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Wednesday 13 December, 2006 @ 15:21:27 by Cafuego
daily / LCA

Only a month to go until LCA07! :-)

Tickets have been purchased, accomodation has been booked and beer money has been set aside (muahaha!) I did some checking to see how hard it would be to disassemble our bicycles for shipping - it's not expensive, take yours too - and it looks like things aren't too badly rusted, so all should be fine.

Saturday 9 December, 2006 @ 19:46:28 by Cafuego
daily / mail

Well, the first day of the new imap server running seems to have passed without incident. Huzzah!

Very smoky in Melbourne today, stinks too. KatteKrab mentioned a beautiful satellite pic of the hovering smoke on The Age website, which led me to have a look at MODIS, where the image came from. Google Earth, but LIVE DATA!

Friday 8 December, 2006 @ 11:41:01 by Cafuego
daily / spam

80.71.109.* seems to be massively referer-spamming this month
Friday 8 December, 2006 @ 11:24:26 by Cafuego
work / imap

At some time in the past 8 hours cyrus has decided to explode. A few dozen ctl_cyrusdb processes were eating cpu time as fast as they could, no mail was being delivered and imap was not responding.

Last week, some problems occurred with the seen databases, resetting the seen status on a few thousand emails. Annoying.

Time then to change.

I've decided to swap the whole lot (15 or so GB of mail) over from cyrus to dovecot+maildir. I've heard dovecut is a bit faster than other imap servers, so that's a nice side effect too. A quick google picked up cyrus2maildir, a small python script, which seems to be doing the trick with only minor changes. (It requires python 2.4)

Conversion is currently running, but the imap server is only a P3/600, so that'll take a while :-)