Website http://blog.cihar.com/archives/website/ Random thoughts about everything… en-us Michal Čihař 2008-06-25T10:01:03+02:00 http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2008/06/25/cool_down_the_server/ Cool down the server 2008-06-25T10:00:10+02:00 Michal Čihař Website Moving of server seems to go quite well. There were some outages for users during night because of too big TTL in DNS, but after setting up redirector at old IP during morning, this should not be a problem. Now only few hosted sites were still unable to change their DNS settings, but it's not my problem :-).

On the other hand, it looks that moving server to new server room will have some positive effect on it's health:

Temperature of disks

]]> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2008/06/24/server_has_been_moved/ Server has been moved 2008-06-24T00:59:03+02:00 Michal Čihař Website This night, long delayed operation has been done and server which gives you this page has been moved to another server room. It should bring a bit better conditions for server and you should not notice this except short outage in this night till all DNS caches on the way will will update their records. This is a theory and lets see what problems will appear tomorrow morning ;-).

]]> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2008/05/22/most_interesting_things_on_my_blog/ Most interesting things on my blog 2008-05-22T08:46:54+02:00 Michal Čihař Website It sometimes funny to review web server stats to see what people are looking for in my blog. I usually expect something like my name and projects I participate on. But there are some surprises:

  1. cihar
  2. gammu
  3. dosbox games
  4. pissing
  5. mpd sonata
  6. wammu
  7. phpmyadmin
  8. project names
  9. sound juicer mp3
  10. phpmyadmin themes

For most of them I'm in first page in Google results, even though I have no idea why are my posts ranked so high even for such generic things as "product names", but I don't care. What surprises me most is "pissing". I guess I know what are people looking for when they enter this word to Google ;-). But according to Google webmaster tools, I'm somewhere near 110th position. Why the hell does somebody look so deep in results? And why does he go to one line blog post? I really don't understand this. Maybe I should focus on this word and bring my post to first page of Google results ;-).

]]> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2007/12/05/downtime_15_hours/ Downtime 15 hours 2007-12-05T22:49:58+02:00 Michal Čihař Website Finally happened the thing which I expected to happen since I left to Japan. My server (currently being few thousands kilometers away) crashed and exactly followed Murphy's law to break in time when it would caused largest possible downtime. Anyway it's now back and I hope all services are correctly running.

And no, I have no idea what caused power led to blink and make the computer unresponsive for anything except plugging it out of power and then pugging it back. Hopefully it will not repeat, at least not until I'll be back in Prague :-).

]]> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2007/10/07/dictionary_snapshots_in_more_incarnations/ Dictionary snapshots in more incarnations 2007-10-07T13:52:37+02:00 Michal Čihař Website, Coding On request I just added three new incarnations of dictionary snapshots. So if you're using display not capable of utf-8, you can use ascii variant, for those using non-Debian sdcv, notags variant has been created (but I anyway recommend you to apply patch to add Pango markup support). And finally there is combined super-crippled ascii-notags version :-).

]]> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2007/10/02/too_much_spam_in_ukolovnik_demo/ Too much spam in Ukolovnik demo 2007-10-02T11:02:47+02:00 Michal Čihař Website, Ukolovnik Looking at the web stats, I noticed, that quite a lot of people find something relevant to "environmental" on my pages. As I was not aware of anything related here, I tried that in Google. To my surprise all results are in demo for Ukolovnik.

Well I do not want to add any anti spam technique to this simple tool as it will be usually password protected. And this is exactly what I did with demo for now. So if you want to use it, you need to login with user demo and password demo. I hope this will prevent spammers from using this demo, otherwise I would probably have to close it.

]]> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2007/08/29/phone_database_cleanup/ Phone database cleanup 2007-08-29T18:05:48+02:00 Michal Čihař Gammu, Website Gammu Phone Database grew into quite big size and there were quite a lot of duplicate or poor quality records. So I today decided to do some cleanup of data inside it. First step was figuring out duplicates. There were quite a lot of them and I could remove about 50 records without loosing information about any phone.

The quality issue is always harder. Some empty records really did not make a sense, so they're gone now. However some users really don't understand what some features mean, so there were quite a lot of phones being reported to support MMS and I'm pretty sure there is no code in Gammu for it :-). I went through their list and dropped almost half of phones there. Some records might have been useful in other way, but I can not verify what all was wrong with them.

Maybe I should add some basic checks when adding new entry to check such errors as MMS support for AT connection.

]]> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2007/07/19/archzoom_service_discontinued/ ArchZoom service discontinued 2007-07-19T12:13:15+02:00 Michal Čihař Website Today I decoded to disable ArchZoom. The reason is that it is not much used and anyway everything has been moved to Subversion. Also I never liked how it works and how slow it is (the main reason for this is Arch slowness).

However Arch repositories are still available at http://arch.cihar.com/ and probably will be still available for long time.

]]> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2007/07/17/new_phone_database_features/ New phone database features 2007-07-17T00:00:33+02:00 Michal Čihař Gammu, Website Thanks to suggestion by Georg Lehner, Gammu Phone Database now support additional searching by supported features. So from now, you can easily search which phones support MMS (well I think this list contains few false positives, but that's what users have entered).

In addition to this, you can grab data in CSV format. It does not contain everything what is displayed online, especially emails are not exposed at all, but it might be useful to do some more complex statistics or queries. Format of this file might change in future, so please be smart enough when writing some parser for it ;-).

]]> http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2007/06/11/yet_another_wiki_died_on_spam/ Yet another wiki died on spam 2007-06-11T18:06:41+02:00 Michal Čihař Gammu, Website Some time ago I added links to FoneWiki.org to Gammu phone database to show more information about phones. The main reason for that was information about K750i phone, which I wanted to buy in that time.

Unfortunately as time goes on, this page seems to be almost the only one with interesting content on this wiki. Most of other pages are only templates or links to buy cheap v1agra or some other similar spam.

It's a pity that this server is gone, because I think such wiki is a good idea.

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