Michael Marley's Website
Submitted by michael on Sat, 03/06/2010 - 13:29I am Michael Marley, a freshman at North Carolina State University. This is my personal website.
Flash-free Site
Submitted by michael on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 07:57I just thought it was worth mentioning, but my site does not use Adobe Crash Flash in any way, shape, or form. It is a crashy, proprietary, closed-source system and has no place on open-source Linux computers and servers. It also has very poor support for Linux altogether, and especially 64-bit Linux, so I am boycotting it.
Downtime
Submitted by michael on Fri, 02/26/2010 - 19:50After a recent kernel upgrade on my webserver (from 2.6.33-rc8 to final), my webserver has decided that it only likes to boot up about once out of every five tries. I had to wait until I came home from college to troubleshoot it, and that is why my site has been down for a few days. If you tried to send me email, don't worry, because my email is no longer handled by my webserver and I received it anyway. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Mail server switch
Submitted by michael on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 07:18I recently (about a day ago) switched all of my email from going through a local mail stack (with Postfix and Dovecot) to going through Google's mail server. I made the switch to cut down on the ridiculous amount of Spam I have been getting lately. It is highly unlikely that any emails didn't make it through, but if you sent me something and I did not respond you might want to send it again. Thanks!
Happy New Year!
Submitted by michael on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 22:44Happy New Year, everyone! And remember to be Safe!
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MySQL Update
Submitted by michael on Thu, 12/31/2009 - 22:44I don't know how I missed it, but MySQL got updated 4 times since the official version in Ubuntu. Today, I just compiled and installed MySQL 5.1.41 on my server. Bugfixes and security improvements only, I believe. I am excited for the release of MySQL 5.5, however, because it should bring performance improvements.
Web Design: Ahavajewelrydesigns.com
Submitted by michael on Mon, 12/28/2009 - 07:59This is the first site design I have done for anyone but myself. Ahava Jewelry Designs is a small, one-person jewelry design business located in Burlington, NC. I designed and eCommerce site for Ahava Jewelry Designs to help expand the market and increase profit. The content management system is written in PHP with a MySQL database, and the HTML code produced conforms to the W3C XHTML 1.0 Transitional standard. Right now, the backend code is messy and slow, but I will be working on a major refactoring of it soon. You should check out the website.
New HTTPD
Submitted by michael on Sat, 12/26/2009 - 05:12A few days ago, I switched the HTTPD application from Apache to Lighttpd 1.5 (pronounced lighty). I had read in many places on the Internet that it was faster, especially for Drupal based sites like this one. I have decided to keep it, so now my site will most likely be a small bit faster.
Merry CHRISTmas everyone!
Submitted by michael on Thu, 12/24/2009 - 19:52I wanna wish you a merry CHRISTmas, from the bottom of my heart!
PS. There are no typos in this post or its title.
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Done with exams!!
Submitted by michael on Wed, 12/16/2009 - 11:28I am completely done with my exams!!!!! Now I get to go home for three weeks!!!!!!!
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