Entries written in July 2008
Written July 30, 2008 in Note-To-Self
Just solved a Xen problem for a new client : his Xen Dom0 host had two interfaces. Both were configured with an IP address on the same subnet. While this worked on the regular Linux kernel, as soon as he booted into the Xen kernel, the machine became unreachable on …
LazzyMonk has created a Magento extentions which integrates a WordPress instalallation. At present, his extension only works (cut and paste) with WordPress 2.5.1.
A client hired me to fix an implementation on WordPress 2.6.. here’s how I did it:
(If you don’t want to do it manually, simply download the modified …
Recently, I needed to create a diff patch to send some modifications I’d made to a WordPress plugin maintainer. I used the following command to create my “diff” file, which he can then use to automatically merge my changes into his sourcecode:
[code language="bash"]diff -crB original modified > mypatch.diff[/code]
Explanation:
-c : context
-r …
One of the things I find most rewarding about blogging is the “feedback loop” it creates between writer and reader.
There’s a sense of excitement and anticipation that I get from crafting a new blog post, publishing it to the world, and sitting back and waiting for feedback.
Since this “feedback loop” is one of the primary reasons this blog exists, I’ve tried to make it easy and rewarding to leave comments.
On those infrequent occasions when you need to reboot Linux, you may find that the process takes longer than you’d like. Jack Wallen shares a number of tricks you can use to reduce boot times…
10 ways to make Linux boot faster | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com.
Get more from the mobile web with these tweaks
17 ways Greasemonkey can revolutionise Firefox News – PC Advisor.
Macs are immune from security threats, right? Apple is fast becoming the company most in need of getting its security mojo going.
Funky Penguin’s mail is hosted via Google’s Free “Google Apps” service. This means that all mail sent to our domain is routed via a Gmail interface (2GB per email account, up to 100 accounts!), before being downloaded into Outlook, Mail.app, etc.
I’ve recently started filtering my email rather stringently, as my …
A client recently had an error where his Postfix (with Amavis) installation stopped sending mail with the following error:
MIME::Parser: can’t open tmpfile
After much prodding and researching, we discovered that the problem was the permissions of /tmp – they were set to 755 (root:root), rather than 777 (root:root). Once we reset …
It seems this is a common problem with Request Tracker on Gentoo, for some reason. On a fresh installation, although you can see the filename of an attachment on the ticket display, you’re unable to click the attachment to download it. Here’s the solution.
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