My company has been in search of a 42u cabinet for our upgraded environment. After a couple of unplanned power outages that cycled our servers over the past few years, we decided to do due diligence and look around. We’re going from a 1/4 rack to a full, locking cabinet to support our […]

Huzzah! It is possible. I have CFMX7 running under CentOS-5 (RHEL-5) with SELinux enforcing. I imagine this will also work to correct CFMX8.
The Problems

The mod_jrun20.so and mod_jrun22.so provided by Adobe is broken in many ways. You can see my original post on recompiling the connector to support mod_deflate but it’s just […]

I recently bought a used 125cc shifter kart and I’m getting ready to go racing. I needed to pick up a karting suit as Nomex race suits aren’t permitted and my OMP suit is just a little too small. This time I wanted to be sure that I got one that fit well. […]

My earlier post yesterday asked if anyone had it working and the real answer is “no”. Some people have it working by saying “compress everything except these file extensions” using a configuration like this:
<Location />
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:exe|t?gz|zip|bz2|sit|rar)$ no-gzip dont-vary
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:pdf|wav|swf|doc|xls|rtf|ppt|mp3|avi|mov)$ […]

That’s one exciting title. I found myself needing to migrate /var/log to a bigger drive as part of setting up a centralized syslog server. Normally, that’s not so hard but my requirements included:

Software RAID - mirroring drives for fault tolerance and no need for hardware RAID
Logical Volume Manager - LVM gives me additional […]

On the heels of my post yesterday, I want to share a strategy I’ve recently started using to manage third party dependencies with Subversion. In my code, I rely on many packages like jQuery, Dojo and FCKEditor. It’s easy to fall behind as they release new versions, especially when you have to overlay […]

I searched like crazy and couldn’t find this information very easily anywhere so here’s the documentation. Many subversion clients, like TortoiseSVN, look for bugtraq properties in your repository. When it sees these properties, in the case of TortoiseSVN, it adds a new box to the UI when you’re committing code changes that allows […]

Based on my geocoded zip code database research, I wound up purchasing the ZipList Can-USA GeoCode database. Here’s what I did to get their 848,000-record CSV file into a PostgreSQL database table. First, create a table to hold the data:
CREATE TABLE tblLookupZipCode (
vchCity varchar(33) DEFAULT ” NOT NULL
,booDST boolean DEFAULT false NOT […]

If you want to search by zip code, provide distance-from calculations or verify the city and state when someone enters a zip code, you’ll need a zip code database.
For MotorsportReg.com, I originally used a free but outdated USA zip code database with latitude and longitude. I know it’s outdated because my application sends me […]

Need passport photos? Need a lot of passport photos? The going rate is between $5-10USD for a couple of 2″x2″ photos. For my recent trip, I needed around 20 of these pictures for visa and permit applications and I’m a cheapskate. Read on to see how you can make your passport […]