Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Crazy SUSE mod_rewrite problem

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

What a nightmare it was yesterday and for the better part of today. The new project just failed to run with mod_rewrite on the staging server and we couldn’t understand why.... Read More

Hardy Heron on Acer Aspire 2920

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

I’ve read quite a lot of more or less negative posts about Hardy Heron (HH) lately. Don’t upgrade yet, let them release a few upgrades first, hardware problems, no major new stuff anyway, the list goes on.... Read More

PostgreSQL on Ubuntu with phpPgAdmin

Thursday, January 24th, 2008

Setting up default installations of Apache, PHP and PostgreSQL is really easy, I’m using a Gutsy setup and writing this in a terminal:... Read More

Merb and Datamapper on Ubuntu with XAMPP

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Table of contents for Investigating Merb and Datamapper

  1. Merb and Datamapper on Ubuntu with XAMPP
  2. Registration form with Merb and Datamapper

The process of setting up Merb and Datamapper can easily derail, these are my experiences of setting them up on Ubuntu with XAMPP.... Read More

From dual boot to virtual machine with Ubuntu and Windows

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

I just shut down my dual boot by reformatting the Linux partition and running Ubuntu in a virtual machine instead. This is the walkthrough:... Read More

Language problems and solutions

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

So you have encoded all your language files with UTF-8 encoding and set all possible language options in the MySQL server to UTF-8. You have tried all possible combinations of utf8_decode(), utf8_encode() and iconv() and it still doesn’t work? That Ü stills shows up as some garbled crap or a question mark?... Read More

XAMPP on Suse

Monday, October 15th, 2007

What do you do if you have a lazy no good linux admin that won’t do as he is told and you want him to enable pdo, mod_rewrite and more? Well Linux nerds are a stubborn bunch so don’t bother threatening, pleading or bribing, if the admin in question doesn’t feel like doing as he is told he won’t. That the useless nerd is actually getting paid to do stuff like this is apparently completely irrelevant.... Read More