I’m about to move some web servers from a dedicated CentOS LAMP box at a traditional hosting environment to Amazon Web Services.

There is quite alot to consider and there seems to be more architecture planning involved in running a system there at Amazon’s service and a little bit different way of doing things than the traditional web hosting environment, but it also opens up a great potential to testing out dev servers or rolling dev servers into productions servers, etc. etc. not to mention the scalability and redundancy offered.

While doing research, I keep seeing more and more and more about Ubuntu, which sparked me to do a little research and see what all the hubabub was all about.

I’m now considering running Linux Ubuntu 10.04 Lynx server as my server instead of CentOS.

Does anyone out there in the Lotus blogosphere have any experience with moving from Fedora/CentOS to Debian/Ubuntu flavors? If so, I’d love to have a casual chat. More importantly, is anyone using Amazon Web Services? It seems like quite a considerably more complex operation than throwing a few physical boxes in a rack and being done with them.

Now in Thunderbird 3.1, “Message actions such as reply and forward have moved from the toolbar onto the message header itself.”


find /home/ -type f -size +5000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'


You can replace the “5000″ above with a number of your choosing. The example above finds all files larger than 5 Megabytes.

If you just want to find a particular filename try:

find | grep searchterm


where searchterm contains the part or all of the filename that you are looking for.

These commands must be run if you add any custom configurations to /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf

This is because in cpanel/whm, the apache configuration is saved into a database for safe keeping, and when whm updates or rebuilds apache configuration it pulls the previous configuration from database.

This command must be run after the save
/usr/local/cpanel/bin/apache_conf_distiller –update

This command can be run to test if you changes were saved because it reloads the httpd.conf file from database.
/usr/local/cpanel/bin/build_apache_conf

I should also say that this is for Centos 5 servers (and probably RHEL too).

I have a gmail account and use it to synch my non-work/personal CalDAV calendar between my iPhone, different macs at home, and can access my personal calendar on my PC at work with Lotus Notes.

I’m also now able to synch my personal to-do lists (or tasks you may not want in your corporate Domino mailbox for whatever reason) between my iPhone, PC at work, and Macs at home (both via Firefox sidebar bookmarks).

I tried setting this up on a new computer today and wasn’t able to drag the google tasks to my firefox bookmarks tool bar.

I kept getting the error message “Close this window to resume using Tasks in Gmail.”

I found this second post which shows the exact URL that you need to bookmark, and also highlights how to either set this up in Google Chrome, or set up your tasks in a desktop application.

If you are using Gmail, google docs, google tasks, google calendar, or you use it just to synch between your devices and home computer I would highly recommend giving it a read.

Of course, you are all only using your Blackberry’s to get to your Lotus Domino mail file aren’t you…. (maybe not).

try mdfind

It seems to work a little better than “locate”

Leopard, Tiger, Cheetah, Alley Cat, Tom Cat, and now Snow Leapord…

I always get confused as to which “dot” release is associated with which beast.

Will Snow Leapord be 10.6?

The wikipedia article on Apple OS X has a table which highlights which beast goes with what “dot” release, but I don’t want to visit it each time I forget.

What do you think about paying $29 USD for a “dot” release of the OS? Snow Leopard comes out at the end of the month, and I think they are pushing the envelop a bit.

One of the features listed on the Apple website is:

More reliable disk eject.

Snow Leopard improves the reliability of ejecting discs and external drives. Sometimes when an application or process is using the files on a drive, Mac OS X prevents you from ejecting it, but you don’t always know why. In Snow Leopard, you’ll get fewer of those errors and when you do get them, you’ll see exactly which application is using the drive, so you can quit it and eject the drive properly.

I guess I’ve just gotten spoiled with all the frequent free updates that I get from both MS and Apple that paying for one seems absurd.

I think the real issue is that Lotus Notes 6.5 expires in only 8 months.

the 7.0x EOS breaks the crutch of the upgrading from 6.5.x to 7.0.4

If an organization knows that they HAVE to upgrade, then they won’t simply upgrade servers to 7.0.4 and live with any clients issues to minimize any problems or logistical issues and cost of upgrading to 8.5.

Now there is a more solid business reason for upgrading to 8.5 and getting away from the old code and old client once and for good.