sting posts

Finally, after almost a week since my stings, they're no longer itching so bad. Continue reading post "#4096"

Thursday, while mowing the lawn, I got stung three times by some yellow-jackets, my first multi-sting event. There's apparently a nest in my front lawn. I'll need to get rid of that soon. I'm still feeling the stings, mostly just itchy now.

For Ubuntu servers, I use the unattended-upgrades package to automate keeping the system and packages up to date. I recently noticed some of Cogneato's servers showing packages needing to be updated for multiple days. When I looked in unattended-upgrades.log (in folder /var/log/unattended-upgrades/), I found the message "WARNING Package something has conffile prompt and needs to be upgraded manually". Basically, there was a change to a configuration file and it didn't know how to handle it.

I've started to play with Dreamcompute (basically Dreamhost's unmanaged VPS solution). The plan is to move my sites from shared hosting over to that before my next shared hosting bill is due. Continue reading post "#1501"

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