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b5media Needs New Servers

January 27, 2006 - Comments

I’ve been intimately involved in the server issues over at b5media. Lot’s of issues. Very technical. Needless to say enough is enough. The 6 blogs that are being moved over to the new server are the biggest of the big, generate the most revenue and are losing a huge amount of revenue [...]

b5media: Taking a Hit

January 25, 2006 - Comments

A few of you have emailed me commenting on my distantness lately. Let me explain. I’ve been working on getting a server prepped for b5media. As they continue to grow with leaps and bounds, they were quickly outgrowing their one server.
The point was underscored in the past 72 hours as a lucky [...]

Blow

January 24, 2006 - Comments

So I’m working on configuring a Redhat Linux server.  A particular script I want to setup as a cronjob requires the blowfish encryption module.  I thought that this was a standard module, but apparently it is not installed on this server.  If it was, it would be in /usr/bin/blow.
So, naturally, I hit Google to search [...]

First Day at a New Job

January 4, 2006 - Comments

I’ve been looking for a new job for a few months as I attempt to steady my failing finances. The past week has seen a bit of a flurry on that front.
I interviewed for a job with a local ISP last week. They thought I was overqualified but it was only a part-time [...]

Had a L’il Mishap

December 31, 2005 - Comments

I just made a boo-boo. I was valiantly trying to cleanup my plugins folder in WordPress and issued the deadly:
-bash-2.05b$ rm del2wp *
What I meant to do was run rm del2wp* but alas, I added a space thus deleting ALL of my plugins and not just all the plugins beginning with del2wp…. Sigh.
I’ll let you [...]

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