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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...

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Magic 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...

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LDAP 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...

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PHP 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,...

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New 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...

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iSight 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...

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CentOS 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...

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Announcing 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,...

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SASL – 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...

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Modding 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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