Slicehost

I've been trying out various Xen providers.

I have to say slicehost seems to be really good right now.

Of course they are new so we'll have to see how they fair over the next few years.

Back

I'm back to write more info.

Busy day today - ran into problems with an upgrade to ESX 3.0

Xen upgrade

I changed the production box from FC5beta1 to FC5 on Sunday. Now I can use normal Xen kernels. Previously the beta1 Xen snapshot had some kind of binary incompatability so I was forced to use only Fedora binary or hand compiled kernels to run the guests.
It went very well except I didn't know that Fedora minimal install required discs 1 and 2 now so I had to drive home in the middle of the upgrade. Kind of a hassle.

What the heck is wrong with a single disc minimal install?

Webmail

I tried out Roundcubemail - it's an newer webmail IMAP client written in PHP.

It's pretty damn slick for a beta.

I'm going to look into contributing Japanese strings - they aren't in there yet although the client has no issues dealing with Japanese content in UTF-8.

So long Linode

I moved the blog from Linode today.  It's been a good run but time to move on.

FC5 Xen

Got FC5beta2 Xen guests working tonight. I got caught by something stupid - the FC5guest kernel xennet support was built as a module. I like to get modules working last but in this case I needed to get them going first, build the initrd, and alias eth0 to xennet in order to get networking started during boot. :-(

Bad weekend - sick

Happy new year - I've been sick since Friday. It's seems about once a year I get an unbelievable fever including hallucinations. Friday was that day. I spent the afternoon in bed from 3-11pm.

I've always believed this "I only get sick once a year" myth. It'll be interesting to see how that pans out by looking back at this

Saturday was better - spent the day with Emi and Ayaka.

Today (Sunday - New Years Day) - Emi and Ayaka went a party at some friends house. I decided not to go because there are a lot of kids there and I don't want to give this to anybody else. I'm catching up with some Mythtv and getting ready to fix the tv in the basement.

So long Serendipity

I just blew away the Serendipity install. Felt pretty good to get a clean transition to a new product.

I used the RSS importer and it worked pretty well. I made a few category changes during the transition so I just had to tweak those and I was all set.

Long live open source where we get to choose which products to use without being tied to the past by some arbitrary file format.

I just want to say thanks to the Serendipity developers - it's a great product.

Back to Wordpress

I'm back on Wordpress, following the 2.0 release.

I'd been playing with the betas and release candidates and was fairly impressed with what I saw.  It's still clunky but it's definitely a step up from Serendipity at this point.

Domain 0 allocation is too small for kernel image

I've been battling this bug for about two weeks.

Then I spotted this gem on #xen

11:04 < tab> it's about the fedora xen kernels
11:05 < tab> and the memory issue
11:05 < tab> did you changed the ld layout of the kernel ?
11:06 < riel> no, 2.6.13 did
11:06 < tab> yes, but did you tweak it to be able to run xen ?
11:06 < riel> I tried to
11:06 < riel> but it's still not getting linked right
11:06 < tab> because I use to have the same problem in the early 2.6.13 port
11:06 < tab> used*
11:06 < riel> how did you fix it ?
11:06 < tab> you have to redefine LOAD_OFFSET to 0 in page.h
11:07 < tab> I'm almost done with 2.6.13 anyways, and I will upgrade the repository soon I think
11:08 < riel> ohhhhhh
11:08 < riel> too bad Fedora is on 2.6.14-rc3
11:08 * riel is seriously considering not having Xen in Fedora again until xenolinux is upstream

To Wordpress or not to Wordpress

I've been thinking about trying Wordpress again.

I ran WP version 1.2 for several weeks last year right after Emi started using Movable Type. It didn't seem that impressive at the time.

This year when I started blogging again I just picked Serendipity because I followed a link from Slashdot. I felt at home right away using Serendipity so I guess it's just the inevitable geek urge to play with different tools that do basically the same job.

Serendipity

I just noticed now that the URL insert feature in Serendipity is busted when using Safari on Mac OS X.

Per the s9y forums it's a known issue and they appear to be laying the blame on Safari since Firefox on Mac OS X works correctly.