I recently found some issues with the openjdk Ubuntu/Debian default Java implementation. Specifically I had issues with their web start support (javaws). I found that the Sun implementation of Java did not have such a deficiency and the Sun implementation is available through the regular Ubuntu/Debian package sources. I installed the Sun implementation and wanted [...]
When upgrading my Ubuntu system my /etc/fstab got overwritten by the upgrade process. It seems that the new /etc/fstab file did not keep my old preferences for file systems. I didn’t notice this for some time but what I did notice was that my system was sluggish. After some time I recalled that I had [...]
I often find myself in need of inserting data manually into a MySQL database using some kind of database editor. In a database editor you find yourself manually inserting values into cells of a table and in most of them you are not allowed to enter an SQL expression (the MySQL Query Browser is a [...]
In an effort to secure my blog I once again did battle with the mighty Word press. It seems that you can run a perfectly healthy blog with no write permissions by the HTTP server (usually www-data) to your service directory. What do I suggest? Change owner ship to root on your blog area. When [...]
I’m now using git heavily for configuration management and wanted to sign my objects. There were no complete guides out there that I found so here is the list of instructions that I finally arrived at: If you have a key that you are already using to sign things (email, code, whatever) then you can [...]
In the course of running various grep(1) combination to find various defects in source files I ran into inherent grep(1) difficulties. It seems that the regular expression syntax in grep(1) is very limited and so it’s better to use perl to solve these issues as it’s regular expression support is fantastic. A small script can [...]