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Updated History Flow Subversion plugin
I’ve updated the Subversion plugin for History Flow, and put the code on GitHub. Continue reading
Chainloading from one grub to another
If you install two (or more) Linux distributions on one machine, then by default they both install grub to the master boot record (MBR). The second distribution’s grub menu therefore overwrites the first. For example, on my laptop, I have … Continue reading
Booting the Fedora installer with PXE
Launching the Fedora installer over the network, as well as having a local mirror of the Fedora repository, means you don’t need to burn a CD or DVD. It’s a convenient way of trying out a new distro. I’ve done … Continue reading
Building pssh using Cygwin
This is how I build pssh on Windows XP, using Cygwin and prc-tools.
Pre-queue content-filter connection overload
Ever since updating my gateway to Fedora 7, I’ve been getting messages like this in my daily Logwatch: 84 *Warning: Pre-queue content-filter connection overload Worrying that I might be losing mail, I looked at the logwatch script for postfix in /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/postfix, … Continue reading
Making the brightness keys work on a VAIO VGN-FE31H
After installing Windows XP on the VGN-FE31H, the screen brightness keys (Fn-F5 and Fn-F6) no longer work. To make them work again you need to install some of the utilities that ship with the laptop, which are also available in … Continue reading
Passing reference data to the success view
When using Spring’s SimpleFormController, the default behaviour is to pass reference data to the form view, but not to the success view. However it’s very easy to override this behaviour, and access the reference data from the success view as … Continue reading
Case insensitive constraint names in MySQL
By default, MySQL takes advantage of case-sensitive filenames on Linux, with lower_case_file_system = OFF and lower_case_table_names = 0 (i.e. the filesystem is case-sensitive, therefore database names are case sensitive; and table names aren’t forced to lower case). In this situation … Continue reading
Building MySQL from source
After the introduction of the MySQL Enterprise Server, and the subsequent source-only release of Community Server 5.0.33, there was concern that MySQL would no longer provide official binary builds of the free Community Server. Fortunately, these concerns have now been … Continue reading
Read only and read/write NFS mounts on Fedora
I share several directories from my Debian server to other machines on the network using NFS. On one of these machines, which runs Fedora Core, some of the directories are mounted read-only, whereas others are mounted read/write. After upgrading to … Continue reading
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