http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/ PHP, FreeBSD, MySQL, python and whatever I else that I just happen to be busy with en-us 2009-12-22T23:07:34+02:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/powertrip/~3/y-IQKoviDvg/000623.html I currently have 43 draft entries in my blog software (movable type) that I've not yet published as I have not gotten round to posting some of the posts....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/powertrip/~4/y-IQKoviDvg" height="1" width="1"/> Blogging jacques 2009-12-22T23:07:34+02:00 http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/archives/000623.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/powertrip/~3/ymTPqRYEiu8/000622.html Google have launched their "Public DNS" service - a similar service to the OpenDNS public dns resolvers. It is going to be interesting to see how much competition occurs. It is usually faster to use the OpenDNS public dns resolvers...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/powertrip/~4/ymTPqRYEiu8" height="1" width="1"/> Google jacques 2009-12-03T19:36:28+02:00 http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/archives/000622.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/powertrip/~3/Q8q4mxbgkJ0/000621.html Interesting question for MySQL DBA's: do you prefer using the mysql cli interface and know the SQL statements to execute in order to do your admin work like creating databases or do you prefer using the mysqladmin interface? Personally I...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/powertrip/~4/Q8q4mxbgkJ0" height="1" width="1"/> MySQL jacques 2009-12-03T19:18:21+02:00 http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/archives/000621.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/powertrip/~3/TyPffHRNAdA/000619.html Finally managed to get round to upgrading movable type - need to hack my wpcp function to add files that haven't been added with svn add for some odd reason. I must admit that I like the cleaner appearance of...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/powertrip/~4/TyPffHRNAdA" height="1" width="1"/> Movable Type jacques 2009-11-09T00:12:13+02:00 http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/archives/000619.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/powertrip/~3/AER1keUgQY8/000618.html Seeing that I run into this jot gotcha every couple of months while writing shell scripts, I thought I would add a reminder for myself here (and so that google can pick this up for me next time). On FreeBSD,...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/powertrip/~4/AER1keUgQY8" height="1" width="1"/> FreeBSD jacques 2009-08-11T21:24:17+02:00 http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/archives/000618.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/powertrip/~3/kAWWBnGRap0/000617.html I really hate educating people how to do the following, but a bit of an explanation around this. Mozilla Firefox 3.5 now does not play nice with wildcard SSL certificates where you do things like service.servername.example.com when you only...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/powertrip/~4/kAWWBnGRap0" height="1" width="1"/> Mozilla jacques 2009-07-04T16:30:31+02:00 http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/archives/000617.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/powertrip/~3/dTNuUjxstrA/000616.html Currently playing around with the private beta of the Smart Platform from Joyent - took less than 2 minutes to deploy their hello world app (apart from me getting a bit annoyed with git). Need to still work on getting...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/powertrip/~4/dTNuUjxstrA" height="1" width="1"/> Joyent jacques 2009-07-03T20:48:32+02:00 http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/archives/000616.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/powertrip/~3/kw5LaxNA2jA/000615.html Sort of a note to self for the next time I bump into a very annoying issue with network cards that use the VIA Technologies Rhine I/II/III controller chips on network cards like the quite popular dlink (shows up under...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/powertrip/~4/kw5LaxNA2jA" height="1" width="1"/> FreeBSD jacques 2009-04-18T23:38:37+02:00 http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/archives/000615.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/powertrip/~3/KETEkmj0t10/000614.html One of my pet peeves is currently when Twitter Search is down - there goes being able to zone into conversations on any given topic from bsdisms, following cloud computing, etc. Tired of seeing: Status: 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type:...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/powertrip/~4/KETEkmj0t10" height="1" width="1"/> Blogging jacques 2009-03-04T22:20:52+02:00 http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/archives/000614.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/powertrip/~3/cF8L9SspeCk/000613.html If you've not heard about it yet, there is now a website advocating not using Smarty. The time for using smarty has gone - but makes one wonder if Flickr, Facebook, etc. are still using it....<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/powertrip/~4/cF8L9SspeCk" height="1" width="1"/> Smarty Template Engine jacques 2009-02-22T19:38:42+02:00 http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/archives/000613.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/powertrip/~3/1IrYgjKVf3o/000612.html Just a quick blog post to say Happy New Year! 2008 seems to have flow by quite quickly and at the start of 2009 I've made a resolution to not make any resolutions as I never tend to be able...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/powertrip/~4/1IrYgjKVf3o" height="1" width="1"/> Personal jacques 2009-01-01T23:44:33+02:00 http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/archives/000612.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/powertrip/~3/iqOuxZv-vc4/000610.html One of the joys of installing ports on FreeBSD is the odd occasion that the dependencies list is missing a dependency. is not installed you get nice perl errors in the case of the following # cfgmaker public@127.0.0.1 Can't locate...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/powertrip/~4/iqOuxZv-vc4" height="1" width="1"/> FreeBSD jacques 2008-10-26T22:14:32+02:00 http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/archives/000610.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/powertrip/~3/JN_9DrKAGCk/000609.html I've made some patches to update Ruby On Rails version 2.1.0 to 2.1.1 where you make use of the unpacked gems and a subversion repository (running 'rake rails:freeze:gems' has a bad habit of leaving your working copy in a mess...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/powertrip/~4/JN_9DrKAGCk" height="1" width="1"/> Ruby on Rails jacques 2008-09-08T01:04:13+02:00 http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/archives/000609.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/powertrip/~3/FlgSErRtL4Y/000608.html One gotcha when using exim to do authenticated SMTP one wonders why you keep seeing the following: Return-path: *snipped* Sender: "email@add.re.ss"@server.host.name *snipped* One needs to modify your acl for acl_check_rcpt for authenticated SMTP connections to contain the sender_retain bit like...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/powertrip/~4/FlgSErRtL4Y" height="1" width="1"/> Systems Administration jacques 2008-09-03T14:35:06+02:00 http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/archives/000608.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/powertrip/~3/o6Rq84BWaIc/000607.html One of my work colleagues, the ubergeek Ben Rockwood has started a podcast called SA Pro a podcast for Systems Administrators. In the first episode (episode zero) Ben chats together with with Joe Moore of Siemens and Mark Imbriaco of...<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/powertrip/~4/o6Rq84BWaIc" height="1" width="1"/> Systems Administration jacques 2008-08-29T17:41:51+02:00 http://www.powertrip.co.za/blog/archives/000607.html