In his blog, Nigel McNie provides a nice hands-on intro­duc­tion to LXC. Along with this, he provides us with a set of scripts that do the work quite nicely. I cloned that repos­it­ory and added a script for Ubuntu Lucid. It’s quite handy to me, sup­posedly also for some­body else out there?

A git repos­it­ory is avail­able at Git­Hub: http://github.com/phbaer/lxc-tools

I finally decided to move my gal­lery to a (more spe­cial­ised) ser­vice pro­vider. Maybe you already noticed the new nam­ing scheme. Even though Men­alto Gal­lery is a great piece of soft­ware, I wanted to have an easy-to-use, safe solu­tion that does not require manual soft­ware updates or upgrades to be installed. I’m get­ting lazy, I know :)

So, the new gal­lery is still reach­able via http://phbaer.net/gallery/ but it will be redir­ec­ted to http://photos.phbaer.net/. Unfor­tu­nately, Smug­Mug offers no secured con­nec­tions to the user gal­ler­ies. You will fur­ther need to enable JavaS­cript, just in case you deac­tiv­ated it.

Please do not be alarmed by the new domain name of miss­ing cap­ab­il­it­ies of the new ser­vice. I hope you still enjoy brows­ing through my col­lec­tion and do not hes­it­ate to com­ment or rate the pictures! :)

Pre­sum­ably due to a SSM bug in the Linux ker­nel, the backup npw.net server crashed some days ago. Since my ISP is about 500 km from here, I had to wait until Monday for my pro­vider to restart the server. Now it is up again. The fol­low­ing mes­sage was logged to syslog:

Jul 18 08:39:20 localhost sm-mta[30237]: rejecting connections on daemon MTA-v6: load average: 978

Quite a high load, isn’t it? :)