In the middle of the panel jungle, on the rooftop of a house a man who called himself Megron was talking to his apprentices when the wind began to blow. Everyone looked him up in awe that when he was talking about the spiritual power of the air, the wind …
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The Encounter
Mendari stood on the top of a worn-out, old panel house. He looked down on the masses on the street. “Your life depends on the fact that I have not chosen to end it yet. As soon as my brother is gone, no one will be left to save you …
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Destructive Creation
They stood on the top of a hill, looking sadly at the town and the forest slowly devoured by it. They really tried everything. They asked the workers, even the higher management to stop this, or it won’t end well. They told that the forest will get fed up …
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Protecting light
“Can you see that red mist?”
“Yes I can. It looks like it’s closing in.” Gardan answered.
“It does. When it gets here, close your eyes and seal yourself.”
The mist slowly engulfed them. The girl closed her eyes and channeled all her energies to seal herself from the …
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Why you should always test your software with production data
I’m writing a software for my company in PHP, using the Symfony 2 framework. I’ve finished all the work, created some sample data, it loaded perfectly. Now I put the whole thing into production and tried to upload the production data into it. Guess what… it didn’t …
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Inverse of sort
I’m using *NIX systems for about 14 years now, but it can still show me new things. Today I had to generate a bunch of random names. I’ve create a small perl script which generates permutations of some usual Hungarian first and last names, occasionally prefixing it with …
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Proxy only non-existing files with mod_proxy and mod_rewrite
Today I got an interesting task. I had to upload some pdf documents to a site. The domain is ours, but we don’t have access to the application server that is hosting the page yet. Until we get it in our hands, I did a trick.
I enabled mod_rewrite …
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Oracle Database “incompatible” with Oracle Linux?
Today I gave a shot to install Oracle Linux. I thought I could easily install an Oracle DBA on it. Well, I was naive.
As only the 5.2 version is supported by XenServer 5.5, I downloaded that version of Oracle Linux. Installing it was surprisingly fast and easy …
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Citrix XenServer 5.5 vs. Debian 5.0 upgrade to 6.0
Few weeks ago I’ve upgraded two of our Debian based application servers from 5.0 to 6.0. Everything went fine, as the upgraded packages worked well with the 4.2 JBoss instances. For the new kernel we needed a reboot, but as the network had to be rebuilt …
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Gentoo hardened desktop with GNOME 3 – Round two
After several hours of package.keywords/package.use editing and package compiling, I managed to install GNOME 3 on my notebook. Well, I mean, the GNOME 3 packages. Unfortunately the fglrx driver didn’t seem to recognise my ATI Mobility M56P card, and the open source driver didn’t want …
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