Id hate to write this again so I'm just going to post a link to my blog entry on phpfreaks.com.

Have fun.

Just finished migrating the site back over to my home based servers. Were now running from within a custom Debian vps within my new dual core computer in the spare room at home. I've still got plenty of work to do but the site is up at least.

Got a bit of freelance work to get through over the next few days but I'm hoping to find time to setup another vps for mail on Friday.

I think I'm going to enjoy this setup much more than hosting everything remotely. Just hope my connection is up to speed.

Just finished reading this book last week and Ive got to say, it was the most enjoyable book Ive read in a long while.

It really went into great detail about how Debian is developed, what makes it different from other Linux distros and how you can use it to do just about anything you would want from a *nix based OS.

I was particularly interested in how the package management system is implemented, how to package my own tools and how to build my own kernels the 'Debian way'.

Nicely written by a Debian user/developer Martin F. Krafft, it did actually have me laughing out loud in several places.

While maybe a little dated (around the time of the sage stable) it is still well and truly relevant. I would recommend this book to anyone who has more than a passing interest in Debian.

It would appear its been some three months since my last post, I knew this thing would be a big job to maintain.

Plenty of news since my last entry. I guess the main news is that we have moved house. Were now living in a much bigger (4 bedroom) place with a pool and a decent yard. Shame its coming into winter though. I guess we could always crank up the fireplace.

I've bought a new pc. My old main machine was struggling with too many virtual machines running Apache so I thought fuck it, it was time to upgrade anyway. My new machine is a core2 duo running at 3.Ghz/core topped off with 8G of memory. It really is a beast. I had allot of trouble getting her going though, mostly due to the fact that I'm running all SATA drives and a fairly recent Nvidia (8600GT) video card. So yeah, in the end I ended up installing Debian's unstable distro sid, this gave me access to the 2.6.24 version of the kernel and a much newer version or xorg. From there its all been pretty smooth sailing. A few minor issues which I'll likely (hopefully) post about within the next few days.

My old machine has been relegated back to running windows as I've finally set up a small recording studio in a spare room. Its been a long while since I've had a place to make music and I'm looking forward to getting back into it. I've set it up with fruity studio also hooked up my midi controller and Stace's Roland kit.

Anyway, just wanted to get some news out of the way. I'm dying to write an entry about how I got the openvz patches into my kernel so you should hear about that in the next few days.

More to come.

It's been a few weeks since my last post, but yeah, its that time of year. I had all intention of knuckling down to get some of this framework developed but ended up a little side tracked, mostly by christmas.

News is though that I have actually started prototyping several parts of the framework including the router (used to route requests to actions) and the config system. I wanted to stick to native php arrays for configuration because of its speed, but in reality, they don't offer enough flexability so I'll be going with xml which will be latter turned into objects.

In other news, it would appear my laptop is fuba. I think its got overheating issues and its locking up all the time. My main dev server (an old iMac G3) has also given up the ghost in the last few weeks. HD failure. So yeah, I'm having a little bad luck with machines at the moment. The only real good thing to come out of this is that I'm starting to look into virtulization and am installing qemu as I type. I wanted to go with xen but I'm using the binary nvidia kernel module and can't get it to build against the xen kernel.

ps: I've now managed to switch my main desktop machine over to Debian Etch full time and I'm loving it! Gentoo was really becoming quite an issue to maintain over a dialup connection. I've also moved to using xfce4 from fluxbox. The main reason I started using fluxbox initially was because I didn't want the temptation of a file manager that gnome and kde provide by default. I figured the only way to get to know the shell was to use it, and fluxbox made it real easy to have a very minimal environment to work in. Now days though, I feel a little luxury goes a long way and xfce4 is still pretty slim when compared to gnome/kde.

I've a new geforce card in the mail so should also be getting beryl going in the next few days as well.