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Lighttpd on SLES December 31, 2007

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I’ve been playing around with switching from Apache to lighttpd (lighty) for a while now; one of my dev boxes runs lighty reasonably well.

Couple of things:

- the openSUSE build system has pre-built RPMs for SLES

- PHP support is via FastCGI; it’s not exactly intuitive on SLES – but the correct php5 binary is actually placed into /srv/www/cgi-bin. I moved mine to /usr/bin and renamed it to php5-fastcgi

Some time in the next few days I’ll finally move the production environment live – but right now it’s looking faster and less memory intensive than Apache.

WordPress 2.3.2 December 29, 2007

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Now live:

http://wordpress.org/development/2007/12/wordpress-232/

Download from:

http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.3.2.zip
http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.3.2.tar.gz

Works well so far.

ITIL v3 Foundation December 28, 2007

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Good news; the EXIN envelope arrived tonight – and I passed the ITIL v3 Foundation.

Now I’m looking for the ‘exact word’ on what’s needed for the v3 Diploma; it looks like I need to take the "ITIL Managers v2 to Managers v3 Bridging course" which is pushed to 2008.

Windows Easy Transfer Companion December 26, 2007

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Nice beta from Microsoft. This lets you move settings and applications from XP to Vista.

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ITIL update

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I passed the ITIL v2 Managers exams. Just missed a distinction on the Service Support – that’s the slightly sad part.

Otherwise good news.

ITIL v2 Managers results December 24, 2007

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The results are in the post. Several people who were on the training sent out a ‘warning’ email saying they were arriving and to watch out for an anonymous looking white envelope.

I guess it’ll take a few extra days to get here.. Still waiting for the ITIL v3 Foundation results too.

This is worse than waiting for A-level results.

It’s Christmas

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I’ve been a-dancin’ around the house with the kids – Pogues on the speakers.