Software

PmWiki on nginx

I’ve been looking at a few wiki packages for a project and found PmWiki to my liking – under active development, a nice default skin, easily customizable, and it does not require a database. My personal choice is ikiwiki, which I run on my laptop for quick notes, but since this project is for a [...]

Tech Support Cheat Sheet

Lenny apt configs

A friend of mine, Major, asked for a little advice on Debian apt configuration for a stable production server. Over the years, I have learned a few little things with regards to apt configuration with sane access to newer backports and/or testing/unstable/alpha apt repositories, and particularly one gotcha when a new stable release is completed. [...]

The Order of the Blue Polo

I just got my blue polo from the OpenNMS guys, and had to write a quick post on the certificate included in the package. It says: Certificate of Merit Let this Certify that Michael Shuler has demonstrated outstanding judgment in becoming a member of The Order of the Blue Polo What can we say? Although [...]

The Way It Is

Brilliant!