• Webby - Useful for all the small static sites you have to write
• A new web server for rails - and it is Thin
• Installing plugins with piston

• Checking disks for errors using the badblocks command
• Practicing the art of traffic shaping
• Dealing with EVMS issues

Again I would reiterate that using xfs on large partitions in unwise. In order to attempt repair this disk (it remains to be seen if it will be successful) I had to boot into single user mode, cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdx xfscrypt, xfs_repair -t 60 -v /dev/mapper/xfscrypt. This is a dual-code 2.4GHz machine with 2GB of DDR2 RAM. The repair process has been running for over 10 hours so far, is 75% done with “Phase 4”, and estimates almost another 2 hours to go. It has also consumed 1.9GB of resident memory and 6.6GB of virtual memory. And of course, my computer is unusable at this time (I’m entering this from my laptop). Not exactly the kind of thing one wants from a filesystem.

Update: After running for 15 hours I gave up and decided to take the time to move the data off the disk, reformat it with ext3, and restore the data.

It’s not recent but SILC server 1.1 was released about 2 months ago. Unfortunately it still doesn’t fix what I see as the biggest issue: that the server cannot be run on a private IP behind NAT. This feature is in the SILC TODO file for features for 1.2 and later. The question is will it arrive sooner than IPv6 adoption that alleviates much of the need for NAT.

I remember when I first saw the keyboards with both a number pad and another set of arrow keys. I thought they were too wide then and I think so even more now. For my desk the extra width on the right side of the keyboard doesn’t fit. So I’ve been trying to find a good replacement. But it seems like most smaller keyboards are very small, laptop size, which is smaller than I would like. Anyway here’s some things I found.