natura upgraded to lenny
natura.oskuro.net, the home server which still serves this blog, has been suffering hardware problems for some weeks. Apparently the hard drive is failing …
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Upgrade to PyBlosxom 1.4.3
This week I spent some time upgrading PyBlosxom to version 1.4.3. I was still using 1.2, which probably was insecure and buggy. This is the first step in a …
natura upgraded to etch
Last week I started the final round of Debian upgrades for the servers I maintain here and there, which is mostly complete today. I haven’t been so lucky …
Silent home servers
The computer which hosts this blog is a venerable Pentium 150Mhz, with 64Mb of physical memory and two decently sized disks. It has been running non-stop mostly …
Hard drive failure
On Thursday, I went up to my father’s house to pick up my desktop, now that I finally have Internet access at home so I can have permanent access to it …
Better not comment
Lately, there’s a clear trend in my webserver stats. Since mid September, the top three search strings for oskuro.net are: Naked men (with like 60% of …
Blogging in Catalan
When I started this blog a year and a half ago, I was maintaining a blog in my team’s webpage, in Catalan, to write about my triathlon-oriented stuff. The …
Comments upgrade
I just upgraded the comments plugin from the PyBlosxom contrib prerelease distribution. You should not find tracebacks so easily in this blog now, and actually …
Upgrade to pyblosxom 1.2
Today, being on vacation and with little fun stuff to do, I decided to have a look at my old blog spam problem. Lately, I had been using a poor-man’s spam …
Blog is back
Shortly after posting about referal spam killing my box a few times in two days, things got a lot worse and the box would go down every hour or so. As …