configuration

Thanks to Wesley, we recently managed to update CouchDB’s FreeBSD port to the official 0.9.0 release. My current TODO for the port includes: a super-cool rc-script (currently, there is none) automatic user setup/creation (couchdb) patching of the install/source to use BSD-style directories for the database (e.g. /var/db/couchdb). In regard to the the rc-script, I continued on a work in progress and committed an idea on Github. This work in process (couchdb) works out of the box....

I bought a Drobo for myself about seven months ago and I couldn’t be any happier. My files are backed up on a RAID system, I still got plenty of space to waste. My world is OK. Some friends of mine recently bought one of the new Drobo units with a DroboShare. The DroboShare costs $200 (USD) and is a glorified Linux server which exports your Drobo using Samba to all clients on the network....

We frequently get users on #pear (@efnet) who happen to run Plesk and need help setting up PEAR. Now running any config interface is a blog entry by itself and when I say Plesk, I should also mention confixx and cpanel. And while I have a strong dislike for all them, let me focus on Plesk for now. This is not a copy’n’paste howto, so make sure you double-check all steps involved....