AVOIDING APACHE MAX REQUEST WORKERS ERRORS

[Update 2025-10-09… turns out my first great solution doesn’t work after all, updated to reflect new options.]

AI'S ACTUAL IMPACT

Two years after OpenAI launched ChatGPT 3.5, humanity is not on the cusp of extinction and Elon Musk seems more responsible for job loss than any AI agent.

HOW DO I WARM UP AN IP ADDRESS?

After years on the waiting list, May First was just given a /24 block of IP addresses. Excellent.

GMAIL VS TOR VS PRIVACY

A legit email went to spam. Here are the redacted, relevant headers:

MARIADB MYSTERY

I keep getting an error in our backup logs: Sep 11 05:08:03 Warning: mysqldump: Error 2013: Lost connection to server during query when dumping table `1C4Uonkwhe_options` at row: 1402 Sep 11 05:08:03 Warning: Failed to dump mysql databases ic_wp It’s a WordPress database having trouble dumping the options table.

WHO ATE MY RAM?

One of our newest servers, with a hefty 256GB of RAM, recently began killing processes via the oomkiller.

USERS WITHOUT PASSWORDS

About fifteen years ago, while debugging a database probem, I was horrified to discover that we had two root users - one with the password I had been using and one without a password. Nooo!

WHAT AM I MISSING ABOUT AI?

Last month I blogged about how the mainstream media is focusing on the wrong parts of the Artificial Intelligence/ChatGPT story.

ENOUGH ABOUT THE AI APOCALYPSE ALREADY

After watching Democracy Now’s segment on artificial intelligence I started to wonder - am I out of step on this topic?

CRANKY OLD TIMERS SHOULD KNOW PERL

I act like an old timer (I’ve been around linux for 25 years and I’m cranky about new tech that is not easily maintained and upgraded) yet somehow I don’t know perl. How did that happen?