Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
If you are reading this successfully via my site, or some RSS feed, it means that my blog migration has been successful. I'm unfortunately a typical internet technologist in some regards - if the internet machines are working, I don't tend to spend much time maintaining them or planning any upgrades. The upcoming expiration of my domain name and shutdown of a trial VPS I had running for some time…
And now a break from my usual programming-related posts to bring you something back on the sysadmin side of the fence, for a change. I'm in the process of setting up a new VPS for myself, and probably will move my blog over to it when it is all set up. I say VPS, but really it is an OpenVZ container (which I guess passes for VPS just about as well). The critical difference is that you are running…