If you want to extract the files from an rpm, it’s really easy. I needed to use this recently when I was going to install a printer driver in UNIX. The manufacturer had a linux rpm available for download, but I didn’t need the whole thing, just the PPD file. So, I ran this command [...]
I haven’t posted for awhile because I have been super busy. I don’t think I have had a chance to post anything since it was announced that the company I work for was being bought out in the beginning of May. That sale has now gone through earlier this week, but the workload has not [...]
I read this post by Matt Cutts awhile back (I recommend subscribing to his blog, some useful stuff there) and now that my blog is getting to the point where people are commenting on my posts and I am commenting back, it made sense to implement this on my blog. Going through his instructions I [...]
Well, it’s one of the great and annoying things about open source software – frequent code changes, updates, and security releases. Version 2.5 of WordPress came out less then a month ago. I decided, I’d wait for the first subversion release (2.5.1), which, of course, would inevitably fix problems with all the new features introduced. [...]
So I needed more swap space, but didn’t have any more space on the current disk. What to do? Add another drive and set it up as swap space. The only caveat is that I am running the 32 bit version of Solaris 10, which has a limitation on maximum swap size of 2 GB. [...]