Because I use Linux on my servers + on my daily desktop (work and private) now, I don’t have an OS to play around with anymore and f*ck up.

So I’ve installed FreeBSD (only in Virtualbox for now). And it worked! Last time I tried to install FreeBSd...

Because I’m had (yes, past tense) some issues with Flash player 9 on Ubuntu Hardy Herron, I was looking for some simple way to install Flash 10 on my installation. So I browsed the Ubuntu forums a bit and fout some howto’s. But they all involved some...

Since I’ve installed Ubuntu Hardy Herron I have this problem that the Glipper applet keeps crashing whenever I’ve started my Gnome desktop. When I add glipper to the panel again, it doesn’t crash anymore (for that session). I couldn’t find a solution...

The default vpnc in Ubuntu comes without openssl support. Bugger… But with these few lines of code this is solved:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get build-dep vpnc
sudo apt-get install...

There were some vulnerabilities in Ruby which are supposedly fixed in ruby 1.8.7. Because of that and because it’s always nice to have the latest, I installed ruby from Ubuntu Intrepid on Hardy Herron.

And while I was doing that I also decided to...

I’m starting with Python/GtkBuilder and I wanted a nice IDE for Python. Because I really like using netbeans for coding ruby, I gave it a try for python. But the support for python is still alpha. :(

For it to work you have to download the latest...

I went to a customer for our three-weekly sprint review, I opened my mail there and it was full with hundreds of failed cronjobs. Ah, shit! Another night at the datacenter? But it wasn’t that bad :)

The server had ran an update of php that night and...

I had to make a couple of diff’s lately and I always forget what switch to use :P

So here is it:

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On v2 of my website I wrote a post on configuring a webserver for testing/developing purposes. In that post I explained how to adjust the umask of Apache. I did that by changing the Apache startup script. But, of course, when apache is updated/upgraded...

I’ve installed rubygems manually (no package manager) in my home directory. But since then “gem –version” reported that it could not it’s version. So now I’ve removed the previous installed version, downloaded the tar and reinstalled. I’ve used this...