Author Archives: Morc

Nginx alias vs Roundcube

Posted on 12 March 2023 by Morc

When you install Roundcube from a distribution package (for example a .deb package on Ubuntu) the package installs files under /usr/share/roundcube/ If you want to serve Roudncube from a different URI than /roundcube/, then you have two options (maybe more): … Continue reading →

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Migrating Windows XP from an HDD to an SSD

Posted on 22 July 2012 by Morc

  I wanted to see how much better my old P4 machine fairs running on an SSD so I took one from work and set out on a journey with a few surprises, as it turned out.

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VMWare ESXi fun

Posted on 8 March 2012 by Morc

I usually have “fun” it seems with technology and software. So remote management is a really convenient tool, but has its quirks as well. 

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InnoDB fun

Posted on 8 March 2012 by Morc

I’m running a few servers, some of them have MySQL on it. Obviously some tables use InnoDB as the storage engine, which by default is not configured really well. 

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Fun with Zend

Posted on 8 March 2012 by Morc

There is a web server, Apache, which all of a sudden started to die in a funny way. It did not die completely, just did not serve pages… 

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Offtopic: Windows Media Audio vs Winamp

Posted on 27 August 2011 by Morc

I like to listen to radio, but the PC is on anyway and there’s no hifi around I listen to it on the PC also. I would listen, because some radio stations are not Winamp-friendly and base their streaming on … Continue reading →

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Apache performance tuning

Posted on 21 August 2011 by Morc

It happened that one hosted site had a sudden surge in visitor count and though the server was not brought to it’s knees completely page loading was very slow, basically the server was DOSed. It happened before that all of … Continue reading →

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Apache weirdness

Posted on 23 July 2011 by Morc

If you’ve ever seen this when starting Apache apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using <IP address> for ServerName then check is you have an entry in your /etc/hosts file for this IP address and … Continue reading →

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Postfix double vision

Posted on 16 July 2011 by Morc

The task at hand was to set up a second instance of Postfix, the original will handle normal mail traffic for domains, both sending and receiving, while the other would only be used solely for sending and logs into a … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu upgrade hurdles

Posted on 8 July 2011 by Morc

I’ve been testing an upgrade path from 9.04 (Jaunty) to 10.04 (Lucid) via 9.10 (Karmic) for a while now when I realized that Karmic may be deleted from the normal mirrors and only available on old-releases server. Started to get … Continue reading →

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