Archive for October, 2008

No more home hosting

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Apparently we just need to give a few day's notice to our local TM Point to terminate our Streamyx service. We've had it more than 2 years, and upgraded to 1Mbit/s last year. I was hosting a few sites of my own, just little ideas I wanted to work on, ...

Streamyx SMTP AUTH mail proxy

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

I thought I'd better write a quick up date to the previous article I wrote, since it gets a lot of hits. The information is a bit outdated in the old article, and our problems have moved on since. I changed our sendmail config at lolyco.com some time ago, in ...

Cannot execute /bin/bash: Permission denied

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Just a quick note, just in case someone else sees this message. I got this error this morning when I logged in as a non-root user on a Slackware server I'd upgraded yesterday. In an act of blind faith, I used 'slackpkg upgrade-all', and then the fun began. Incidentally, if you're ...

Damerau-Levenshtein in Java

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

When I wrote about the Damerau Levenshtein MySQL UDF (User Defined Function) I explained that I prototyped the functions in Java first. I had a request for the Java code, but when I looked at it, realised that I only used it half way, and then made finishing touches to ...