A couple days ago I was reading a post from Knightwise and he mentioned using twidge on his server to do some fun stuff with his twitter account. Well! That sounded to me like just the thing for me to get some use from my neglected twitter account. Unfortunately, twidge is really best used on […]
Bitten by the rsync bug? I was. Apparently in the new RHEL 5.7, and I am sure the RH clones like CentOS, Scientific Linux and ClearOS(?) as well, there is a bug in rsync when you use it with ssh transport like so: rsync -avz -e ssh remotehost:/data /data The fix is to make sure […]
A friend asked me for a quick primer on how to set up a windows accessible share under RHEL 5, so I thought I would include it here for the benefit of anyone interested. sudo yum -y install samba sudo vim /etc/samba/smb.conf replace the file with something like so: [global] workgroup = SOMEWORKGROUPNAME server string […]
Last night on the TechShow I was asked about providing some info on a decent default server build. Here are some quick notes to get people going. Adjust as necessary. Just for ease, here, lets assume you are installing CentOS 5, a nice robust enterprise class Linux for your server needs. CentOS 5 / RHEL […]
In continuation, somewhat, of my last post and a brief review on the last TechShow, I wanted to jot down some notes about my newest encounter with ESXi and Subsonic. I wanted to try out Subsonic, so I really needed to put together a new machine to play with it a bit. As a RL […]
Another one for posterity here. I was asked to find out how to upgrade on PHP RHEL 5 / CentOS 5 to v 5.3.x and to test the procedure. It turns out to work pretty well and is not as difficult as you might think as long as you have the right repositories enabled: wget […]
CentOS 5.5 Released! http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.5 I am personally updating now but the mirrors are still a bit on the sluggish side.
Yes, another post about Ubuntu 9.10. I know I tried it out before, but I put it on this new (old) laptop and am giving it a little better run this time. I still believe 9.10 (Karmic) to be a fine running distribution and this time I got to test out my method of installing […]
I know, I know. I wrote earlier about how the T23 was suffering some sort of display death again and would undoubtedly end up on freelinuxbox.org. While that is definitely true, I was looking at it today and thought I’d start it up again and let it do it’s updates. I did and the display […]
The other day I was talking about how to install Rocks Cluster. Well, today I’ll give you indication on how to test it out a bit. Now this is surely not the *proper* way to test the cluster out, which would be to run some fancy cluster-aware graphics rendering application or something of the sort, […]