Subversion tricks
December 29, 2004
Subversion continues to dig up new tricks from dark recesses up it's sleeve to befuddle the unwary. I ran into another one of these after refactoring some java code. Some classes that had been placed in a package named com.raditha.colors...
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uptime
December 28, 2004
07:53:50 up 6 days, 15:32, 1 user, load average: 0.48, 0.18, 0.06 That result from an inovation for uptime ladies and gentles shows that this computer was runing continously for 6 days and 15 hours without being restarted. Say...
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PHP require vs include and time wasting
December 23, 2004
I have written about the futility of attempting to speed of applications by compiler options or small code level changes. They simply do not work. If you look at the PHP mailing list archives you will find countless thread arguing...
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mysql upgrade
December 21, 2004
Many people would dearly love to switch from windows to linux but circumstances prevent them from doing so. Similarly many people would stop using mysql and switch to postgresql if not for the strings that hold them back. I fall...
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opendarwin on pearpc
December 20, 2004
Having installed PearPc a couple of days ago, I decided to have a go at installing opendarwin as a guest operating system. It turned out to be a much more pleasent experience than installation of opendarwin as a OS that...
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opendarwin
December 17, 2004
I tried my hand at setting up opendarwin, the process was a bit scary, the shivers begin when you have a look at the fdisk program that looks so different from what you find on linux. (what command do you...
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Cannot find libpq-fe.h.
December 16, 2004
The PHP installation I described yesterday had another twist, this time to do with the postgresql extension. Fedora Core 3 distribution includes the RPMs for postgresql, the version is 7.4.6. Before upgrading to fedora I used to have a postgres...
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underquoted definition
December 15, 2004
When I compiled PHP after upgrading to Fedora Core 3, it was without two of my favourite extension, xdebug and turck cd mmcache. I was in a hurry at the time but when I finally got around to compiling them...
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subversion dump and restore
December 12, 2004
Subversion is full of suprises, whenever you start to think 'I am finally getting the hang of this' it throws you another riddle to solve. I ran into one of those riddles when I attempted to back and recover the...
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Religion Reiserfs vs ext3
December 10, 2004
Statements such as perl is better than PHP spark off bloody religious wars among developers. In the admin world it's questions such as which distro is better or which file system is better that lead to divisions. As with programming...
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Movable type bug?
December 8, 2004
I updated to movable type 3.121 a few days ago. It seems to have a bug, when I attempted to rebuild this blog, I started getting this error out of the blue: Building entry 'Encrypted filesystem on linux' failed: Build...
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The mystery of the Sourceforge Statistics
December 7, 2004
Megaupload is once again back in the top 1% at Source Forge. To be precise the stats for 4th December placed it at 99.42. As far as I am concerned that's a good thing, but how accurate are these stats?...
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Subversion
December 6, 2004
I have been threatening to adapt subversion for a long long time. Finally I have taken the plunge by placing this site into a a subversion repository. What stuck me immidiately was the fact that the size of the folder...
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Encrypted filesystem on linux
December 5, 2004
I had a sudden attack of paranoia and thought of placing some important stuff like source code and cryptographic keys on an encrypted file system. The losetup man page has a very good description of how this is done but...
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Boot Fedora from a reiserfs root
December 4, 2004
If you attempted to boot a fedora core installation out of a root partition of reiserfs type you will most likely encounter an error, it may look something like this. VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on /dev/hda1 mount: error 22...
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Corrupt Partition Table Recovery.
December 3, 2004
This is the story of a corrupt partition table recovery in linux, a story with a happy ending. The hard disk in question was a 40Gg Maxtor, after one of it's partitions was deleted fdisk started reporting a partition which...
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The Fedora Core Experience.
December 2, 2004
Finally I have a few nice things to say about Fedora. The most impressive thing about it is the fact that almost all it's packages are so spanking new. For example it uses Gnome 2.8 and it seems like yesterday...
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Mother Board Stew
December 1, 2004
It's been two weeks since my last post, I have been down with indigestion caused by Mother Board Stew. Immidiately After I completed my migration from Red Hat 9 to Fedora Core, one of the three hard disks on my...
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