When
I was reading my aggregator the last day of eTech, I found these
posts in my page of new articles. I started to wonder “How the
heck is my aggregator
going crazy? What is going on here? I’m not doing this!”
… and then I realized what was up. At eTech, all of the
attendees were on the wireless network behind a NAT. To Slashdot,
it must have looked like a lot of requests for their RSS feed from the
same address. Slashdot thought this was all traffic coming from a
single user … and so they pitched the error messages out.
It’s funny to see yet another way in which technology confuses
technology. I’m not sure how this was solved … someone must
have contacted Slashdot to let them know. To Slashdot, they only
saw the one “identity” and assumed that it was a single user hammering
their servers. Yet another case where some sort of solution could
be developed to encode identity into the RSS request.
Funny …
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I have slowly been upgrading all of my old RedHat boxes to Fedora Core
1. I know that this is even old, however this is a tested
configuration for what we wanted to do on our wireless network
infrastructure, and there are some known problems with moving to the
v2.6.x Linux kernel. I don’t want to deal with those yet.
I have now done three upgrades, using the anaconda installer that comes
with Fedora Core, and I have to say that I am impressed. It just
works. Except for Sendmail. In each install that I have
done, sendmail just stops working, and begins to emit useless errors
into the log … or at least they are useless to me. On this
latest upgrade, I have spent hours of time debugging the installation
over the last two or three weeks.
Today I was able to find a simple solution to debugging these
issues. I’m not sure why I didn’t think of this before. I
simply used “rpm” to erase/uninstall sendmail … and then used
“up2date” to install it again. Jackpot! Sendmail is
now working on this newly upgraded server. I’m not going to
forget this “solution.”
Wow … it’s almost like rebooting Windows!
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It looks like Chris Stone, formally of Novell, is betting on a new area … Virtualization. He’s joined an advisory board at Virtual Iron.
I’m going to blog about some more thoughts that I’ve been having about
virtualization lately … I really like this space.
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