In order to make updating wordpress nice and easy, you should install an ftp server. What we do not account for in this setup, is having more than one wordpress site, or other service, accessible via ftp. For security, you want to listen only on…
I decided to start being more active with this blog. I’ve always wanted a personal indexer for all the things I learn in Linux or software development. Might as well make this blog that index. So, you want to gzip all the log files in a…
I searched everywhere for a simple solution to routing through two ISPs. There are more complex examples that balance the routing using round robin or whatever, but I wanted a simple port based solution. So, after spending literally hours reviewing other people’s stuff, which never…
I’ve spent hours trying to figure out why tgtd is not working properly. I change things in targetd.conf, and nothing actually changes for the initiator (clients). I can even change the password, and the old one still works but the new one does not. …
There have been two updates since they said they’d fix it. Neither update fixed it. If you run into this, please contact razer and bug them about fixing it. In the end, I posted on their facebook, and ended up getting a very quick response…
So, I decided to get an apache tomcat 7 rpm going. I ended up finding someone who had created one, and then made it work a little bit better. I had one guy that used to be a fedora RPM contributor help out a bit…
I have the collectors edition, which includes AOE 1/2 and the expansions. I was having troubles with this game, as it kept asking for the CD, when the DVD was in the drive. This was because I applied a patch downloaded off the original site,…
After fiddling with a few different styles of coding a database upgrade implementation for Android, I’ve settled on a fairly simple method. Basically, I take the old version, and increment a counter until I get to the current version. Through each iteration, I use switch…
Perl Twit is a Linux/Unix command line utility for sending twitter messages. I’ve been using this for probably well over a year now, and just never managed to release it. Today I decided to push it up to github.com, and let the world have at…
I’ve seen a lot of examples of how to send email from an android application. All of them result in applications coming up in a chooser list that are not appropriate for sending email. In this post, I’ll described the various solutions I found, and…