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Today I was having a look on PHP.net and noticed a PHP contest so I decided to submit one of my functions.

I chose the rglob() function. Read the rest of this entry »

It should be easy right? Just “yum install subversion”.

Nope. You get this error message:

Error: Missing Dependency: perl(URI) >= 1.17 is needed by package

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I’ve recently had some fun installing Trac project management software on CentOS5.

After finally getting it successfully installed and setup I decided to have a play around with a TCL script for eggdrop.

This eggdrop script will allow you to return ticket information from Trac to an IRC channel.
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[root@coffee ~]# yum install mod_python

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror

error: no dbpath has been set

error: cannot open Packages database in /%{_dbpath}

Traceback (most recent call last):

File “/usr/bin/yum”, line 29, in ?

yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)

File “/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py”, line 309, in user_main

errcode = main(args)

File “/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py”, line 157, in main

base.getOptionsConfig(args)

File “/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py”, line 187, in getOptionsConfig

self.conf

File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 664, in <lambda>

conf = property(fget=lambda self: self._getConfig(),

File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 239, in _getConfig

self._conf = config.readMainConfig(startupconf)

File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py”, line 804, in readMainConfig

yumvars['releasever'] = _getsysver(startupconf.installroot, startupconf.distroverpkg)

File “/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/yum/config.py”, line 877, in _getsysver

idx = ts.dbMatch(‘provides’, distroverpkg)

TypeError: rpmdb open failed

[root@coffee ~]# rm /dev/urandom

rm: remove regular file `/dev/urandom’? y

[root@coffee ~]# mknod -m 644 /dev/urandom c 1 9

Nothing else seems to work, but this does indeed seem to solve the problem.

Perhaps I’ll finally get Trac installed…

f you received this message when you try and stop the VE…

[root@server ~]# vzctl stop 104
Container already locked

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So your favorite site is now displaying the following message:

This domain name has been seized by ICE – Homeland Security Investigations

In this example we will use the recently seized domain “torrent-finder.com”.

What “ICE” have done is changed the IP address that the domain resolved to, to one of their own.

The easiest way to see what the IP address currently is, is by using the “ping” command:

[hm2k@server~]$ ping torrent-finder.com
PING torrent-finder.com (74.81.170.110) 56(84) bytes of data.

— torrent-finder.com ping statistics —
1 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 0ms

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When a business I know had trouble with their broadband I was fortunately able to get them back online by using the redundant mobile broadband on the router.

The only issue then was that they couldn’t send email on port 25 through the Three mobile network.

The solution is to change the outgoing SMTP from port 25 to port 587.

Because I keep forgetting myself, here’s how you do it on cPanel:

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We recently had an issue with a US based company who asked us for the following:

Copy of your business license via PDF/JPG scanned (preferred) and emailed or faxed

We went on to explain that we don’t have a business license, they clearly didn’t understand and they proclaimed: Read the rest of this entry »

I was trying to work out how to estimate how much fuel was costing me per mile at the moment based upon my car’s average mpg.

It’s not so easy because you have to convert from miles per gallon to pence per liter, not only that but it’s an imperial gallon.

Surely there’s a calculator out there that could do this for me to save me having to remember how to work it out.

There wasn’t, but I had an idea.

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If you’ve not heard of TinySong, you’re missing out!

TinySong allows you to share music using a short URL using Grooveshark.

I have created a very simple script that connects to the TinySong API.

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