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SSL Certificates and SRV Records

SSL Certificates and SRV Records

This article is part of an ongoing series of posts, there’s an index here. I originally planned to use my own reseller account’s DNS hosting with an existing domain, but I woke up one morning utterly convinced that I needed to own chinwag.im and I don’t

Extra Modules and Dependencies

Extra Modules and Dependencies

This article is part of an ongoing series of posts, there’s an index here. I was originally going to make this post about SRV records and SSL certificates at this point, but StartSSL won’t issue me a certificate for chinwag.im until the domain is older than three

Configuring Prosody

Configuring Prosody

This article is part of an ongoing series of posts, there’s an index here. Environment I’ve started with Ubuntu 14.04 as the platform for this project, mainly due to it having a good selection of the packages we’ll need at suitable versions, and it’s a

XMPP Server Software

XMPP Server Software

This article is part of an ongoing series of posts, there’s an index here. The base operating system for this project will be Ubuntu 14.04, mainly because a lot of what we’ll need is conveniently packaged for it at appropriate versions. Not much of what is going

Building a Public XMPP Service

Building a Public XMPP Service

This article is part of an ongoing series of posts, there’s an index here. So for nearly five years now, I’ve been running a public XMPP server to support a small community. Since it first appeared, XMPP (or Jabber) has had its ups and downs but has never

Man Eats Onion

This is a dumb thing I did to illustrate how dumb a thing someone else did was.

Stupid Post

A Pigeon The first post is going to be the dumbest, so can we just get it over with? Great. Thanks! Here is a pigeon that once looked at me through my office window. It’s almost certainly dead by now.

What's Grouse?

A lot of things used to be Grouse. Now very few things are Grouse, because we stopped looking for them. We’re getting back to work very soon.

Sailing!

This is a repost from an old blog, dated appropriately It’s amazing when a mundane evening turns into something incredibly cool. I got a call, just after 7pm, from a friend of mine who I’ve been doing some work with on and off over the years – Brett. He’

We Told Them ...

This is a repost from an old blog, dated appropriately The client wanted a huge amount of disk space, cheaply. An off-the-shelf board and a bunch of drives were duly purchased, and a Linux distribution installed. Then they called me. “OK,” I said. “Software RAID. No problem. We’ll configure

Repost

This is a repost from an old blog, dated appropriately I mentioned this story to a couple of people at the party last night, after finding it in the Something Awful forum archives. I’d completely forgotten I’d written it until I was just flipping through my old posts.