Why I Hate Solaris – Reason #1
Today I was trying to help someone with a regular expression to match an e-mail address. He was developing on a Solaris server and sent me the regular expression outlined in RFC 822 which outlines...
View ArticleMagic Mouse Disconnect Solved! (Sort of)
I recently got a Bluetooth Magic Mouse for my Mac Book Pro. It’s a great piece of hardware. I love the gesture feature, especially when browsing. It’s pretty sweet to be able to go back a page or...
View ArticleLDAP Authentication with CodeIgniter
Over the past couple years, I’ve written several little php-based application that rely on LDAP for authentication. More recently, I’ve been using CodeIgniter to write more apps. I thought it was...
View ArticlePHP 5.3.6 Packages for RHEL and CentOS 5
The Linux Fix yum repository has been updated with new rpm’s for the tlf-release package and for php version 5.3.6. The new tlf-release package includes changes to the layout of the yum repository,...
View ArticleNew PHP 5.3.6 Packages Released for RHEL and CentOS 6
A new TLF yum repository has been created for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6-based distributions (ie CentOS 6). As of right now, there is only a 64-bit repo. 32-bit packages are forthcoming. php 5.3.6...
View ArticleiSight Camera in Windows on VMware Fusion
Recently, I wanted to use the built-in iSight on my Mac under my Windows 7 virtual machine that I run under VMware Fusion. I figured that the VMware Tools would have installed drivers for it, but this...
View ArticleCentOS 6 Authentication to Active Directory – Part 2
A while back, I described a method for authenticating CentOS and RHEL servers to Active Directory using LDAP. While this approach is easy to set up and works right out of the gate, there are a few...
View ArticleAnnouncing the TechRockDo yum Repository
The TechRockDo yum repository has been created as a place to hold all rpm’s that I roll and use. I’m making them available to the public; I hope you find everything you find here useful. For now,...
View ArticleSASL – Encoded Packet Size Too Big
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time trying to get a useful combination of LDAP + SSL + Kerberos working on various Unix systems (Linux, Solaris, and AIX specifically). I’ve had excellent results...
View ArticleModding the Dunlop Crybaby Wah Pedal
I recently found an old Dunlop Crybaby Wah pedal that I’d had lying around for the past 20 years. The thing was in horrible shape and I had forgotten I even had it, let alone used it. Since I didn’t...
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