John Alberts on October 27th, 2009

This should apply to RHEL5 as well, but I haven’t verified yet. The easiest solution I’ve found is to simply install Ruby and it’s dependencies and then install RubyGems from source. I’ve written a small script which installs Ruby and it’s dependencies.  It then grabs the RubyGems source tarball and installs Gems from source.  As [...]

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John Alberts on September 10th, 2009

This is simple, but I always forget how to do it when I need it and it’s hard to find on google for some reason. echo “hi” | mail -s “My Subject” to@someone.com — -f from@someone.com

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John Alberts on September 7th, 2009

I just stumbled across a Mozilla Labs project called Personas.  It’s  light-weight theming for Firefox that can be changed without restarting the browser.  After you install Personas, you get a new menu entry Tools->Personas for Firefox, where you can quickly change the persona you are using.  From what I can tell, Personas seem to change [...]

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John Alberts on August 12th, 2009

I really had a hard time getting pure-ftpd 1.0.22 to compile properly witih mysql support on a RHEL5 x86_64 server.  It turns out that the mysql libraries path in the configure script is incorrect.  I’m not sure if this is just a problem with my particular configuration or with the way pure-ftpd tries to figure [...]

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John Alberts on March 11th, 2009

Balance Through Extremism » Redhat perl. What a tragedy.. Wow, I wonder if any of our server have been bitten by this nasty Perl bug.  It’s hard to believe that RedHat has taken so long to provide a fix for this problem.

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John Alberts on March 11th, 2009

Grooveshark — Listen to Free Music. Just found this website tonight for playing music online for free.  It’s a community based service where you can have friends to share music with.  It’s kind of like Last.fm and Pandora, but with a much nicer interface.  It seems to load very quickly and the music seems like [...]

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John Alberts on January 27th, 2009

I saw a posting today on one of the Gentoo listservs about the recent lack of newsletters and website updates.  Unfortunately, the lack of updates isn’t unusual, but I did pickup an interesting bit of information. It looks like there is a new index page coming soon to the Gentoo website.  It looks like it’s [...]

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John Alberts on January 19th, 2009

As I was browsing the Gentoo forums today, I came across a very interesting post. A user had 2 partitions on different hard drives that he wanted to combine the space on.  Ok, well the interesting part was one persons reply about a new fuse filesystem called mhddfs.  He pointed out an article on debian.net [...]

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John Alberts on January 12th, 2009

So, I found myself tweaking my Conky rc file today.  I’ve been using mocp for playing music becuase it’s a really lightweight, versatile and can run detached from the console.  I really wanted to see my currently playing music info on my desktop in Conky, but Conky’s documentation shows no mention of any support for [...]

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John Alberts on January 12th, 2009

Wow! I have to have one of these chairs! Perhaps the most amazing gaming throne you will ever see. read more | digg story

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