Richard Stallman has published an opinion on the matter of Debian including the Mono project in order to support some C# projects. He warns that it “leads the community in a risky direction” citing Microsoft’s possible enforcement of patents as seen at http://swpat.org and http://progfree.org. His point is the dependence on the C# for applications “means that writing them ...
Quick step – just jotting it down as I keep forgetting: route-method exe route-delay 2 at the end of the ovpn file will do the trick (running as Administrator…) But you knew that already! 🙂 ...
http://www.synch.co.za is back (after a sabbatical of some time) so everything’s all happy again on the site, as well as on http://synch.co.za — in the meantime, only the URL synch.cc had been active. It’s been a while! 🙂 ...
What would a search-engine say if I didn’t add the basic link to the source of tweets (that comes back here if all goes well): http://twitter.com/svenwelzel But you figured that out already 🙂 ...
Just really a matter of generating random rubbish on the net. Let’s see what the fuss/hype is all about 🙂 Twitter is now using the OAuth method for new registration of applications (either desktop client or browser); some good implementations and code examples are over at http://toys.lerdorf.com/archives/50-Using-pecloauth-to-post-to-Twitter.html and http://www.jaisenmathai.com/blog/2009/03 ...
For the self-signed certificate: sudo a2enmod ssl wget http://librarian.launchpad.net/7477840/apache2-ssl.tar.gz tar -zxvf apache2-ssl.tar.gz sudo cp apache2-ssl-certificate /usr/sbin/ sudo cp ssleay.cnf /usr/share/apache2/ sudo mkdir /etc/apache2/ssl cd /etc/apache2/ssl sudo apache2-ssl-certificate -days 365 sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/default /etc/apache2/sites-available/ssl sudo ln -s ...
cp just saps resources when transferring large volumes of data between directories. Especially on old machine memory usage spikes when the process is started and the machine becomes almost unresponsive. That’s on large volumes of data (and old hardware). Enter rsync stage left. OK, none of this is new (you know all this already) — it’s really just to have in one spot: No mess no ...
Some really nifty tips on huuuuuge LDF files I encountered (56G a pop) and came down to 212MB as a result of this process: In SQL Server 2000 Query Analyzer run the following command (doesn’t matter what db you are in): backup log [database name] with truncate_only (don’t include the square brackets) Open Enterprise Manager and navigate to your database: –Right click on the data ...