Switching…

When checking the comments and spam in my wordpress administrator I saw that WordPress got an update a few hours ago. The new 2.0.4 release contains several important security updates, so you are strongly advised to upgrade. In addition to the security enhancements, there are many other small bug fixes, as well.

I first upgraded a test/development site to check the upgrade procedure was working and then went forward and upgraded my production blog. It was very painless, I hope it is the same for you.

Our dear Mac OS X loves to use DNS, for instance when browsing the internet every connection attempt is followed by a DNS lookup (as far as I know). There is not much caching being done on the local machine, therefore I had put this on my to-do list: Document the setup of a local DNS server on your own network that would efficiently cache most of the DNS requests to forego most of the slow internet DNS lookups.

I’m still struggling with parenthood and version 2 of the ISP in a box still has a problem somewhere which I’m sure I had solved but somehow due to all the attention loss I have forgotten what it was about. (more…)

First of all everybody thanks for all the congratulations and well wishes, mother and child are doing great. I’m getting the hang of it now, just the midnight feedings are killing and I hope they will soon be over.

But in the week I was off-line Postfix got updated to a new release with all new functionality as well. I haven’t tested it or got into the details yet but I wanted to get the word out on this. I will spend time this week to find what impact these new changes mean to our setup as there are some major changes made to the software: (more…)

Just a quick post to let you know that I’ve become a father yesterday of a healthy little girl called Anna Charlotte. I’ll be off-line for the next week or so…

Thanks for your patience !

I read this article from Robert X. Cringely on the net neutrality debate that’s going on at the moment. What I liked about it is the emphasis he put on the services ISP’s are adding to the internet connection that only add to the price and aren’t selectable. Myself I need a reliable, fast enough, internet connection without any bells and whistles. I don’t care about ISP provided email addresses, webspace or spamfilters I take care of that myself and I guess you do too otherwise you wouldn’t be reading my blog.
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