MongoDB has been around for a while now, with the current version of production-level code at 1.4.3. Full integration to PHP is available via PECL, across platforms, or precompiled binaries. And yes, it’s Open Source. From the site itself, MongoDB puts itself out there as a database that bridges the gap between key-value stores (which are fast and highly scalable) and traditional RDBMS syst ...
To enable symlinks in Samba for filesharing across platforms inWindows, modify /etc/smb/samba.conf and add in the [global] section: follow symlinks = yes unix extensions = no There has been some discussion about wide symlinks = yes However, due to the attack vector on Samba servers from Windows allowing file traversion, back in February 2010, you may want to force-set wide symlinks to no– i ...
Samba. Whopping goodness. Here are a few notes that help in the setup – from user creation, to directory settings etc This blog post contains a few lessons learnt and thus by extension a migration plan from a Windows file server to a Samba-based one running on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I look at users, system vs smbpasswd user creation and linking (set that up in Webmin before you start, as well as ...
What release / version are you running? cat /etc/lsb-release or cat /etc/issue But you knew that already — to upgrade the version of the Ubuntu installation you have is quite simple – just storing it so that I have it somewhere 🙂 ...
Just a quick note (as I keep forgetting, and a cut-and-paste solution is a quicker time to market) – but you knew that already. Installing Webmin is quite simple (download directly, or from the mirrors). Currently, 1.510-2 is the latest version – check on www.webmin.com for further details. As an aside, the book Webmin Kompakt – by Holger Reibold – is available for downloa ...
So the booking system came back online on Friday – late afternoon; after it crashed in the morning, thus shifting online booking advantage drastically… Sigh. And now it’s “Sold Out” in all the good ones. Weren’t they going to release 160 000 tickets? And then it came down to 90 000 tickets…? Perhaps they reported it incorrectly on the news? ...
That’s it – I’m out – got to wait for the 14 days now before the account is deleted from Facebook. As promised, I was asked whether I’m really sure that I want to delete my account – have to enter your password and the 2 CAPTCHAs before getting the confirmation: Doesn’t quite end there: next, I get an email, Subject: “Account scheduled for deletion& ...
Google.co.za is doing it, Gmail is doing it — resolving to 196.23.168.147 – hosted by Internet Solutions, and reverse-IP’ing to za196-23-168-147.cache.googlevideo.com (which suggests the implemenation of local youtube caching (youtube.co.za is in the offing for some time now)) – full rundown here. Youtube.co.za — registered by MarkMonitor on behalf of Google – ...
So more tickets went on sale today. Or did they? When I visited the http://lmsfwctickets.fifa.com/LMS link yesterday, I got an IIS7 welcome screen (Welcome to IIS7 — is that the new Icelandic Soccer Federation? 🙂 which was then fixed about 30 minutes later. That was after the IIS7 ASPX BSOD about their web.config file. Bad omen. This after previous hitech hitches… So tickets went onli ...
Assuming you don’t have any link shares in place (Digg, OpenID, MySpace etc), the process should be quite simple: Go direct: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account (you have to be logged in to use the link) and then don’t access the account for 21 days. Some say 14 days, but what’s the hurry? Some recommend no interaction with Facebook at all (pages, g ...