I’m a bit fed up that I had to install MySQL on my server to have Wordpress working, so I’ve Googled a bit to find a solution for my pain. I found this. I don’t know when this post was written, but I think it’s a …
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Fast world, fast updates
We live in a fast world, that’s for sure. When I first heard about Ubuntu Linux and their goals, I was happy: they gave a Debian to everyone, but in different clothes. It had fresh software in it, and even they gave support of a kind. It was easy …
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PHP 5.4 released
After a long time of waiting, PHP announced 5.4 release on 1 March (also, today they announced that they finally migrate to Git, which is sweet from my point of view, but it doesn’t really matter).
About a year ago we became very agressive towards a developer who …
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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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Zabbix performance tip