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I KNOW there is a howto for this, and its very useful but i remember there were a few other little tricks to actually get it setup – and some gotcha’s with the service being rendered unstartable after a reboot intermittently – which i hope to address here. And Matt couldn’t get it working…

http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/showthread.php?t=168138

Iron Horse Sunday Team 2009

Comedy gold.

download the binaries from

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Perlbal/

standard perl module prerequisites include:

Danga::Socket
Sys::Syscall
IO::AIO

find these with
sudo apt-cache search socket | grep danga

(and just) install these with
sudo apt-get install libdanga-socket-perl
sudo apt-get install libsys-syscall-perl
sudo apt-get install libio-aio-perl

untar the downloaded file and run
sudo perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

sudo mkdir /etc/perlbal
copy the conf file from http://www.livejournal.com/doc/server/lj.install.supplemental_sw.perlbal.html
into /etc/perlbal/perlbal.conf (this is where perlbal looks by default for its conf file)

make sure that Apache or any other daemon isn’t already bound to port 80. Assign a different port, like 8080 to apache if its running on the same system.

The broken wrist, all fixed up. Now my hand has more titanium than my bike.

Fractured Wrist

Before I moved from Perth to Melbourne a few years back:

• It was OK to speak “says” instead of “sez“
• Nobody picked me up on saying “nothink” instead of “nothing“
• Going for a surf before / after work was a possibility
• Checking www.bom.gov.au was only for sailors
• It was Aussie to own a commodore.
• Roadworthy certificate? what on earth for?
• Coffee was only for those unable to drink beer
• Going to the local watering hole was a drive not a walk

And just as people who run technical companies are reaching an apex of confidence in their ability to invent new forms of community based on sharing everything, craigslist still treats social life as dangerously complex, deserving the most jaded caution. Corporate isolation, user anonymity, refusal of excessive profit, glacial adoption of new features: These all signal Newmark and Buckmaster’s wariness about what humans, including themselves, might do if given the chance. There may be a peace sign on every page, but the implicit political philosophy of craigslist has a deeply conservative, even a tragic cast. Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist follows none of it, and every day it grows.

http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/magazine/17-09/ff_craigslist