8 month after RHEL 6 was released the free clone CentOS 6 is released. It includes all new features and is binary compatible to Red Hats Enterprise Linux 6.
Based on Linux kernel 2.6.32 it includes for example PostgreSQL 8.4 and MySQL 5.1.
Like RedHat, the …
Posted on Sat 09 July 2011 in About
With my Sinatra project skeleton I try to maintain my quick and dirty Ruby hacks for simple web apps I need for my daily work and private projects. Maybe I …
Posted on Sat 09 July 2011 in Linux • Tagged with Grub, Linux
Grub is the default bootloader for the most popular Linux distributions. The installation procedure is not so easy if you're not familiar with the concept behind it.
After a restore or copy of a system to a new harddisk the bootloader needs to be reinstalled to this new disk. If …
Posted on Mon 04 July 2011 in Mac • Tagged with Git, GitHub, Mac, Tool
GitHub became one of the most popular places for free and commercial software development the last few months. The market around the great DVCS Git initiated by Linux Torvalds became more and more popular. It is fast and fixes many problems for distributed code development by design.
A colleague of …
As you my have recognized I integrated a Flattr button to my posts since a few days.
Would be nice if the concept of Flattr is interessting for you and maybe you join it. And maybe …
On a desktop machine I updated from OpenSuSE 11.1 to 11.4 there appeared some strange boot problems after installation.
The system freezes each time directly after grub and the only message I got in textmode was "Bug: SoftLookup". First I thought maybe there are hardware problems but the …
Posted on Mon 20 June 2011 in Mac • Tagged with dd, image, iso
On Unix like systems it's easy to create an ISO image from an CD or DVD with dd.
You only need to know the device name of your CD or DVD device and a terminal.
If you don't know the device name open a terminal and type:
drutil status
This …
Posted on Sun 19 June 2011 in Mac • Tagged with mac os x, sizeup, window management
With SizeUp I found exactly what I need for managing my application windows on Mac OS X.
One of my daily use cases where SizeUp helps me a lot is when I have open many iTerm windows with ssh shells. On my desktop there are often a lot of shells …
Posted on Wed 15 June 2011 in PostgreSQL • Tagged with pljava, PostgreSQL
Install SUN/Oracle JDK and PostgreSQL via zypper or Yast.
Download pljava here http://pgfoundry.org/frs/?group_id=1000038&release_id=1024
Create a directory for example /usr/src/pljava and extract pljava there.
create /etc/ld.so.conf.d/postgres.conf with this two lines in it if your using …
Posted on Tue 14 June 2011 in CentOS • Tagged with CentOS, Jenkins
The Jenkins project provides a rpm installation repository for CentOS which installs Jenkins with some changed locations for configuration files.
If you want to change the default port for Jenkins you need to change the file /etc/sysconfig/jenkins
JENKINS_PORT="8080"
Change it to the port you want to use …