People usually goes to the seaside at the weekend. But here it was snowing. So, I thought about setting up some geeky stuff.
First of all, upgrade of my ubuntu server to Gutsy Gibbon. Quite smooth, even if I did it via ssh and with an ever-dropping connection. Just apache: complains about port 443 used by someone else, and it was itself. Removed it from /etc/apache2/ports.conf, since already present in /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ssl.conf.
Second: now I have an alpha server at home. Got some difficulty, since I never worked on an alpha neither do it via serial line (given alpha was configured to use only serial line as input/output). But, at last, ralph the alpha is up. Ralph, just like Ralph Waldo Emerson, oh my dear, nothing less. aboot - the boot system for alpha servers with SRM consoles (wonderful thing, by the way) - still does not boot up right, complaining about a unknown zip compression, but when I give him the boot stuff by hand, it starts smoothly. I had just to add a console=ttyS0 by hand and the corresponding entry in /etc/inittab, and it was all ok. It’ll start crunching numbers (see: running antispam, computing graphs and keeping the mysql db) as soon as I can configure it. Veeeeery nice.
