Archive for December, 2008

Sunday, December 21st, 2008

Wicked Cool Ruby Scripts

Having fun and solving problems can be mutually exclusive. Even for professional programmers and system administrators who chose their career because they enjoy problem solving, there can be times when finding a solution is an exercise in the mundane. Luckily, there are tools designed to ease the pain and frustration faced by programmers and [...]

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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008

Cups / FreeBSD / Windows Domain

So as you may know, I’m working on secret PHP project using the Zend Framework. It’s coming along well and I have been taking some notes on the server which is on the local network. I was about to download my notes and print them when I decided that printing directly from the FreeBSD server [...]

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Monday, December 8th, 2008

PHP/Recode fail

I use PHP on FreeBSD servers, compiled from the ports system. It works very well, except that sometimes… well… sometimes… segfaults happen. Yes random, bizarre, “how did this working system suddenly become non-working wtf” errors happen.
Here’s an example of what happened to me today. This is a snip from my lighttpd error log
(mod_fastcgi.c.2722) child signaled: [...]

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