The recent release of Gnome-Do 0.8.0 has brought with it a number of interface changes and upgrades. I won’t go into all the new “shiny” stuff in this post, but simply outline how to satisfy the new requirements. Gnome-Do 0.8.x now requires some type of compositing support for its interface (unless you stick with “Classic”).… Read More »
As some of you have read, I recently switched this production web server over to Lighttpd, and so far I am very much impressed. I have been tinkering with Lighttpd for some time, and I really feel it is a fine replacement for Apache. It supports all the same basic modules that I need (mod_rewrite,… Read More »
Well it appears that the server migration is complete, and so far I am very happy with the results. First of all, I don’t think there was much downtime, if any at all. The only oddity that I encountered was regarding DNS propogation, and there is only so much you can do about that. Here… Read More »
At work we run a number of Red Hat Enterprise machines and CentOS servers. After finding a large number of machines that were grossly outdated I decided to add a weekly cron job to notify us of available updates. I used something along the lines of: #!/bin/bash yum check-update | mail -s “Weekly Errata Report… Read More »
I know many of you may think I’ve given up and stopped blogging completely. That is not entirely the case. I’ve been overloaded at work, doing over 160 hrs over two weeks in late January and continuing to work later hours than the normal 9-5. Things appear to be slowing down a bit so I’m… Read More »
I just wanted to wish everyone Happy Holidays. Be safe. Have fun and have a great New Year.
I’ve just updated the site to WP 2.7 release. If you notice any weirdness let me know.
Yesterday I ran into a file format I had not seen before. Microsoft .chm (Compiled HTML). Turns out there are plenty of solutions for Linux. I have to admit I really wondered why the publications I found were in .chm and not in a more standard .pdf format. Really makes me appreciate common standards. I’ll… Read More »
As I mentioned in yesterdays post, I have begun studying perl. I’m actually enjoying it quite a bit, and picking things up fairly quickly I think. I’m sure my familiarity with bash scripting helps quite a bit. This morning I hacked together an irssi script for origami users that will let you display your current… Read More »
Over the weekend I started studying Perl and quickly realized I was going to be better off if I reviewed regular expressions before I got too far into things. I went back and found my copy of “Mastering Regular Expressions” and dove right in. Now, maybe its just me, but I find that I really… Read More »