Reprocessed, by Matt Patterson

Something approaching a weblog

sysadmin

Ack!

Several of my apps keep crashing. Particularly nastily is the fact that Mail.app is crashing every time I update the junk mail status of a message. Most annoying. All the crashes seem to be an invalid memory error:

Setting up MT 3.1's dynamic publishing with an Apache virtual host config

The suggested setup routine for MT 3.1's dynamic publishing gives instructions for use with .htaccess files. If, like me, you've got root access to some variety of unix box then you might well want to do your setup using an apache config file and not a .htaccess file: The performance of mod_rewrite processing rewrite rules in a config file is much better than rules in a .htaccess file.

Migrating from qmail & BincIMAP to Exim and Dovecot on a Debian Sarge box

So, I've been meaning to do this for about nine months now. I have a Debian box at home which is, in fact, an old PowerMac 7300. It has fans, and makes noise. Since we moved to London the box has had to live on the bookshelf in the lounge. It takes up excessive amounts of space and is noisy, so the components for a fanless mini-itx system were bought, and constructed. But I haven't gotten around to migrating things over until now for many reasons, most of which concerned lack of spare time and the conceptual difference in handling virtual mail hosts delivering to local users.

A belated despatch from an office...

This is a despatch-less despatch. Written in the absence of email. You're reading this after the fact. How far after I don't know, since I haven't sent it yet.

Say hi to the new site

So, I've finally shipped a new version of reprocessed.org. It's essentially a prototype -- I did the least possible work to get something up and running, so there's a load of stuff missing (comments, primarily), but hopefully I've got a platform to build the fun and interesting things I've wanted to build but couldn't make Movable Type do (at least, do easily enough).

Apparently I need to tell you that the feeds moved after all

For those of you who subscribe to the feeds...

It looks like a lot of feed readers don't follow permanent redirects sent by servers, and I changed the location of my feeds and used permanent redirects to tell your feed readers about the change, which I thought would make the transition seamless, and I would be able to bask in the glory of having done something right for a change...

Alas, this doesn't seem to be the case. Please update your feed readers. They should be able to automatically find the correct address if you visit http://reprocessed.org/. If not, then the new feed is at http://feeds.feedburner.com/reprocessed.

Thanks, and sorry for the hassle.

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