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The NETGEAR ReadyNAS is a pretty sweet product if you’ve got a small team like I do. It’s inexpensive and easy to set up.
Log into the ReadyNAS and turn on Rsync for your backup share. Optionally, set a username and password. Your ReadyNAS will start up it’s rsync daemon.
Replace the password and [...]
I’ve typically used bridged networking with VirtualBox, but you can run into some issues. If you’re somewhere without internet access, or if you’re changing IPs often, you might be better off using NAT settings. There’s a few other advantages – for instance you won’t need to check the IP of your machine in order to [...]
I’ve hopped back on the VIM train recently, and I’m loving it. Command-T, NERDTree, buffer explorer and fixing my fonts in MacVIM ( set guifont=Inconsolata:h16 ) have all been essential to the move. That and the INSANELY helpful folks in #vim on freenode.
I just read the VIM book cover to cover. Extremely useful. [...]
I’ve run into a ton of issues working with crons, mostly with the $PATH variable screwing things up. Scripts work when run manually on the command line, but fail when run in cron. Very annoying.
I’ve asked a bunch of Linux sys admins how to fix this – and the answer is always “put the [...]
Say you’ve got an Erlang app with the standard file system layout, with your source code in src/ and your compiled code in ebin/. I’ve found this makes using the interactive shell interpreter a little harder.
Lets use the Emakefile that Erlang supports to let us recompile and reload our code on the fly.
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From the Munin FAQ
Q: Why are the graphs for the MySQL plugin blank?
This is due to a bug in a Perl library Munin uses which causes $PATH to be lost. This again causes the plugin to not find the mysqladmin program which it needs to retrive the numbers the needed in [...]
There’s an overwhelming amount of git tools, and if you’re coming from SVN you might expect that the tools w/ the same names work the same way. You’d be wrong.
Because of Git’s distributed nature, you can (and frequently do) have commits in your repo that you might not have pushed up. You might also [...]
I’m using PHP53 package from the IUS Community repository. I’ve been trying to get phpunit to install, but it gives an error that it needs DOM install. It took me a little bit to figure this out, but I finally got it working. What you need is the php53-xml package. You can install it [...]
First, make sure you have the compile flag (+debug_info) set when compiling your source, then fire up the debugger:
1> i:im().
My Erlang Makefile:
EBIN_DIR := ebin SRC_DIR := src EXAMPLES_DIR := examples INCLUDE_DIR := include ERLC := erlc ERLC_FLAGS := +debug_info +native -W -I $(INCLUDE_DIR) -o $(EBIN_DIR) all: @mkdir -p $(EBIN_DIR) $(ERLC) $(ERLC_FLAGS) $(SRC_DIR)/*.erl [...]
I like running VirtualBox headless on my Mac. It doesn’t show up in the Dock, and feels like it’s a remote server.
First, figure out which VMs you have on your machine.
haddad-work:~ jhaddad$ VBoxManage list vms Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.6 (C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation All rights reserved. “WebServer” {2c61a180-e098-4926-b09a-27e431791c88} [...]
