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Backup A Directory With Email

I wasn’t able to sleep, so I wrote this Perl script to backup a directory and mail yourself a copy. Change the variables in CAPS to suit your needs. It’s best to run this script as a cronjob.
Download a plaintext copy here.
Updated 5/8/2005: I’ve modified the code to use the File::Find library instead of a [...]

iPod vending machine

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iPod vending machine, originally uploaded by sbisson.

via: Boing Boing

Cold Ray Hosting Packages

We’ve decided upon some preliminary web hosting packages for Cold Ray Hosting:

Lite Plan
Standard Plan

Disk Space
200 MB
1000 MB

Transfer
5 GB
20 GB

MySQL Databases
5
30

Domains Hosted
1
3

Monthly Price
$2.00
$6.00

All packages include:
- An easy to use Control Panel
- SSH, SFTP, and SCP access
- Unlimited FTP accounts
- Unlimited email accounts
- Unlimited sub-domains
- Full DNS control
- Webalizer statistics
Our website is currently in construction and we [...]

Bad Meets Evil

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Penguin Meets A Huge Leech, originally uploaded by zeroion.

Perhaps the penguin represents Linux and the leech represents Microsoft, who has been “leeching” ideas from Apple and Linux. Unfortunately I didn’t have any apples in my [...]

Server Tweaking

I’ve just finished some intensive tweaking of the Cold Ray Hosting servers. I was able to reduce the memory used by Apache, our web daemon, and MySQL, our database daemon. By reducing the memory used by each daemon, I was able to release memory to other active processes.
The immediate benefit of my tweaks is a [...]

coldray.com’s wiki

Now that all my midterms are over, I’ve been able to dedicate some time to working on my web hosting company, coldray.com. Our system has been up for a few months, and a user-friendly control panel is now undergoing testing. This weekend, I’ve added one more component to our web hosting offerings: self-service support in [...]

I Went Over Gmail’s Counter!

Notice the number next to the “debian-user” label…
UPDATE: Apparently I didn’t max out gmail’s new message counter. The debian-user label counter has moved up to 10055.

Daily del.icio.us Links Script for Wordpress

I’ve been using this PHP script to generate the daily “Links” posts from my del.icio.us links. Although the script works, it has some annoying bugs. For example, if there are no links for the day, it’ll still make a post which I have to manually delete. Furthermore, it’s written in PHP, a language I haven’t [...]

Class Websites

In case you’d like to know the official websites for my classes, I’ve listed them below. If you plan on taking any of them, downloading a copy of the websites using a spidering tool might be advisable - i.e., the posted solutions could come in handy. Hint: you might need to disable robots.txt parsing and [...]

Online Schedule’s Daily Maintenance

I have to echo Matthew Haughey’s comments regarding admins taking down their servers for maintenance on a daily or weekly basis: is it really necessary? UC Berkeley takes down their online schedule and other services for a few hours everyday for maintenance:

I think taking down servers for maintenance is a great idea, and that more [...]