My new Nexus 5X was a bit troublesome on pure Android as I was used to Cyanogenmod (nightly snapshots). So I had to do what a girl has to do: Flash that thing. Add Gapps and be happy. Practically, the phone was rebooting every time a phone call was made or received. What I did miss was that […]
Unbreaking ownCloud with php-7.0.6
Fix not needed with OwnCloud 9.0.2! Not sure where to start. Good bug reports are usually showing a way to reproduce the bug – so here we go: First, have ownCloud 9.0.1 running with a Redis Cache as a backend. Nothing funky so far besides the database not living on the same box. After a quick update of […]
He’s dead, Jim
The last power outage here led to casualties. One of them was the power supply of the main server which died in doing its job after five long years. That’s the reason for this site and its services being unreachable for about six hours. Thank you for your patience and understanding.
Need for Speed – PHP using a Redis Server
Today was about optimizing my LAMP stack here because as you know, speed can only be replaced by more speed. Last time I was moving my MySQL server to a different machine, but I was certain that there’s more to be done for the ultimate speed gain. In this case it was luck discovering some more options. Just […]
Messing around with a database
I have several virtual machines running in my current setup, offering various services. This is not a bad thing per se – in fact, it increases security by encapsulating services a bit. On the other hand, I ended up with a huge mass of MySQL instances serving one or two databases. And this might come in a bit […]
Elephone P8000 and the OTA disaster
Careful guys, there is an update for the brand new P8000 phone out there which semi-bricks your phone. After this warning, it might already be too late as you might have just flashed the update like I did. That way the phone got stuck in a boot loop and you are litterally stuck for a while. The problem […]