If you want to get the numeric month from strftime your only only is %m which is zero padded. So January is “01”. But what if you don’t want zero padding? Turns out that’s non-trivial, unless you’re on a system that supports strftime flags. Then you can use “%-m” for no padding (“1”) and “%_m” …
Bug #992469 “apparmor chromium-browser abstraction missing in Ub…” : Bugs : “apparmor” package : Ubuntu Bug #990740 “upgrading from lucid to precise fails” : Bugs : “python-defaults” package : Ubuntu Bug #992449 “Ubuntu 12.04 downloads i386 sources on amd64 system…” : Bugs : “apt” package : Ubuntu
I’ve done this enough times to know it by heart but I remember when I tried to find documentation on this step I ran into countless inaccurate and outdated examples. So here’s what I do to get the Windows GPL PV drivers installed under Xen. Download the drivers from meadowcourt.org. As of 1/18/2012 the latest …
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I’ve been researching how good a fit Redis might be for a project or 2. One project needs a memory based key-value store generally without persistence, which would seem to suggest memcached. However, there may be times where persistence across reboots may be desirable and Redis’ atomic operations and data types may also be useful. …
Here is what I’m looking at: ISPConfig – been around a long time, seems quite mature Froxlor – an active fork of SysCP which has a decent reputation I-MSCP – a fork of ispCP which was a fork of VHCS which I know several people who supported
I run Ubuntu on my desktop and have since Ubuntu’s first release (4.10) and the current release, 11.10, is the first that I am going to skip over entirely. The reason is that the choice of desktop environments is poor. I upgraded my HTPC to 11.10 and tried every desktop environment available: Gnome Shell, Unity, …
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I’ve bought a number of solid state drives and I’ve had to return most of them due to problems. I’ve taken from that experience that a lot of the manufacturers don’t quite know what they are doing yet. There are plenty of places on the internet you can read about the bugs in many of …
Ony my desktop I’ve removed pulseaudio because I found it to be more trouble than it was worth. So I use ALSA, which works pretty well. However, sometimes my audio dies and produces chirps and squeaks only. I found the easiest way to fix this is the following command: sudo alsa force-reload
Couldn’t find this anywhere but what I found worked was to put this in config/application.rb: require ‘rack/cache’ config.middleware.delete Rack::Cache This did fix the issue that sent me to this, as many people are likely to run into. The issue was that since Rack::Cache uses the default Rails FileStore that lots and lots of small files …
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I’ve been wanting to explore the OS-level virtualization space again. For a long time I was running linux-verser on a number of servers. I switched to Xen because I really like the aesthetic of being able to run each virtual machine with it’s own kernel. But I wonder if this is not too heavy a …