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Comment on Samba File Share Over SSH Tunnel by Simon

Simon — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:31:32 +0000

If I knew of an easier solution to the problem than this then I would have detailed it above. Stop being so lazy!

Comment on Samba File Share Over SSH Tunnel by al

al — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 13:19:36 +0000

is there a easier way?

Comment on Installing APC and Memcached for PHP Sessions on Redhat by Simon

Simon — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:04:21 +0000

Have you tried running a yum update first?

Comment on Installing APC and Memcached for PHP Sessions on Redhat by Walter

Walter — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:47:13 +0000

I try to install yum memcached and I get no matches found on RHEL 5.3.

Comment on Using phing for good – Unfuddle Add Repository and SVN Import Tasks by David Winterbottom

David Winterbottom — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:37:17 +0000

Nice work with the Unfuddle extensions.

I’ve just added a new Phing task to my collection and, like yourself, have created a lightweight repo on github to share these things. Thought you might be interested.
New task: http://codeinthehole.com/archives/14-Phing-task-to-update-Twitter-status.html
Github: http://github.com/codeinthehole/phing-tasks/tree/master

Comment on Installing APC and Memcached for PHP Sessions on Ubuntu and Debian by Memcached and APC: Two Simple Techniques to Speed up your PHP Web Application | Simon Holywell

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:53:44 +0000

[...] have written two articles detailing the steps involved in installing both the binaries on RedHat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu or Debian. Currently the live servers I use are either running CentOS or RedHat and [...]

Comment on A Good Windows Development Environment and Ubuntu Virtualbox by Danny

Danny — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:45:25 +0000

Dude, you seriously rock. I was struggling over this for hours! It’s 04h45 here and i’m grinning with delight that this is working now. Maybe i’m just a huge geek but this makes me super happy. Thank you so much!!!!

Comment on Secondary DNS for Free by Simon

Simon — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:17:08 +0000

Hi Jorge,

Yep that sounds right. If you would like me to have a quick look then please let me know your domain name.

Regards,
Simon

Comment on Secondary DNS for Free by Jorge Garcia

Jorge Garcia — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:57:34 +0000

Hello, googling found this post.

I already make the steps:
1.- registred on zoneedit.com and add my domain
2.- convert to slave zone and put the current ip from ns1.everydns.net
3.- add the zoneedit NS on everydns
4.- add the zoneedit NS on my registrar (godaddy)

this is ok right?

Thanks.

Comment on Haiku OS Progress by diogen

diogen — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:14:35 +0000

The Atheros Wi-Fi driver is in progress by the way and the Bluetooth stack has also had some nice progress according the developer’s blog. Haiku is stable enough (for an Alpha status) and works really fast on the Aspire One netbook (without any optimizations yet!).

General problem is still the drivers, which are going to be covered in time. A number of developers have also begun to port some applications from the *nix world and create their own little & cute software for Haiku. Slow but steady; that is the way that will eventually bring a very fast, clean and beautiful OS for all those devices from laptops & netbooks to the special embedded devices (PPC and ARM ports also planned).

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yamaha service manual — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:39:29 +0000

Interesting article, i have bookmarked your site for future referrence

Comment on Installing APC and Memcached for PHP Sessions on Redhat by Oliver Nassar

Oliver Nassar — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:34:15 +0000

Thanks for the quick walk through.

Comment on Installing APC and Memcached for PHP Sessions on Redhat by Bret Clement

Bret Clement — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:50:16 +0000

Hi Simon, good overview of installing APC, Memcached on Redhat. Thnx.

Comment on CrunchBang Linux on the Eee Pc by Simon

Simon — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:16:05 +0000

I did not recommend EasyPeasy in this particular instance, no. I found both CrunchBang and eeeBuntu to suit the Eee Pc better for my purposes. If there was a stripped down version available in the future then I could be persuaded to try it, but I like the lightweight interface in CrunchBang so I am not so sure I would move back any time soon.

Comment on CrunchBang Linux on the Eee Pc by Jon Ramvi

Jon Ramvi — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:57:27 +0000

Sooo, you recommend Easy Peasy?
Especially if there’s a minimal install for geeks?

Comment on A Good Windows Development Environment and Ubuntu Virtualbox by karatedog

karatedog — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:55:20 +0000

Good article, I was just about to post about a very similar environment of mine
An addition though: you can install a guest 64-bit Ubuntu (and other operating systems) onto a 32-bit host Windows, if you have a 64-bit CPU. This is the info I just stumbled into while reading the help file (I was bored).
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/12/22/virtualbox-2-1-supports-64-bit-guest-operating-systems-on-32-bit/

Comment on XAMPP VirtualHosts by kokfee

kokfee — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:03:54 +0000

Nice article. It really help me alot. Thanks.

Comment on A Good Windows Development Environment and Ubuntu Virtualbox by Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:31:56 +0000

Well, I’ve now had this same problem with another web app… so I’m thinking that I may have to just forgo my desire to keep the webroot on the hostOS and move them over to the guestOS, onto the linux file system and share them with windows via Samba. No big loss, I’ll just make sure to do regular backups to assuage my fear of keeping my work files in a virtual file system.

I do a mix of both writing my own apps and using open source web apps these days. I often go the open source route when it comes to working in a CMS or e-commerce functionality into my client’s sites, no sense in reinventing the wheel. So it’s important that I can do both in my development environment.

I’m going to keep experimenting with this when I have more time on my hands. If I find a solution to the permissions issue I’ll let you know. Thanks again for all your help!

Comment on A Good Windows Development Environment and Ubuntu Virtualbox by Simon

Simon — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:27:50 +0000

I would say that you are right on the permissions front. I normally do not worry about setting permissions until it nears going onto the live server as it is yet another variable to debug during development.

Perhaps take a look inside the Magento installer to see what it is up to and where it is failing. I am write most of the code I produce myself and I have never attempted to install something like Magento into the virtualbox.

If Magento has the ability run on a Windows host machine though then there must be some way to avoid the permissions hang ups. Perhaps you can change something in the installer to trick it into thinking it is running on a Windows machine permissions wise not sure.

Sorry I couldn’t be of any more help.

Comment on A Good Windows Development Environment and Ubuntu Virtualbox by Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:41:01 +0000

Whoops, looks like I spoke too soon. Maybe you have some idea what might be causing this…

I am trying to install Magento (a popular e-commerce platform that I often use for clients) and it’s failing to install whenever I use a webroot located on the hostOS (windows) mounted as a virtualbox shared folder. My share is mounting just fine via fstab with the following line: wwwroot /home/ltmayonnaise/wwwroot vboxsf uid=ltmayonnaise,gid=www-data,umask=002 0 0

I added the umask to your fstab example as I prefer my permissions set a little closer to what a production server would use, and they certainly wouldn’t use the default FAT/NTFS mount permissions of 777/666.

I have verified that indeed anything created in the webroot is owned by the correct owner/group and that folders are created with 775 and files 664. In the end it didn’t matter as Magento won’t install no matter how tightly or loosely the permissions are set.

However, when I try to install Magento with the webroot located on the guestOS (linux file system) and shared with the hostOS via Samba, the install works! The problem, I think, is exactly what you indicated. Once the permissions are set on a FAT/NTFS mount, they are set in stone and cannot be modified by install scripts or even root. This appears to cause permissions issues with complex web apps like Magento. This is my guess… any ideas?