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Fixing Apache on CentOS/RHEL 5 for Drupal

Submitted by Damien on Tue, 08/11/2009 - 7:31am

While not strictly a requirement, in the interests of not having crazy URLs on your site it's recommended to set up your web server to support files. This will let you have URLs like "/products/cool/stuff" instead of "?q=products/cool/stuff" - obviously much nicer, and better for both usability and search engine optimization.

mod_rails / Phusion Passenger 2 goes gold

Submitted by Damien on Fri, 06/27/2008 - 11:45pm

The greatest system on the market for running Ruby on Rails apps, mod_rails aka Phusion Passenger, has hit v2, their first non-beta / release-candidate release. Great stuff. Go forth and sudo gem install passenger.

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Why I don't use Cygwin for SFTP

Submitted by Damien on Fri, 09/07/2007 - 5:55am

In the UNIXy (UNIX, BSD, Linux, OSX) world secure file transfers have been the norm for years, thanks in part to the standardization of SSH as the security protocol due to both its simplicity and power. Windows, on the other hand, has never featured security as a very important feature, evidenced by the ellaborate routes someone must take to handle SSL in IIS.

Vista sucks, let me count the ways

Submitted by Damien on Wed, 08/29/2007 - 1:46pm

Microsoft's Windows Vista has become the most hated release of Windows yet - missing features (hardware accelerated GUI, database-based filing system, smart search engine, etc), irritating features (the security requesters), confusing number of editions ( seven available in the USA, two more in Europe), confusing graphics system (DirectX 10.0, incompatible with the upcoming DX10.1, slower than DX9), and more.

...So, to set the record straight, Linux kernel hacker Robert Love responded with a wonderful reply that cut Mr Russinovich's reply to shreds, simply saying that Vista is poorly designed and that Linux doesn't suffer from the same stupid bugs.

Subversion's one problem

Submitted by Damien on Wed, 01/24/2007 - 5:31pm

I've used the document revision management system Subversion for a few years now and find it to be an excellent tool that has never given me any problems. Until this week, that is. I was helping to set it up on a web server that has Fedora Core 4 as its OS - we wanted to have a central code repository for the various projects we worked on and it was a logical step to place it there.

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