Dazed & Confused

So my harddrive for my home-server crashed. Seems like it short-circuited or something. Any tips for restoring would be appreciated. I had devised some sort og backup mechanism, that obviously didn’t work. Lost about a years worth of posts. Have signed up to Dreamhost now which offers 200GB diskspace on the cheapest plans. Finnally we [...]

So we started running Maven snapshots at a fairly regular basis to enable automatic running of Watir tests. This fills up the disk really fast so I had to do some research to fine a linux command that would delete all but the newest snapshot from multiple projects: find /var/www/maven2-snapshots -type d -path ‘*SNAPSHOT’ | [...]

I need this tutorial next time.

I’m not a big fan of Oracle. I’ve had my fair share of problems with their products, but I’ve mentioned before that I think they’re on the right track. As one example you now got deb packages for Oracle Express Edition. Check out a tutorial here. Update: Another blog that also includes some details about [...]

This is how I installed my D-Link DWL-G520+ wlan card on Fedora Core 5 (FC5). This card has Texas Instruments chipset and needs the acx111 driver. Follow the instructions found at the acx100.sourceforge.net homepage. Add “alias wlan0 acx” at the botom of the file /etc/modprobe.conf Check that “chkconfig –list NetworkManager” says “ n” under runlevel [...]

I knew this, but got reminded when I stumbled over this page at VMWare. They have released their VMWare player for free, and there are a bunch of Linux images available here. Downloading my trusty old Debian as well as Ubuntu and Fedora right now. Thought I’d just check out how they were coming along. [...]

This page explains how to do a binary upgrade from FreeBSD 5.3 to 5.4 using freebsd-update. Looks easy and i will give it a try..

Here are some of my most frequently used links regarding FreeBSD. They will help you out with most of the basic questions (and some advanced too). BSD News – A site providing news on the BSD projects. bsdguides.org – Guides for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Mac OS X defcon1.org – Guides to FreeBSD

Having problems with displaying your site and getting error 403 in your web-browser? does the log-file for apache errors contain lines like tis? “client denied by server configuration: /path/to/files” Then you probably have denied access to the directory in the httpd.conf file. Allow access by adding: <directory /path/to/files> allow from all </directory> If your are [...]

I’ve started this FreeBSD thread to be able to share some of the tips and trix that I’ll come across in the future.