Fun with MS errors
I decided to install SQL Server 2008 Express Edition, because I want SQL Server Management Studio Express and figure it can’t hurt to have the whole SQL Serv...
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LinkedIn SSL cert expired this morning…
Trying to login to LinkedIn this morning with Firefox 3, this morning I saw….
Wordpress code/pre tags
More things for posterity, as I had to search several times to find what I wanted…
Grails on Ubuntu Hardy
Just for the posterity of the Internet, and because I didn’t find an immediately useful answer when searching with Google…
Ruby problems
Interesting post at Matasano with details about some possibly exploitable bugs in Ruby. I’m glad I’m not currently supporting any Ruby on Rails apps, I’m sur...
FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0
There are pending releases of both FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0 coming up – current schedules put 6.3 just before Xmas and 7.0 in mid-January. I’d expect these to sli...
Ubuntu 7.10
Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) has been released - there are news articles everywhere, even in the mainstream press. I’ve been running the beta for a couple of w...
VMware Server on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty)
Just to increase the Google weight of the page, there are great instructions on how to get current VMware Server running on current Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) on t...
New laptop
I bought a new laptop. I wanted something quite small, but still very powerful. Something with “inner bigness”, if you will. I wanted it small so I could eas...
Sun Java on RedHat and time zones
For future reference, when updating the time zone on a RedHat machine running Sun’s Java it is not sufficient to update /etc/localtime, you also have to upda...