Colin Charles Agenda

Caught bits of Freaky Friday, and added it to the to-do list. What was fun was She’s the Man. Realized something about myself recently: I seem to be more familiar with the cinemas in Hobart as well as the local grocery outlet (Coles, if you must know) there. Its quite shocking.

I decided to play with ISPConfig. It seemed to stop installation when it couldn’t find the “quota” package. Set it up. Add a new “hosting plan”. The frames break, so I hit the X, and it logs me out. Not very intuitive. To get things going, you need to create a client (its kind of a bummer, if I’m the client for all the sites, right?). Then I try to add a web host, for an email user, and find that the username comes up, as *drumroll*, web1_username!

So upon realizing that this wasn’t the solution for me, I attempted to go ahead and uninstall it. Only to be faced with this funny error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /root/ispconfig/uninstall on line 149
Connected successfully

So, I guess this is what a partial deinstallation feels like. Does anyone know what the security implications of running an app like ISPConfig will garner?

Ruby on Rails is hot technology. Its got the essence of Web 2.0 written all over it, right?

Seeing that it supports MySQL out of the box, we like it. We of course want to enhance our support of the Ruby on Rails team, and make sure the RoR users have a rocking time.

As a consequence of this, I’ve been playing with RoR, and will definitely write up more thoughts here at some stage. This is just a quick note to mention that I’d be going to the Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, from April 22-23 2006. Anyone else plan on being there?

No, we didn’t forget about Make MySQL 5.1 Rock contest. We were just migrating our bugs database, and going through a little teething problems everytime a Monday hit! (yes, I’ve not been taking them for myself in the last two weeks!) The good news is that, you get an additional fortnight to win yourself an iPod Nano.

This week’s winner is none other than Mike Kruckenberg. He’s submitted a bunch of bug reports, in relation to MySQL Cluster (another hot topic these days), and one that caught my eye was a critical server crash (mysql#18603). He also blogs about his day spent with MySQL 5.1, which is a fun read.

If that’s not enough, Mike is also an invited member of the highly esteemed MySQL Guilds, and he’s co-written an excellent book: Pro MySQL. If you haven’t already read it, go buy it already.

Thanks for making MySQL 5.1 rock, you deserve the iPod Nano!

Caught Alex and Emma, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, and Hawking. Then in the cinema, Memoirs of a Geisha - good show, I highly recommend it (even though cinemas probably stopped playing it all world round!). On the plane ride back, I caught Corpse Bride (amazing, great stop motion animation with regular digicams). I saw most bits of In Her Shoes but it sure didn’t keep me awake. There, movies I saw last last month. Thats surprisingly little. Last month, caught Date Movie and Big Momma’s House 2. And then the ever funny Pink Panther (go watch it!). And thats it. I think somethings wrong in the “life” department.

Blast from the past:
drwxr-xr-x 16 byte byte 4096 Jun 21 2004 linux-2.4-benh/

Thats me trying to clean up space in ~/, on my desktop. My last FC-2 box (the desktop) needs to move to FC-5 soon.