Setting Max Message Size in Mailman 3
This is more a personal note to myself, but it might be useful if others could find this answer more easily. The web UI for mailman 3 (postorius) does not corre...
Category: Computers
Computers Are Fun!
So my friend John sez to me, he sez “I just installed XenServer 7.1.0 on my new server and it’s awesome. You should give it a try. It’s easy t...
Trying to get my nerd on…
My Dell C6100 server arrived today. I worked from home all day so I could be here for the UPS guy but the joke was on me: he didn’t show up until almost 5...
Serious Server Upgrades On The Way
I’ve had a server in my basement on the internet since about 1998. Back then I was running a website and email server on a Pentium 133 over a 1024/768 kbs...
Broadcom B43 WiFi card under Linux (Mint and others)
The Dell Lattitude series of laptops (D630, D830, others) use the Broadcom 43xx series WiFi cards. These have firmware that is proprietary and needs special voo...
Recent Computer Trials and Tribulations
I’ve been having a rough week with my computers. It started out alright on Saturday when I successfully upgraded my main Ubuntu server. The upgrade consis...
Three hour fiber outage this morning
USInternet decided to do some service-interrupting scheduled maintenance this morning. Apparently they swapped out some fiber switches. All-in-all I was down fo...
Self-inflicted DNS Outage
So now that I’m back online I can confess to the self-inflicted DNS outage that took down my web sites and email lists from around Noon on Saturday until ...
Server Upgrade Fun
My Ubuntu server that powers this blog hasn’t been upgraded for a while. The uptime was 450+ days and the Message of the Day was telling me I needed to re...
VI Search and Replace Snippit
Since I haven’t programmed for a while, my formatting is rusty. I realized that I was inconsistant in how I was using spaces around my parenthesis in my c...