Author: Mike
SSL Certificates and SRV Records
I originally planned to use my own reseller account’s DNS hosting with an existing domain, but I woke up one morning utterly convinced that I needed to own chinwag.im and I don’t have reseller access to that TLD through my normal setup. I picked it up through my Gandi account, but their DNS interface is … well, “awful” is being generous.
Extra Modules and Dependencies
This article is part of an ongoing series of posts, there’s an index here. I was originally going to make this post about SRV records and SSL certificates at this point, but StartSSL won’t issue me a certificate for chinwag.im until the domain is older than three days (at the time of writing it’s only … [Read more …]
Configuring Prosody
This article is part of an ongoing series of posts, there’s an index here. Environment I’ve started with Ubuntu 14.04 as the platform for this project, mainly due to it having a good selection of the packages we’ll need at suitableĀ versions, and it’s a well-tested option for the software we’ll be deploying. I have registered … [Read more …]
XMPP Server Software
This article is part of an ongoing series of posts, there’s an index here. The base operating system for this project will be Ubuntu 14.04, mainly because a lot of what we’ll need is conveniently packaged for it at appropriate versions. Not much of what is going on is going to be OS-specific though and … [Read more …]
Building a Public XMPP Service
This article is part of an ongoing series of posts, there’s an index here. So for nearly five years now, I’ve been running a public XMPP server to support a small community. Since it first appeared, XMPP (or Jabber) has had its ups and downs but has never really seemed to get any mainstream traction, … [Read more …]
Stupid Post
The first post is going to be the dumbest, so can we just get it over with? Great. Thanks! Here is a pigeon that once looked at me through my office window. It’s almost certainly dead by now.
Sailing!
This is a repost from an old blog, dated appropriately It’s amazing when a mundane evening turns into something incredibly cool. I got a call, just after 7pm, from a friend of mine who I’ve been doing some work with on and off over the years – Brett. He’s a bit of a sailing enthusiast, … [Read more …]
We Told Them …
This is a repost from an old blog, dated appropriately The client wanted a huge amount of disk space, cheaply. An off-the-shelf board and a bunch of drives were duly purchased, and a Linux distribution installed. Then they called me. “OK,” I said. “Software RAID. No problem. We’ll configure Samba up, make a huge volume … [Read more …]