It tastes like burning

I moved this and a few other domains to a new server last night. All seems goods for the most part. The only issue I’ve come across so far is that the photo gallery is not working. I will have to deal with it tonight.

[Now sold]

It’s time for me to part with this device. I bought it in Oct 08 and have hardly used it. I just recently updated it to the latest Maemo release. It’s in great condition and I still have the box and everything that came with it.

I will also throw in the the additional 2gb micro sd card I bought for it and its adapter.

I’m asking $180 $170. I will ship it for free anywhere in the US.

If your interested, contact me via this form or DM on twitter. I will sell on a first come, first served basis. If I get no takers, I will post to craigslist.

Here’s some photo’s I took this morning.

I can’t help but wonder, but with all these companies announcing massive layoffs, are they doing it because they need to. Or are they using the current economic downturn as an excuse to trim the fat.

Is the server that is hosting my wordpress blog required to have an FTP server running in order to use the automatic update feature?

I recently moved this domain to a VPS with linode.com and one of the big things I want is ‘NO FTP SERVER’. I do all my transfers to and from the server using scp.

I refuse to add an ftp server for this one nice feature. Guess I need to find out if one is required, or if there are alternatives, or do I just have to upgrade my plugins the old fashion way.

From my wiki:

http://www.cdavis.us/wiki/index.php/Install_the_Dust_theme_on_Arch_Linux

As a non-smoker, I’m not the one who should suffer. I will be voting YES on the smoke-free workplaces referendum on November 4th.

More info: http://breathefreekenosha.googlepages.com/homepage

A client of mine, whose has about 5 Blackberry users contacted me early yesterday morning in a panic. They were reporting that no one was receiving emails on their blackberrys anymore, and that it’s been happening since last Friday. Here’s the back story, on Thursday of last week I promoted one of their servers to a domain controller as we’re getting ready to decommission an older server. So the client was quick to blame my changes for the blackberrys stopping to work. Now this client does not run a blackberry enterprise server, and I really had no idea how they communicating with the Exchange server. I’ve heard they connected through Outlook Web access, and OWA was working fine.

I spent the majority of Monday digging through server log files searching for anything that could be causing the issue. We rebooted every server and their Cisco, and the Blackberrys still were not getting email. My onsite contact was freaking out because the blackberry users are all upper management and she was under a lot of pressure to get them working again as all the users were traveling and were relying on the phone for email. At some point in the afternoon, she asked if I could revert the changes I made to the one server. I told her that I didn’t believe the issue was caused from my change and I didn’t think it would be wise to demote the server back to a member server. As the day ended, we got new reports from the users that their email was working until sometime Saturday morning. Now I was more confident it wasn’t because of my changes. I told her I would come onsite the next day and work with one of the blackberrys and blackberry support and get it figured out.

So today I drive an hour to their office and with blackberry in hand begin looking in to how they are setup. Find that the email setup happens through a blackberry website that is particular to their provider. While in this setup, there is an ‘Advanced Settings’ area, and that is where I found the issue. I find a form that has their OWA URL, except that it was wrong. The URL that was listed was almost right, but was simply missing an s, as in https://. Once I added the s and saved it out, they phones started syncing again. I have their OWA requiring and SSL connection and it has been that way for a long time, which makes me ask, what happened? Did the URL in the setup change for 5 users on 3 different providers? Or was that address always missing the s, but it was smart enough to redirect to the https page and that broke on Saturday? Regardless of what it was, it wasn’t my fault or related to promoting a server on their network.

It’s sad that my last post is almost two months old.

Here’s my 5 year old daughters, Jennifer and Kaitlyn singing along to Beat On The Brat by the Ramones.

They get off to a little bit of a rough start but eventually get in to the groove.

My girls sing the Ramones from Chad Davis on Vimeo.

What is Gwibber? Well, quoted from their website:

Gwibber is an open source microblogging client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK. It supports Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Facebook, and Digg.

I only learned of this app ths morning, but was interested in checking it out because if it’s new support for identi.ca.

I’ve constructed a quick HOWTO about getting it installed on Arch Linux, but I’m sure the instructions could be modified easily enough to get it working on most distros.

Howto: Installing Gwibber on Arch Linux

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