DNS Outage

July 16th, 2010

My dns provider, freedns.afraid.org, decided to disappear from the internet this morning. You may have noticed that capybara.org services were unreachable.

I’ve moved the DNS over to easydns.com, a professional DNS host. Hopefully they won’t disappear for a long time.

Sorry for the outage, things should be back to normal very soon.

CentOS 5.4 Upgrade

March 16th, 2010

Miso is now on CentOS 5.4.  Rejoice!

The upgrade was painless and nothing should be broken.  If it is, let me know!

Miso’s Home

August 26th, 2009

http://www.flickr.com/photos/iwebtech/3858579603/in/photostream/

More RAM!

August 26th, 2009

Miso now has 3GB RAM. Thanks iWeb, for a great deal on the upgrade.

ANOTHER hard disk replacement

March 30th, 2009

Well, the new drive that iWeb installed failed as well. They put in a new one this weekend, and things should be back to normal. Please let me know if you find any problems!

Hard Disk Replacement

March 24th, 2009

So, the server was getting slow on the weekend. A check of the logs showed that the disk was failing. I filed a ticket with iWeb (our ISP) for them to check it out.

A couple days later (after escalating the ticket and logging in to poke around) they replaced the drive.

The new drive had a fresh OS install, and they connected the drive back to the system so I could recover files from it.

You probably didn’t notice anything other than a few hours of downtime… and everything should be back the way it was. If you’re running into any problems, or find anything missing, just let me know!

Java!

January 26th, 2009

Sun JDK 6u11 and ant have been installed! They should be on your path.

SquirrelMail Features – Filters and Passwords

January 26th, 2009

If you’re getting a lot of spam, you can filter it.  SpamAssassin already detects the spam and clearly tags it for you… You just need to do something with those tags.

  1. Click on Filters in SquirrelMail.  
  2. Click on Add New Rule
  3. Make a rule like this:  Header | Subject | contains| [SPAM]
  4. Choose an action of “discard silently” or “move to folder”
  5. Hit save!

Enjoy!  There are more ways to filter spam… take a look at full header of an email sometime and you can see all of the wonderful headers that SpamAssassin puts in your mail.

I also added a plug-in to let you change your password from SquirrelMail.  You’ll find it on the Options page.  CentOS has some pretty paranoid default password restrictions, and I have no idea how t change them yet.  But you should be able to come up with something more memorable than the random one I generated for you.

Missing Folders in SquirrelMail?

January 21st, 2009

The IMAP migration tool that I used may have left your new mail folders in an unsubscribed state.  If you think you’re missing some folders, log into SquirrelMail, click the Folders link at the top, and use the subscribe/unsubscribe tool to subscribe to all your folders!  You win!

Migration Complete (mostly)

January 21st, 2009

I’ve moved everyone’s files and mail.  You should have everything you had before.  If you don’t, please let me know ASAP.

Sieve (mail filtering) scripts and squirrelmail addressbooks/settings are the last thing I have to migrate.  I just have to figure out how to do it.