Monthly Archives: December 2008

Release Lenny!

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Michael Schurter

An article from El Reg about MySQL ends with a great quote: This is the same lesson that Debian hasn’t yet learned from Ubuntu: fast and good-enough always beats slow and correct. Release Lenny now! Update: Yay! It appears Debian … Continue reading →

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Web Server Quandary

Posted on December 27, 2008 by Michael Schurter

Apache was probably the first Linux application I learned how to configure. However, I’ve gotten a bit frustrated with it recently… The Problem A memory leak. Apache is eating up memory so quickly that I need to restart it every … Continue reading →

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My Past 24 Hours

Posted on December 22, 2008 by Michael Schurter

Sunday, December 21st The plan is the not chance the weather and stay overnight at the airport tonight to make sure to catch our 6:30am flight Monday morning. Here’s what happened: 9:00am – 4:45pm – Packing, checking Trimet service alerts … Continue reading →

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Fixing Gnome Notification’s Popup Location

Posted on December 1, 2008 by Michael Schurter

Gnome notifications popup in the lower left corner of your desktop by default* which constantly annoys me. I usually have a terminal open in the lower left corner, and having my work covered by notifications is quite annoying. Luckily the … Continue reading →

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