Tag Archives: hardy

PHP5 vs. daylight saving in Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS

October 8, 2008 – 16:35

Much of Australia went into DST mode this week, with the only holdouts being the odd little backwaters of our country (generally referred to as “Queensland”) for whom daylight saving is a threat to curtains or farm animals… and anyone relying on PHP5’s bundled timezone database.
I filed a bug and test case regarding the problem [...]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Also tagged daylight saving, dst, lts, php, timezone, tzdata, Ubuntu | Comments (14)

Smooth upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my Linode

April 24, 2008 – 22:31

A few days ago I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on my Linode VM (the machine which hosts this blog). I had upgraded to 7.10 a while back, so it was unlikely to be much of a challenge… But it was great to see another very smooth upgrade, without any manual workarounds required at all.
While [...]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Also tagged 8.04, linode, lts, software, Ubuntu, upgrade | Comments (6)

Faster OpenSSH 4.7p1 in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

January 10, 2008 – 09:38

A couple of weeks ago, while chatting with Rob, I mentioned that John gave me an awesome tip that I use all the time: The pget command in lftp, particularly for sftp downloads. That’s right: Not only does lftp provide a sweet interface for sftp, but it can also make multiple connections and download in [...]

By Jeff Waugh | Posted in General | Also tagged openssh, performance, ssh, Ubuntu | Comments (20)