Category Archives: Unix/Linux

Unix and Linux Stuff

Back to the Future Part 1

Posted on August 16, 2006 by Alexandre Gauthier

My quad Xeon’s clock keeps drifting. It was now two days in the future. I ntp’ed it: nailhead # ntpdate time.apple.com 15 Aug 23:54:57 ntpdate[22961]: step time server 17.254.0.27 offset -131984.081641 sec 131984.081641 seconds in the future, huh? Guess the … Continue reading →

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Apache hangs on Digest Secret generation

Posted on August 11, 2006 by Alexandre Gauthier

I have a machine on my network that is very special. It’s a rather old Quad Xeon, an HP LH4 that I scavenged out of the proverbial dumpster of a buisness that didn’t want it anymore. In fact, they were … Continue reading →

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Gentoo is fun when it’s not.

Posted on February 14, 2006 by Alexandre Gauthier

I have never been so releived to see only simple things like this in my daily “emerge -uvaD world” output on my mail server. [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-Test-Simple-0.62 0 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-MIME-Base64-3.05 0 kB [ebuild N ] virtual/perl-digest-base-1.13 … Continue reading →

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Gentoo, dev-php and dev-lang switch, pear packages, oh my!

Posted on January 31, 2006 by Alexandre Gauthier

Well, I’m at home right now. Took another day off due to the fact that I am ill. Oh, and it’s not the cool “nose dribbling while playing Half-Life” but rather the most detestable “spending most of the day on … Continue reading →

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Subversion: On fixing “can’t recode string”…

Posted on November 16, 2005 by Alexandre Gauthier

Well, I recently set up a subversion system where I work, on Windows. Clients are using Tortoise SVN, and everything works beautifully. However this morning, I checked out the trunk on my Mac OS X powered Powerbook, and the lawnmower … Continue reading →

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Curse you global variables!

Posted on February 12, 2005 by Alexandre Gauthier

My server got compromised, backdoors were planted, awstats blows and my sink is clogged.

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