1. Darned Apache2

    Spent a really frustrating hour or two this weekend figuring out why Apache 2.1 wasn't working on vallista.idyll.org.

    The symptoms of the problem were that Apache would not serve static pages at all. I could serve dynamic pages (in fact, I "patched" my few static sites by …

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  2. Exim, spamassassin and logrotate

    Here's some pointlessly complex systems administration stuff.

    I spent an hour or two today debugging my spam filtering setup. Most of my e-mail goes through Caltech, which does spam tagging nicely, but recently there's been a substantial increase in e-mail coming through various hosted domains. This bypasses Caltech's tagging, so …

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  3. Installing Xen on Debian

    I just got two HP ML350 servers (very nice: 8 gb RAM, 600 gb 15k disk, 2x 3.6 GHz Xeon -- yes, we over-ordered) and I spent a few hours installing Xen-enabled Debian on them.

    Xen is a very nice virtualization system that works with Linux. It lets you do …

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  4. corebio proceedeth

    corebio, the joint effort by a junta of California bioinformaticians to replace BioPython with something we like better, is proceeding interestingly. So far we have discussed the following issues:

    • what license? (BSD)
    • what focus? (sequence manipulation & parsing)
    • what about binary extensions? (focus on API, provide fast implementations where appropriate, but …
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