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Web Development Projects

In my spare time (limited though it is!) I have been working on a website for a local church (where my better half happens to work) and am quite impressed with the start that’s been made…

 

So how about visiting http://www.holytrinitybelbroughton.co.uk – and if you have any ideas or suggestions fill in the form on the Contact page.

I have also redone my homepage at: http://www.johnnyward.me.uk and modified some settings on my main blog to fix the URL rewrites (http://www.johnnyward.co.uk). not bad for a new year so far…

Server Problems

For some reason a fairly important server won’t install Windows 2008 SP2 or any other updates, I’ve followed the errors in the event log and come across this excellent how-to to fix the issue: http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/408

Exchange 2010 SP2

Microsoft have just released Exchange 2010 SP2 – a little over a month since I built both the new email servers on SP1 – how annoying is that! – anyway, after reading the new features list provided here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/05/redmond_exchange_2010_sp2/ I am not too fussed, and will not be planning an upgrade anytime soon, maybe 6-12 months time I think…

Cent-OS Vs. Ubuntu

This is a preview into some thoughts I have regarding a full article on this subject currently I am using a number of Linux systems for various things such as web servers, email servers, network monitoring, firewall etc. I cannot really decide which Linux distro I prefer as I’m using 2x Ubuntu (Natty and Oneirc) and 3/4 Centos (5 and 6) – I find these are the best freebies but I cannot decide whether one is better than the other… time to do some testing

 

UPDATE:

OK so I have to say that traditionally Ubuntu was my OS of choice; quick and easy to install, great package management and lots of good tools in the repositories…however, I have to say Cent-OS 5.7 and 6 are very powerful OSes. yum is a little fiddlier that aptitude but is just as effective and the overall feel of Cent-OS is that it is more stable and enterprise ready. I’m sure I will have more experiences as the months go on and I will post updates here…

Flushing DNS on Mac OSX

I primarily work with web servers, and I use lookupd -flushcache all of the time to clear my DNS cache.

This morning was moving some websites around using my newly-upgraded Mac, and I went to flush my DNS cache with lookupd and I got a command not found error. It seems that lookupd has been removed in 10.5 and replaced with dscacheutil.

So now I can flush my DNS cache with dscacheutil -flushcache