Machine is up again
2006-01-03Finally, my machine is back after replacing harddisk (which is reached its normal life cycle) with a new one. I end up installing Ubuntu after a series of accidents — I downloaded Debian netinst CD and burned it, yet after reaching data center and inserting new CD into machine, it simply becomes a Ubuntu CD! Still not investigated the reason yet, but my first impression told me I might have burnt the wrong ISO image. Anyway, this accident isn’t so bad — now I have more reason to test the ubuntu server version.
Perhaps quite a lot of web apps using PHP aren’t so compatible with PHP5, so have to downgrade to PHP 4.x after discovering some web apps simply won’t work with PHP5. Most importantly, I don’t have the time for debugging.
After being bombarded with file fetching clients (like Netant and something like that), I decided to replace vsftpd with pure-ftpd. No, I didn’t mean vsftpd isn’t good, actually it has been robust and secure enough to serve files for a long time. I just want to see if some other ftp servers can do that as well. Besides, I want to test the ftp UTF8 support documented in RFC 2640, and see if it can indeed serve localized greeting messages and file names. Sadly ubuntu/debian version of pure-ftpd doesn’t compile with localization by default 
[2006-01-03 16:53 Edit: pure-ftpd doesn't have RFC 2640 support at all, though there exists a patch for this purpose.]
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