http://darrylclarke.com Random musings from a jaded coder who just needs a hug. Mon, 21 May 2012 01:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://darrylclarke.com/2011/12/22/the-switch-apache-mod_php-to-nginx-php-fpm/ http://darrylclarke.com/2011/12/22/the-switch-apache-mod_php-to-nginx-php-fpm/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:29:43 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=713 File this under “another thing I should’ve done ages ago.” I decided that I should explore the world of Nginx as a web server since many people have been telling me it’s good. And all I can say is holy shit, it’s good. The setup was simple and after a few idiotic mistakes on my [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2011/12/22/the-switch-apache-mod_php-to-nginx-php-fpm/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2011/08/04/you-want-us-to-be-secure/ http://darrylclarke.com/2011/08/04/you-want-us-to-be-secure/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:32:44 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=630 But you make it so complicated. From a technical standpoint, I understand how simple it is to create certificates for SSL/TLS and put them into configs and use ‘em. From a user standpoint, I can not understand the who/what/when/where/why as to the whole security industry and being so damn complicated. So many SSL providers out [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2011/08/04/you-want-us-to-be-secure/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2011/04/29/ubuntu-sharing-is-caring/ http://darrylclarke.com/2011/04/29/ubuntu-sharing-is-caring/#comments Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:11:32 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=601 Over the last 24 hours, since the release of Ubuntu 11.04, I’ve managed to upload over 200GB on the torrents.  Here’s a little graph of my bandwidth use.  I’m sure this is just a drop int he bucket.  It’d be interesting to see how much other individuals upload during the same release time. I don’t [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2011/04/29/ubuntu-sharing-is-caring/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2009/10/17/i-finally-upgraded-to-debian-5/ http://darrylclarke.com/2009/10/17/i-finally-upgraded-to-debian-5/#comments Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:37:41 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=243 On my production web server, I’m kind of a crazy fool.  I often do things that make people cringe and scream and say “what the hell are you doing?” One of those said things is doing a distribution upgrade on-the-fly of the OS.  Since the installation of my server some three and a half years [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2009/10/17/i-finally-upgraded-to-debian-5/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2009/06/26/replacing-a-live-system-raid-on-the-fly/ http://darrylclarke.com/2009/06/26/replacing-a-live-system-raid-on-the-fly/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:51:18 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=206 Well, this is one of those crazy fun things that I had to attempt. My old system drive consisted of two 80 GB IDE drives in a mirror configuration. Pretty standard, but they were getting sluggish and I happen to have a few 320GB SATA drives doing nothing. This is not a tutorial. This is [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2009/06/26/replacing-a-live-system-raid-on-the-fly/feed/ 2 http://darrylclarke.com/2009/05/09/ubuntu-904-on-a-dell-latitude-d610-success/ http://darrylclarke.com/2009/05/09/ubuntu-904-on-a-dell-latitude-d610-success/#comments Sun, 10 May 2009 02:34:39 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=180 I had the joy of recovering data from a busted-ass Windows XP installation.  You know, the one where it blue screens no matter what boot process you try with an error about “kernl32.dll” being screwed? Yeah, one of those.  So, I fired up an Ubuntu live CD to test the hardware and figure out if [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2009/05/09/ubuntu-904-on-a-dell-latitude-d610-success/feed/ 1 http://darrylclarke.com/2009/04/23/happy-ubuntu-day-904-released/ http://darrylclarke.com/2009/04/23/happy-ubuntu-day-904-released/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:09:42 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=105 Today, like clockwork, is the day in which Ubuntu issues another release. Get your copy via the always legal BitTorrent here. Happy Ubuntu Day!]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2009/04/23/happy-ubuntu-day-904-released/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2009/04/01/wanda-the-fish-is-dead/ http://darrylclarke.com/2009/04/01/wanda-the-fish-is-dead/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:58:40 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/?p=99 Looks like I neglected her too much.]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2009/04/01/wanda-the-fish-is-dead/feed/ 2 http://darrylclarke.com/2008/09/30/ubuntu-810-alpha-6-on-my-mac-book-pro/ http://darrylclarke.com/2008/09/30/ubuntu-810-alpha-6-on-my-mac-book-pro/#comments Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:18:08 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/2008/09/30/ubuntu-810-alpha-6-on-my-mac-book-pro/ I installed Ubuntu 8.10, Alpha 6 on my Mac Book Pro  (2nd generation) last night to give it a whirl.  I didn’t do anything with bootcamp, just a straight install.  The installer was fine, it went it’s normal route.  When I rebooted it took a while – I guess this is expected when booting an [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2008/09/30/ubuntu-810-alpha-6-on-my-mac-book-pro/feed/ 0 http://darrylclarke.com/2008/04/07/eclipse-and-ubuntu-804/ http://darrylclarke.com/2008/04/07/eclipse-and-ubuntu-804/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:13:21 +0000 Darryl Clarke http://darrylclarke.com/2008/04/07/eclipse-and-ubuntu-804/ I was having some trouble running Eclipse 3.3 Europa on Hardy Heron.  It was unstable, crashing a lot, and hogging way more ram than it normally hogs. Then I realized what I’d forgotten to do on this fresh install.  I forgot to simply ‘sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-6-sun’ and voila, it works like a charm. Eclipse [...]]]> http://darrylclarke.com/2008/04/07/eclipse-and-ubuntu-804/feed/ 0