Why does this exist?
This theme is, despite the reference to Hemingway — who I think is over-rated — and notwithstanding (or even perhaps aided by) the fact that it’s somehow slightly pretentious… totally sweet.
Wordpress has some neat little bits to it. If this weren’t mostly experimental, I might feel silly not using something more Rubyish, like Mephisto, except I already maintain several mongrel clusters at work and frankly, I don’t want to do it here also. There’s a lot to be said for mod_php being just mod_php and not some terrible many-moving-part combination of [mod_proxy, mod_proxy_balancer, pen, pound, mongrel, thin, nginx, lighttpd]… each piece of which then requires an entry or routine in monit or whatever.
To sum up: as demonstrated, no, there’s nothing of interest here.
I recently looked up an old friend and realized all over again how difficult it is to find people on the net. The name ‘Daemian’ is unusual enough that it shouldn’t be impossible, assuming you’ve somehow managed to remember the actual spelling; on the other hand, Google shows a bunch of references to people who happen to spell their name similarly. Thus, this.
I plan, without any actual expectation of updating this ever again, to use this as a means for people to find me on the net, and while serving that noble purpose, there may be a couple semi-nifty search-related things I could do with it, like seducing Google into finally containing a few of the more obscure problems I end up researching multiple times, like this one…
Q: What does it mean when Apache reports
Unknown DAV provider: filesystem
?
A: It probably means…
/etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_fs.conf:DAVLockDB /var/lock/apache2/DAVLock
The file referenced there doesn’t exist. /var/ is mounted as tmpfs in at least Gentoo and Ubuntu, so it gets wiped out at every boot, which doesn’t make a lot of sense when you think about it.
Fascinating, yes. Stay tuned for further jaw-dropping excerpts.