Archive for June 11, 2007

Safari Released for Windows

Now all us Mac wannabes can run Safari.

http://www.apple.com/safari/download/

Socialverse Realtime Social Networking Platform

socialverse.thumbnail Socialverse Realtime Social Networking PlatformWe’re looking feedback! Sign on to http://www.socialverse.com/ and tell us what you think. All comments, positive or negative, welcome.

Real World. Real People. Real Time.

Socialverse is a live interactive local media platform and social network. Socialverse lets you discover the real world, with real people, in real time online.

Socialverse connects you with your neighborhood.

  • Meet your neighbors.
  • Chat with friends and family.
  • Share photos.
  • Find restaurants and stores. Read reviews and write your own.
  • Reach customers for your business.
  • Search local classifieds and post your own.
  • Buy, sell, and trade real goods or virtual goods all in the same place.

Socialverse connects you with the world.

  • Hang out with friends and family around the globe.
  • Explore exciting new cities.
  • Plan trips.
  • Ask locals for must-see hot spots.
  • Make friends worldwide.

Discover your world online, from next door to far away.

OpenCoffee Club, Los Angeles

Simple things to improve mail delivery

To avoid getting flagged as spam:

  • Avoid all X-Priority headers
  • Avoid all X-Mailer headers
  • Use an SPF record like youdomain.com. 3600 IN TXT "v=spf1 ip4:123.123.123.123 -all"
  • Use DKIM signing
  • Ensure mail server’s DNS resolved to the same name for both forward / reverse
  • Ensure MX record matches mail server’s resolved DNS name
  • Apply for AOL whitelist status http://postmaster.aol.com/

MogileFS HOWTO

Check out the latest copy of the MogileFS source code (recommended)

svn checkout http://code.sixapart.com/svn/mogilefs

Install common prereqs

[download:prereqs.sh]

perl -MCPAN -e ‘install Danga::Socket’ perl -MCPAN -e ‘install Gearman::Client’ perl -MCPAN -e ‘install Gearman::Server’ perl -MCPAN -e ‘install Gearman::Client::Async’ perl -MCPAN -e ‘install Net::Netmask’ perl -MCPAN -e ‘install IO::WrapTie’ perl -MCPAN -e ‘install IO::AIO’ perl -MCPAN -e ‘install List::MoreUtils’ perl -MCPAN -e ‘install Path::Class’ perl -MCPAN -e ‘install Perlbal’

[/download]

Go ahead and install the servers

cd mogilefs/trunk/server perl Makefile.PL chmod 755 /usr/bin/mogilefsd adduser mogile mkdir /home/mogilefs

Install the client module

cd api/perl/MogileFS-Client perl Makefile.PL make install

Install the admin utility scripts

cd utils perl Makefile.PL make install

Create the MySQL database

mysqladmin create mogilefs

Setup the SQL Permissions

grant all on mogilefs.* TO ‘mogile’@'%’ identified by ‘some-password’; flush privileges;

Load the schema

./mogdbsetup --dbhost=localhost --dbname=mogilefs --dbuser=mogile --dbpass=some-password

Create configurations

mkdir /etc/mogilefs

Add the following to /etc/mogilefs/mogilefsd.conf

db_dsn DBI:mysql:mogilefs:tracker.yourdomain.com db_user mogile db_pass some-password conf_port 7001 listener_jobs 5 old_repl_compat 0 lib /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/

* you may need to change the lib path relative to your system

Create the storage server config in /etc/mogilefs/mogstored.conf

httplisten=0.0.0.0:7500 mgmtlisten=0.0.0.0:7501 docroot=/home/mogilefs/

Start the tracker

su mogile -c “mogilefsd -c /etc/mogilefs/mogilefsd.conf --daemon”

Start the storage server on all the servers that will be providing the role

su mogile -c “mogstored --daemon”

Configure your domains and replication patterns

mogadm domain add [domain] mogadm class add [domain] [className]

Tell the tracker about all the hosts and devices acting as a storage server (mogstored)

mogadm host add [hostname] mogadm device add [hostname] [devX]

Make the device directory (device names need to be GLOBALLY unique; thus dev1 can never exist anywhere else on any other mogstored server. The prefix must be dev, followed by an integer greater than 0)

mkdir /home/mogilefs/dev1

Swish-e RPM HOWTO

Install the dependencies

yum install pcre-devel perl-Date-Calc perl-HTML-Template perl-Template-Toolkit libxml2-devel

Download the latests source

cd /usr/src/ wget http://swish-e.org/distribution/latest.tar.gz tar -zvxf latest.tar.gz rm -f latest.tar.gz

Make the RPM tar

./configure --enable-incremental make dist

Copy the resulting tarball to RPM’s redhat/SOURCES directory

cp *.tar.gz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES cp rpm/swish-e.xpm /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

Build the RPM

rpmbuild -ba rpm/swish-e.spec

Install the new sources

rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/swish*