Shane Sveller
Somewhere between happy and total f**king wreck
MySQL ruby gem with MacPorts MySQL
Jun 13th
sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386" gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-include=/opt/local/include/mysql5 --with-mysql-lib=/opt/local/lib/mysql5 --with-mysql-config=/opt/local/lib/mysql5/bin/mysql_config
This worked for me with mysql installed via macports by the command:
sudo port install mysql5 +server
Source: Code Intensity
Live backups using LVM and dump
May 27th
OSX apps I can’t live without
May 1st
- Adium Multi-protocol IM client; supports AIM, Yahoo, MSN, MySpace, Google Talk, and loads more.
- Growl pop-up notifications for anything and everything
- Safari – included with OSX
- Mail and Address Book- included with OSX
- Quicksilver keyboard-based launcher; hard to explain what it does, but useful as all hell
- Firefox browser, though I don’t use it nearly as much on OSX because of Safari
- Schoolhouse homework manager or iProcrastinate
- Colloquy IRC chat client
- Google Mail notifier
- iBackup
- NetNewsWire RSS reader
- Skim PDF reader (Preview is good, Skim is better)
- The Unarchiver for zips, rars, aces, etc.
- Transmission bittorrent client
- VLC media player for files Quicktime won’t handle
Quick Tip: Ubuntu default runlevel
Apr 24th
If you, like me, use sysv-rc-conf to change the services that run a particular runlevel, i.e. so that runlevel 2 is actually only networked and not GUI as tradition holds, you can set the default runlevel to boot in Ubuntu by editing:
/etc/inittab: id:3:initdefault
The number in the middle is the runlevel to start by default.
Personal internet acceleration, part 1
Apr 14th
My SFF server machine has been configured to speed up my digital life. More >
Using binary NVidia 8800GT drivers on Ubuntu Gutsy
Apr 14th
In order for me to use the official binary drivers, version 169.12, from NVidia with my GeForce 8800GT on Ubuntu Gutsy, I had to do some research. Alberto Milone‘s envy tool makes the whole thing almost idiot-proof.
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Ubuntu Gutsy AMD64, LVM, and Xen from repositories
Apr 10th
My desktop just grew by two 500GB Western Digital Caviar drives. Having installed those, I loaded Gutsy-AMD64 on one using LVM. The partition schema is as follows:
Drive: 500GB #1 Volume Group: server1 Volumes: swap_1 - 6GB - swap root_1 - 30GB - ext3 - mounted as / home_1 - 20GB - ext3 - mounted as /home/ Free space: ~398GB
500GB number two will probably wind up being a RAID mirror via my motherboard. This LVM layout allows me to dynamically allocate space for the many potential Xen DomUs I create.
To install Xen on Gutsy-AMD64 desktop version:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-xen-desktop-amd64
God is watching over my Rails
Apr 7th
On my home server I’m toying with some Rails clustering and such, using nginx and thin, and now God to watch over things.
With this setup, I can add apps and port-ranges to monitor any time I like, and I can split off a particularly specific configuration group if an app has unusual trends or requirements, such as using loads of memory.
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