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How to install Mono on RedHat/Plesk 8.6.x
Mono is a savior if you’re migrating Windows sites to Linux/Apache stack. I had to do this just recently and had to setup Mono on RHEL box with Plesk 8.6. It was relatively straighforward process and here is quick log … Continue reading
How to move MySQL storage to RamFS or TmpFS partition
Whether moving all MySQL storage to a tmpfs helps with speeding it up or not is questionable but I needed to do for some testing purposes, so this is a short overview of how I did that hopefully will be … Continue reading
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Tagged mysql, performance, ramfs, tmpfs
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Apache 2 and HTTP Authentication with PAM
There are 2 ways(at least that I know of) to get Apache 2 to use PAM for http auth: Old mod_auth_pam, which I believe is not developed anymore and also posses some security risks Newer mod_authnz_external and pwauth This little … Continue reading
How to play a .ogv file
Lately I’ve been putting together a lot of videos and all of them in OGV format(for obvious reasons ). Sharing those with my ‘Windows’ friends often raises the same question – “How do I play those ogv files?” Here is … Continue reading
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Installing Mercurial 1.5, 1.6 or 1.7 on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04
Lycid Lynx’ repository by default set to install Mercurial 1.4.x, which is great, but as of today that’s already 3 major releases behind To get yourself on the latest and greatest version of Mercurial there are 2 options: build from … Continue reading
XDebug doesn’t show local variables in Komodo, NetBeans or Eclipse PDT
Lovely surprise that came sometime after upgrading Lucid Lynx(and thus to PHP 5.3.2) – Xdebug doesn’t show local variables. Fortunately that’s a known issue that is fixed in Xdebug 2.1.0RC, but since it’s not released, it is not yet in … Continue reading
Advanced Web Ranking on Ubuntu: Fixing “SQLite Could Not Be Found” Issue
“SQLite Could Not Be Found Issue” that you see when running AWR on 64bit Linux(in my case Ubuntu 10.04 ) is caused by the fact that AWR relies on 32bit JRE(you can read about this on AWR’s forum). Problem could … Continue reading
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TypePad to WordPress MU: Moving content with Technorati links, images, video and all that good stuff.
Getting content out of TypePad ain’t fun at fall. Getting content with images, technorati tags, videos is even more painful. With default TypePad ‘export’ feature you’ll just get partial content(some limited number of posts AFAIR), no technorati tags, no images. … Continue reading
Moving TypePad blogs to WordPress MU: TypeLists
TypePad suck, no two ways about it. Why, in your right mind, would you want to use something so limited in functionality on the platform that you have no control over, when there are tons of open source solutions that … Continue reading
MySQL5 TINYINT, SMALLINT, MEDUIMINT, INT, BIGINT boundaries
From MySQL Documentation, boundaries of the numerical types are as follows: Type Min Value Max Value Bytes TINYINT -128 127 1 TINYINT UNSIGNED 0 255 1 SMALLINT -32,768 32,767 2 SMALLINT UNSIGNED 0 65,535 2 MEDIUMINT -8,388,608 8,388,607 3 MEDIUMINT … Continue reading