Julien Valroff's weblog and personal homepage
Archive for December, 2009
4 years blogging
Dec 20th
My blog has just celebrated its 4th birthday.
161 posts, only 190 comments, but the statistics shows a stable increase in the number of visitors (in average a bit less than 500 unique visitors per day).
During the week-end, I have worked on upgrading WordPress to the newer 2.9 release, and have just finished optimising my apache and mysql configurations. Access to my websites should now be somehow faster.
Moved to London!
Dec 10th
Well, I haven’t moved myself, but my server is now hosted in the new Linode datacenter located in London.
The migration has caused a downtime of more or less 4 hours yesterday, time for the data to cross the ocean.
The migration was successful, though you might still experience issues to connect to the services hosts on this linode due to the new IP adressess (both IPv4 and IPv6). Most DNS servers should however now be up-to-date.
Thanks again to Linode for their great service and support.
Things I like in Ubuntu
Dec 6th
Though I haven’t used (and won’t use) Ubuntu, it has a few things I appreciate (as far as I know them):
Ubuntu One: I wish we could have something similar for Debian users (ideally, it should be extended so that we could sync our calendars, contacts, liferea data etc.).
usb-creator: seems the easiest way to create a bootable usb stick containing a complete and customisable environment. I am aware of the existence Debian Live, but I must say I haven’t given it a try yet.
Desktop orientation: Ubuntu users are in a large majority desktop users. Ubuntu is imho desktop-oriented, and I particularly like the artwork coherence (from boot loader to default desktop).
