Monthly Archives: August 2009

downtime page in apache

It is good practice to send 503 Status codes when your site has downtime or is doing an upgrade. The easiest way to do this for all your URLs is something like this using mod_asis: # Bind mod_asis to files … Continue reading

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email is awesome

my favorite part of mbox_parse.c: /** * List of all C-T-E Types found on httpd-dev and FreeBSD-current: * * Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit * Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT * Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit * Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit * Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8-bit * Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT * … Continue reading

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zfs+freebsd pain

Having some fun times with people.apache.org: minotaur# uname -a FreeBSD minotaur.apache.org 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Wed Aug 5 01:05:27 UTC 2009 root@loki.apache.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MINOTAUR amd64 minotaur# zpool status pool: tank state: DEGRADED status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The … Continue reading

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the comcast local monopoly sucks

I pay Comcast $155.00 a month for TV and fast internet — baring the download limits I never hit, It is an acceptable service, even if still overpriced. Yesterday I got a call from Comcast.  I didn’t think much of … Continue reading

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malloc debugging on OSX

I can never remember all of the options for malloc(3) on OSX when debugging. So I’m posting it here so I can find it with Google Search next time I need to find it: export MallocLogFile=/tmp/malloc.log export MallocGuardEdges=1 export MallocStackLogging=1 … Continue reading

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