Back in the days at the UCSD Center for fMRI, I had the opportunity to get my hands dirty with a few types of *nix systems that most people have never heard of, much less use. My boss was also pretty keen on very specific configurations that he insisted his employees put on their computers …
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I like to wait quite a while before upgrading Mac OS X to the newest release because, for me, it often requires quite a bit of work. I had hopes that Snow Leopard would be different because Apple finally installed current versions of the whole LAMP stack, but I wanted to wait regardless… just in …
I was looking for a simple solution to backup my newly constructed server to an off-site location in case something were to happen. I don’t mean I lost a file… more like catastrophic hardware failure, fire, water damage, physical damage, and even theft!. Local backups really are best, and I don’t plan on abandoning them …
I recently performed a major upgrade on my file server this week. It was a lot harder than it should have been, but that’s only because my Linux Foo can only go this far. Two to three re-installs later on the new hardware it was getting old, so I told the Fedora installer to just …
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I just ran across a nasty worm in one of my WordPress blogs (not the most current install). Not only did it overwrite a ton of files, inserting spam links and malware into the pages, but it was sneaky enough to go into my wp-admin/.svn/prop-base/ directory and re-write those files as well. It’s fairly ingenious …
I had the unfortunate event of having to send my MacBook Pro into Apple for some repairs. The machine came back working fine, however there was something odd going on with TimeMachine – it wanted to do a full backup of my disk. Odd, considering I keep it plugged-in all the time when I’m at …
Here’s a fun little thing you can do for your next site goodie: display your users’ “fortunes” from the command-line interface, CLI, application Fortune. On Fedora, install: % sudo yum install fortune-mod from PHP (fortune.php) <pre> <? passthru(‘fortune’); ?> </pre> I pre-formatted the text because it comes out looking as it does in the CLI. …
Q: How do you install the mb_string PHP extension in Fedora? A: % sudo yum install php-mbstring It’s really painless. Answer a few y/n questions (probably want to answer “yes” to all of them), restart apache, and you’re done! Also see my recent post on adding gd support to PHP in Fedora.
If you’re looking for some help on learning mod_rewrite, this post isn’t for you. sorry. Instead, I’m going to show you a neat little trick that will make sure you always have one the www in front of your domain name. Why is it important? Potentially for your stats package, definitely for search engine ranking …
For some reason I thought GD was installed by default onto the DFL production servers… and that PHP was configured accordingly. I was wrong. But lo and behold I found a very simple upgrade path. % yum install gd-devel % yum install php-gd restart apache: % /sbin/service httpd restart You’re golden.