Hint: you can purchase support from us for commercial applications by calling 703-842-5324 or emailing sales@imapenguin.com
Support for people working on real open source projects via email is free at support@imapenguin.com (make sure you mention you’re doing open source and what the project is).
Have fun and let us know how it’s working for you!
I’m giving the IM talk at Angelbeat in Philadelphia next Monday the 23rd. It’s in the morning and I’m in town until dinner time. Drop me a line (mike@imapenguin.com) if you’re in town and want to geek out at a coffee shop in the afternoon.
While at 32 I’m by no means old, I had a funny conversation last week about my beginnings with Linux. The short short version is that I played quite a bit with Slackware and then got really serious when RedHat 4.2 came out.
The slightly younger (like 25ish) person I was talking to looked very surprised and proclaimed “Wow, I would have thought with all you seem to know about Linux that you’d been using it longer than me. I started just after RedHat 4 was released.”
With a sigh, I explained the crazy numbering system choice RedHat made to go up to 9 and then back to 3 (or EL, ES 3 or 2 or whatever silliness it was they did) that I was speaking of “RedHat Linux” 4.2 which was released in May of 1997.
I think this might mean that the RedHat 5.2 box and disc set that I have on my bookshelf means that I have special connections into RedHat and that I have insights into about 2 years into the future.
Given this information, I’d like to announce that I’ll happily sell you CDR copies of this CD set for $50 a pop.
It’s a glimpse into the future folks. Just think, RedHat 5.2 today. No waiting.
Better break out those notes on XF86Config though, the graphical interface installer for this futuristic version isn’t quite done yet.
Zultys auto attendants need an 8bit Mono U-law format wav file. Most recording software will give you a stereo 16bit format at the very least. To convert via sox (available for Unix machines including Macs) simply do:
I have about 5 Google apps mail accounts through different projects. Imapenguin is now enabled through Google Apps as well and is the only account with the premier option.
Today, the only account with the paid uptime guarantee has been down for an hour. All of my standard(and free) accounts are up.
I’m trying to figure out what I’m paying $50 a user for when all of my free accounts are available and everyone in my business, and all of our clients are waiting for email to come back up.
As a stark contrast, we had run our own Postfix/Dovcot email system for years up until a few weeks ago with really close to 100% uptime via very low maintenance.
It’s ironic that we switch to a paid outsourced system and now are enduring our longest downtime in years.
We’ve been doing a bunch of server setups for folks in VPS’s. I figure we’d save you the cost of hiring us by posting a quick rundown on an Ubuntu Edgy Rails setup:
sudo bash
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
apt-get remove apache2
apt-get install libssl-dev
apt-get install zlib1g-dev
dpkg --purge apache apache2
apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install libreadline5-dev
cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://apache.mirror99.com/httpd/httpd-2.2.4.tar.gz
tar -xzvf httpd-2.2.4.tar.gz
cd httpd-2.2.4
./configure --enable-proxy --enable-proxy-balancer\
--enable-proxy-http --enable-rewrite --enable-cache\
--enable-headers --enable-ssl --enable-so
make && make install
/usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start
apt-get install mysql-server
/etc/init.d/mysql start
cd /usr/local/src/
wget ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.6.tar.gz
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/17189/rubygems-0.9.2.zip
apt-get install unzip
unzip rubygems-0.9.2.zip
tar -xzvf ruby-1.8.6.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.8.6
./configure && make && make install
cd ../rubygems-0.9.2
ruby setup.rb
gem update
gem install rails --include-dependencies
apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev
gem install mysql --include-dependencies
gem install mongrel --include-dependencies
gem install mongrel_cluster --include-dependencies
Then you need some optional housecleaning and deploy your app. We’ll assume you know this part. If not, you can flame me via email and I’ll help you.
set a mysql password and add appropiate users and permissions
