Tech, filmmaking, & thoughts.
Jacob "Boom Shadow" Tirey
A linux web hosting administrator, a professional production sound man, and a renegade cop without nothing left to lose.... Ok, that last part is made up. In all seriousness, my passion in life is to help people; whether that be with help running their sites or with their productions. The name Boom Shadow was given to me by a great group of filmmakers called Star Wipe Films. back in 2005 and has been with me since. One of these days, I will post the full story, and many more, here. As a side note, I love my mac for video editing, my CentOS for web hosting, and my Windows box for Stepmania. Don't give me any OS hate, cause I don't care :P Also, nano is still the bomb!
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Posts by Jacob "Boom Shadow" Tirey
Fix: Fantastico is not installed at the default location
Jan 20th
Fantastico De Luxe is an automatic installer for many 3rd party programs such as WordPress, Joomla, and OsCommerce. It integrates directly with your hosting application such as cPanel. Fantastico is most common automation software used by hosting companies. I personally do not prefer Fantastico, instead opt to use Installatron instead. It has a much better interface with many more features.
#1 – The ProblemAfter installing Fantastico De Luxe, you may receive this error when trying to access it from cPanel:
##################### Fantastico is not installed at the default location /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/fantastico. Either move the Fantastico directory from it's current location to /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/fantastico OR enable More >
Fix: Plesk Watchdog error of 01-01-2011
Jan 14th
#1 – The Problem
Ever since January 1st, 2011 (when the new year rolled in), Plesk servers that have Watchdog installed have started giving errors on the crons. Administrators receiving these cron error emails will see something like this:
##################################################### Cron Daemon <root@vps.server.com> to root@vps.server.com date Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 12:15 AM subject Cron <root@vps> /usr/local/psa/libexec/modules/watchdog/cp/pack-sysstats day ERROR: WDExc Error occurred while processing database query: 'MySQL query failed: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'group by service_id, type, round(unix_timestamp(time) / 200, More >
How to install Icecast
Dec 19th
# Updates # 06/22/11 – Updated this guide to use the newest version of Icecast (2.3.2).
*Note – This does NOT work on 64 bit CentOS (x86_64); it will only install for 32 bit (i386). If you need to install on 64 bit, use the guide found here: http://support.cast-control.net/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=69. Once you got it installed, you can start from my Step #3 – Configuration. I tested their guide on my personal server and it worked perfectly.
Icecast Installation Guide for CentOS 5I ran across a request from a customer recently asking me to install Icecast. I didn’t find any easy guides More >
Definitely Do Not Push This Button
Sep 25th
A close group of friends made this video a while back, Star Wipe Films http://www.starwipefilms.com. This was a T-mobile ad contest for the new (at the time) G1 phone. The winning entry was to be used in a national ad campaign from what I understand. Though they didn’t win, I still love the product. I personally was, unfortunately, not part of this particular video.
Every video put out by this group is always so entertaining and so well made. Granted, I am a member but that does not affect my judgement. I have been part of numerous other groups and projects More >
