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This morning I did an upgrade on my plesk server to 8.2.1. This mostly went ok, but the main problem afterwards was that webmail was no longer working for domains.

Instead webmail.domain was redirecting to the default domain on that box. The solution is to rebuild the web server config files with the following command:

/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/websrvmng -a -v

Credit for this solution goes to poster on plesk forums…

So we are making the big move this weekend. For a long time now I’ve vowed to pay someone to help us move when we finally get around to it. And I got my way.

This morning two guys and a van from Man with a Van showed up first thing and man were they fast! In two hours they loaded up their Luton truck thingy with nearly everything we have. It got to the point were I had to decide to get them to leave most of the stuff in the bedroom as we have loads of friends and family turning up tomorrow to help us move. If I had let these guys there wouldn’t have been anything left for them!

So, top marks to the men with a van. Awesome service.

My good pal Busta has recently posted his latest mix.

Check it out for some dark jungle mix lovin.

The recent announcement of video calling in Skype 2.0 prompted me to download it and have a look

For some reason I haven’t looked at it before.

Anyway, downloaded it and it worked first time, something I have yet to see with other voip providers.

The interface is polished, theres no setup to speak of and their pricing is very competitive as far as I can tell (I primarily use voip to call the family back in Ireland, none of whom have a landline…).

Good stuff.

Well I probably won’t be able to afford the real thing for christmas, but maybe one of these will do.

We’ve been using Asterisk here in the office for several months now. It handles our voip phones and also incoming faxes.

We have always had a problem with the fax line ‘jamming’. Every now and then the fax would get stuck while receiving a fax. To rectify this we would have to restart asterisk.

This morning one of our clients couldn’t get a fax to us. It kept jamming at our end. They must have tried about four or fives times. Same problem each time.

So I decided to try and fix this problem.

To cut a long and boring post short, I found this posting to the Asterisk Users mailing list which has a fix. It involves increasing the gain on the card that has the fax line.

I gave it a go and on the next attempt the client’s fax came through perfectly. Coincidence?

Perhaps, but this tip from Paul is definitely worth a look.

The rails express blog written by Stefan Kaes, author of railsbench is a great resource for anyone interested in wringing a bit (or a lot in some cases) more performance out of Ruby on Rails.

Some great tips on there.

Good stuff.