18 solid hours in the datacenter, growing tired of Coke and stale vending machine pop-tarts.
Porn for Sysadmins
Having a perverse interest in all things sysadmin I sometimes go on google.ca enduced journeys in search of sysadmin blogs/pictures/info etc. I find it’s a neat way to see what my peers are up too, hopefully picking up some new tricks along the way. One of the most openly documented HA website’s I’ve seen in recent memory is wikipedia. They have hours worth of reading regarding their setup as well as admin blogs to detail the day to day problems they encounter. Here are some links to get your reading binge started.
Simple HTTP mp3 server
Looking for a simple mp3 server for your home network? Check out GNUmp3d! I run one at home to stream my CD collection (which I’ve converted to mp3’s) to all the systems in my house. It’s platform agnostic, simple, and light weight. Pretty much any pentium with 32+ mb ram and a nice sized disk can act as a gnump3d server.
Sysop.ca and The Linux Link Tech Show…
I’m proud to announce that I’ve started to mirror the LLTS stream on media.sysop.ca. It’s a show I’ve been listening to for 5 months now and they really seem to be gaining popularity. Hopefully they can deal better with the droves of new listeners they’ve been having. Last week they even had Doc Searls on their show!
PHP Gallery
I know php gallery has been around forever but I just added it to subaruclub.ca this weekend to handle all the media and I’m VERY impressed. I’ve always used IDS and it’s worked well for me but due to the fact that it’s perl/cgi and it resizes on the fly it tends to be quite a resource hog.
Gallery’s upload tools are quite impressive as well. Also the fact that I was able to include the php headers and footers we already had to ‘nest’ gallery was a bonus. The gallery looks almost native to the rest of the site!
One item I noted, ImageMagick lacks support for Jpeg and PNG files by default in FreeBSD. To compile in support for these you need to do the following:
vi /etc/make.conf and add
WITH_JPEG=yes
WITH_TIFF=yes
WITH_PNG=yes
Save and exit
cd /usr/ports/graphics/ImageMagick/
make deinstall clean
make reinstall clean
Once that’s complete Gallery shouldn’t complain.