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My Gentoo Experience on Toshiba A100 (cont.)

Giving another try to the proprietary ATI graphics driver. Loading the fglrx module gives error “No such device” Continue reading

Posted 13 February 2010 † belerophon § Hobbies § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Restore Grub in Gentoo

How to restore your grub installation if you somehow messed with the MBR or grub itself, using a Gentoo minimal install CD. Continue reading

Posted 13 February 2010 † belerophon § Dev § Hobbies § sysadmin ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

WP Super Cache causing problems

I normally am authenticated in my blog, whenever I’m using my own browser, so, I took a while to notice that anyone trying to access my blog was getting “500 Internal Server Error”.

Apparently it was the plugin “WP Super Cache” for Wordpress which was causing the problem (I, has authenticated user, was not because the plugin was not caching anything for me, I think…). Disabling it and clearing the cache… Continue reading

Posted 07 February 2010 † belerophon § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , ,

My Gentoo Experience on Toshiba A100

My experience with Gentoo operating system, from the installation to the daily use. Problems I had, what I don’t like and what I’m excited about this new operating system rolling on my 4-year-old Toshiba A100. Continue reading

Posted 04 February 2010 † belerophon § Dev § Hobbies ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

CSS3 @font-face currently sucks!

How to use CSS3 @font-face specification to render the fonts you desire on your website. The problems that still exist and alternatives. Continue reading

Posted 30 January 2010 † belerophon § Dev § Hobbies § Web ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,

Apache SSL Vhosts and Default Vhosts Behavior

How to create an SSL Virtual Host with Apache2. How to couple this with normal Virtual Hosts already in production. Apache2 behavior when Server Name does not match and Virtual Host selection with SSL. Continue reading

Posted 21 January 2010 † belerophon § Academic § Web § sysadmin ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Rails: Migrate between databases

How to migrate a rails app, Redmine, and from Sqlite3 to MySQL effortlessly. Continue reading

Posted 18 January 2010 † belerophon § Dev § sysadmin ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

After Sapo Codebits

Summarizing Sapo Codebits 2009 edition… Continue reading

Posted 12 December 2009 † belerophon § Dev ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

Creating and Managing a Remote GIT Repository

Using Gitosis to manage a remote repo, with groups of users for each repo, and emailing the revision comments to everyone. Continue reading

Posted 10 November 2009 † belerophon § Dev § sysadmin ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , , ,

From CSV to SQL statements…easy.

Writing a perl script to transform data from CSV data to SQL statements, and taking a look at mysql procedures and loops to change table structure and data. Continue reading

Posted 26 October 2009 † belerophon § Dev ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,

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