As of late,
Running around trying to get things done & completed.. Some things tend to get left behind, It would appear that my favourite Repo, for CENTOS, is no longer active.. :( , which does cause me some pain I am looking forward to the next version of Centos, to being able to finally upgrade postgresql, php & mysql without thirdparty repos..
In the midst of all things bad and good, I have managed to get a Sony Xperia X10, running 1.6 Android.
Slightly disaspointing that it is only 1.6, but completely blown away by it in terms of its speed and capability.
Varnish, squid.. utter failure :( either that or I am slowly losing my mind.. I have now switched all things over to nginx as a frontend, which has speed up things, fixed other things.. and hoepfully hasn't broken much..
I stumbled accross a wiki the other month, Enano.. Needless to say I fell in love with it's features & shiney..ajax'y ness..
It has become the default wiki accross the board, and all our faq's will be migrating to it.. and more
Phase one.. is delayed yet again, it seems like I am not the only one that gets confused when alot is going on.. for that I am thankful, I am hoping that soon it will get underway, as I know currently our setup is starting to show signs on age & strain. I Didn't design it to last as long as it has.. or rather handle the load it is currently taking..
New Ticket system ^_^ - one of the few things I have manged to actually upgrade recently nicely..
We have replaced "eticket" with "osticket" a much needed improvement, one of which I can now track/mantain and manage better..
Upload site has been fixed, http://upload.ahbit.net/ , I had to do a few things in django to "fix it" still not entirely sure how it broke.. but yea :)
Andrew
So;
A while ago I posted that new shiney upgrade's will be happening and that Phase 1 is underway.
It is underway, we have just hit a few snags mostly in delays in equipment and the massive cost of the start up.
In the meantime, a few tweaks have been made to our servers, PHP scripts have been compressed & sped up, all our boxes are now running some kind of reverse proxy..
So if you notice that it hasn't updated just after you have made a change.. just clear your browser cache and refresh.
Also a new site is underway and in the works which will bring a fresh look.. I know we updated it recently however it hasn't been suiting out needs as much as we thought so.. make way for ahbit v3/v4?
A few of our pet projects are currently in limbo while we wait for the next stages of Phase 1 gets underway..
Big (depends on what is big for you..) are coming soon... :)
So;
The start of this week has hit off.. somewhat interesting, tweaks have been made.. Phase 1 has started to get underway.
What is Phase 1?
Well :) that is a secret for now,
Things loading should be terribly faster, if not will be more so by the time phase 3/4 gets completed things will be smoother, quicker and tidier..
A word I haven't used for a while :)
Those looking for vps's, bnc's which are cheap & close to home.. soon I will have an answer
A range of other pretty things will be also coming up not only am I scared but also excited, new paths are on the way and it is bright..
So, stay tuned, more to come
Hey :)
For those that find this.. or read it *shrugs*
Been walking along a fine line sometimes, have been given another job, 4 days a week with an awesome team.
Most of the new features I bragged about last post have been sorta implemented to some degree.
Finding problems currently with hardware space, cost & actual time to test / implement.
I am overall concerned with a few issues that I am starting to run into however things are moving.
Geodns, well that is somewhat implemented.. It has been tested, however our testbox was happy though the primary was not.. more to come on that next post.
Virtualbox, no more vmware for me :) virtualbox kicks butt in terms of load / ease of use.. no more clunky webpages for me :)
I have finally a twitter account.. http://twitter.com/andrboot heh. first :) don't use it all that much though.
Might be scraping the idea of getting a rack here in Australia, other things up my sleeve though :) wait and see.
Currently stuff im looking at is mighty expensive, no suprise there but yea.
This year ,2010 is a big year for me, ahbit & others close to me. :/
I have big plans that I hope will achieve the goals I have set.
Amazed at the wreck my life was last year.. :\ though sometimes I worry I haven't moved that far forward, time will tell.
Andrew
So;
Where have i been.. uhh yea :)
Been head down.. bum up sorta heh busy with some temp work/learning/trying to learn some new stuff.
Backups are now fully automated/functional :) duplicty/gpg keys were the main cause of the problem, however they are fixed
Finally, got an operational Samba,ldap/pdc working :)
New features coming online hopefully soon, ldap auth throughout all our services (new special ones coming :) )
Status site is now finally a status site, and seperate to the main box so if it does go down, you can check what has happened/problems are.
Nagios - Moving it from the current location (i.e. adah.home.ahbit.net) to its new public location :) - secured of course
I have learnt alot coding a nagios setup where i did some temp work, enough to go wow and implement it all over :)
Ksplice - the reason for my awesome uptime :) and security heh... no more rebootin my main boxes yet still doing updates :)
Tape Backup systems - still kinda freaked bout this, still looking for a windows replacemnt, and need to test a linux solution aka amanda when i finally purchase a tape for my 100/200GB tape drive.
Xmarks - kicks ass :) mind you i don't trust em with my bookmarks/data so I have a local webdav setup going working wonders through vpn, soon to be also "public"
New Features :)
Besides ldap?
They are secrets :D
geodns - sooner rather then later, currently in testing
Faster sites/loading times ;)
more.. heh :) just yea :p
Also, upcoming will be a promo when i will do some updating/live stuff :) more to come on that.
Things I am keeping my eye on :
Virtualbox + Virtualbox Web admin - plan to place my current virtualisation software with it :)