by Mike | Jul 31, 2013 | Network Administration, Tech Support
The following describes a failure of a drive I had on Ubuntu Linux with a Linux software RAID 5 volume with LVM, how I diagnosed it, and how I went about fixing it. The server had 4 2TB drives in software RAID 5. When checking kernel messages, here is an example of...
by Mike | Jul 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
If you share a server with multiple users, you may find yourself committing as root. In that case, it’s helpful if you can keep svn from saving credentials. All you have to do is edit: /root/.subversion/config Set the following: store-passwords = no...
by Mike | Jun 21, 2013 | User Interface Design
Recently I was trying to separate a foreground image from its background so I could put the image on a new background of a completely different color. There is a GIMP tutorial, but it failed to help me remove the ugly white or colored edges from the foreground. Here...
by Mike | Jun 12, 2013 | Programming, Software Development
Here’s a nice way to turn on JSONP for CakePHP. JSONP, or JSON with padding, is necessary when you want to include JSON from a site different than the one you’re on. A good explanation for what JSONP is can be found here:...
by Mike | Mar 2, 2013 | Network Administration, Programming
We frequently use Subversion for version control, and use /trunk to commit all code in active development and merge code to a stable branch that represents what is currently on a production server. Sometimes commits need to be done right away, so you merge them right...
