I’ve long ago turned my ‘nerd blog’ into a personal blog, and once more back into a ‘nerd blog’, noting many of the trials and tribulations of being a System Administrator / Programmer. This is hardly amusing, and nobody cares but voyeuristic nerds.
So, have some blog-quality content: A link to M...
One of the largest problems you might have with Enterprise Grade Code is that it often isn’t.
Case in point: Program A and Program Module B does not know which hand is washing the other, or, indeed, which side it should be on… is it the top, or is it the bottom?
Module B was working, er, somew...
Today had to be a day with one of the more annoying sequences of everyday life that Administrators deal with.
Yes, I know. It’s been a long time coming. I’ve been thinking about it, but every time I considered building it, I opted to find real work to do, instead.
However, ImagePup has Automatic Thumbnails!. I’ve added code to resize the image and create a thumbnail for your specific image, with the dim...
Debian Etch (the current stable distribution) is bundled with MySQL 5.0.32. While it works, there is a problem with replcating that data to other MySQL servers. This is fine for most users, however, I’ve built in a highly fault-tolerant enterprise.
As you’ll find, MySQL prior to 5.0.38 has a nast...
I’ve seen this happen a few times, and it’s incredibly simple as to why: Somebody screwed up.
No. Really.
What’s happening about 90% of the time, is that there is a colission between installations. PHP usually uses a dynamic mysql library. Apache auth modules such as 2.2’s internal auth_dbd, and...