Acrobat Reader 7 and FC6
I broke down and wanted to install Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 on my FC6 box to replace xpdf. After installing it from the tar.gz version the acroread startup scr...
Recent Posts
Dynamic DNS with EC2 and ZoneEdit
There seems to be a lot of questions on how to set up dyndns with EC2. It is fairly easy to do but I haven’t seen anyone put everything together to do it yet...
A lesson in on the limits of administrating your way out of problems: Shared MySQL
I just finished reading a post to the Media Temple blog about their MySQL problems . I think it is an excellent example of what happens when you only have on...
Using Oracle Instant Client and SQLPlus
Some time ago Oracle introduced their Instant Client as an alternative to needing a full install of the Oracle client to run your own apps or SQLPlus. I’ve b...
Debian EC2 AMI
After working on my FC6 AMI I started thinking about how small of an AMI I could create. The goal would be to have a 10 meg or less image that is very specia...
Creating your own FC6 instance for EC2
I’ve been playing around with the EC2 service at Amazon and figured I would document a little about how you create your own FC6 AMI. The Amazon documentation...
Optaros Open Source Catalogue
For anyone interested in using open source software in the enterprise Optaros just published their Open Source Catalogue 2007. The paper doesn’t cover every ...
Akismet spam graphs with PHP RRD
After reading a post on hacking Akismet to add graphs I decided I liked the idea but I didn’t want to store the data in a database. It seemed like it would b...
How to build FlowPlayer from source
I have mentioned the free open source flash video player FlowPlayer before in my post about adding cuepoints and create flash videos. It is a great free flas...
Mingruby 0.1.8 released
I have brought the Ming Ruby library up to date with Ming 0.3, added patches submitted by users over the past year and included a ton of user supplied exampl...