Röyksopp – Happy Up Here

I have an older Röyksopp cd, and Norwegian duo has everything you could want in an electronic outfit; driving beats, unobtrusive synthesized vocals topped by happy melodies to rule them.  Of course if the video …

HOWTO: configure MySQL’s my.cnf file
Wed, 18/02/09 – 13:05 | Comments
HOWTO: configure MySQL’s my.cnf file

I’ve gone back and forth over the years configuring MySQL for optimal performance, and while I know I’m not there, I now have a new baseline to build from. From a post called Standard …

HOWTO: serve jpeg2000 images with a scalable infrastructure
Tue, 27/01/09 – 0:47 | Comments
HOWTO: serve jpeg2000 images with a scalable infrastructure

At the Biodiversity Heritage Library, we have replaced a proprietary jpeg2000 image server, that was straining under the load, with a new, open source jpeg2000 server, djatoka. Chris Freeland and Chris Moyers cover the …

01-20-2009 – the end
Sun, 18/01/09 – 23:32 | Comments
01-20-2009 – the end

“I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.“
George W. Bush, Washington DC, 12 May, 2008
* So I did some checking to get a source for this, …

Best music of 2008
Tue, 13/01/09 – 22:25 | Comments
Best music of 2008

It’s time (well, past time, but…) for my yearly list list covering the best music releases of the year, 2008. I continue the trend of discovering more music online through mp3 blogs, and social …

HOWTO: log the user’s IP, not the proxy’s, in nginx access log
Thu, 18/12/08 – 12:55 | Comments
HOWTO: log the user’s IP, not the proxy’s, in nginx access log

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So back in January I had a post about HOWTO: log the user’s IP, not the proxy’s, in Lighttpd access log, but today I switched that system to run nginx (actually nginx has been running …

Daily Digest for 2008-12-16
Tue, 16/12/08 – 23:59 | Comments
Daily Digest for 2008-12-16

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HOWTO: disable IPv6 networking in Debian
Tue, 2/12/08 – 22:45 | Comments
HOWTO: disable IPv6 networking in Debian

IPv6 is ready?
Tonight I did ran netstat (`netstat -plunt`) on my Debian server and saw that I had some ports listening via IPv6.  It’s a shame IPv6 hasn’t caught on as it’s better than IPv4 …

Olbermann’s commentary on Prop 8
Tue, 11/11/08 – 22:44 | Comments
Olbermann’s commentary on Prop 8

The fact that Proposition 8 passed this last week in Califonia is a sad commentary on people’s morays and the discrimination that they still think is ok to pass on to others.  Of course the …

HOWTO: install Ruby on Rails on Debian or Ubuntu Linux easily
Wed, 29/10/08 – 17:07 | Comments
HOWTO: install Ruby on Rails on Debian or Ubuntu Linux easily

In the early days of this blog I used to run it on Typo, which *was* a great Ruby on Rails blogging platform (at one time).  Unfortunately the project stalled (for years) and I ended …

Equal Rights for All
Wed, 29/10/08 – 12:25 | Comments
Equal Rights for All

Here’s a great, recent News of the Weird article,”Roy Hollander filed a civil rights lawsuit against Columbia University in New York City in August, claiming that its “women’s studies” curriculum teaches a religion-like philosophy that …

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