I have to say this is one of the niftiest features I’ve found so far in Google’s Chrome:

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Took me about 20 minutes to figure out why this wasn’t working when installing yum:

After you follow the instructions at http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/BrokenVserver You get to the part where your trying to install rpm-python. This doesn’t work quite as you’d hoped.Â

Error:

So clear all the other RPM’s you installed, download these three from the repository (varies if your using 64 bit or i386)

rpm-4.4.2-48.el5.i386.rpm    rpm-python-4.4.2-48.el5.i386.rpm

rpm-libs-4.4.2-48.el5.i386.rpm Â

Make sure all these are present then run:

 This will install the libs and the RPM update at the same time so the error isn’t thrown.

I’m always trying to find a good method of monitoring system performance and logging it, but today I ran into a rather strange issue that I couldn’t find on google.

sar 0 was returning high idle percentages:

Made a fresh look for BlueScripts, hope it’s a bit easier on the eyes now.

BlueBug demo site:

http://bb.bluescripts.net/

Let me know what you think by leaving a rating!

I will be finishing up the admin functions and installation scripts for a new bug reporting system called BlueBug the next few days that will be open source and free, look forward to it!

Got my new Intuos drawing tablet (the bamboo one) and did a few sketches:

Whenever moving IPs around on servers I always find myself looking up the hex for a netmask.

Ever run into this

And need to know what the fffffff0 was for Here it is:

Here is a quick way to set a timezone:

<php putenv(‘TZ=America/New_York’); >

A list of timezones for php: http://www.theprojects.org/dev/zone.txt

To get the timezones into a file quickly:

wget http://www.theprojects.org/dev/zone.txt

cat zone.txt | awk ‘{ print $3}’ » timezones.txt

Remove the first few lines and you have an easily read file that you can make a selection box out of.