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Compiling MySQL Tutorial 1 – The Baseline
Pre-requisites This tutorial is aimed at Linux installations that has the standard development tools already installed. The INSTALL file in the source archives provides good details of the software required (e.
Eclipse CVS Tutorial 2
Following on from my earlier Eclipse CVS Tutorial 1 . Decorators The following options define what is presented in the Navigator View at the project, directory and file levels. Window | Preferences General | Appearance | Label Decorations Team | CVS Team | CVS | Label Decorations | Text Decorations NOTE: There is a Mercurial Eclipse option under the top level menu in Window | Preferences.
Securing a Tomcat Webapp – Part 2
If you wish to password protect your webapp with an Apache .htaccess type authentication model, you require two configuration steps. The first within your WEB-INF/web.xml, add the following replacing rolename appropiately.
Securing a Tomcat Webapp
If you require a webapp to always run in https mode using a SSL key, then you need to add the following to your WEB-INF/web.xml configuration. <security-constraint> <web-resource-collection> <web-resource-name>jsp</web-resource-name> <url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern> <url-pattern>*.
MySQL Response to Bugs
I’ve read at times people complaining about the response to bugs, and people bag the support of MySQL on the forums at times. Well today I logged a bug, not the first and I’m sure it’s not the last.
Determining Linux Video Driver Refresh Rates
I found this cool command called glxgears that you can run under X. $ glxgears 10524 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2104.650 FPS 10003 frames in 5.0 seconds = 2000.501 FPS 8417 frames in 5.
Unexplained replication authentication behaviour
I’m playing with the latest 5.1.11 beta in a master/slave replication situation. Given a lack of H/W lying around I’m configuring a mixed H/W setup to leverage an existing office’s after hours CPUs running Windows XP for my slaves.
Web Sites – Delicious
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Web Sites – Instant Media
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Web Sites – Squarespace
WebSite: www.squarespace.com What is Squarespace? Squarespace is a great way to publish and manage a web site online. We let you snap together a web site in a flash that will allow you to manage all of your unique content right in one place.
Web Sites – Digg
WebSite: www.digg.com Digg is a user driven social content website. Ok, so what the heck does that mean? Well, everything on digg is submitted by the digg user community (that would be you).
Web Sites – Zimbra
WebSite: www.zimbra.com Zimbra is an open source server and client technology for next-generation messaging and collaboration. Zimbra delivers innovation for both the administrator and the end-user as well as compatibility with existing infrastructure and applications (both open source and proprietary).
Web Sites – Cacti
WebSite: www.cacti.net Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool’s data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller, advanced graph templating, multiple data acquisition methods, and user management features out of the box.
Web Sites – eyeOS
WebSite: www.eyeos.org eyeOS is an Open Source Web Desktop Environment, commonly known as Web Operating System or Web Office. With eyeOS you can be organized, work and have fun anywhere, using your own personalized Web Desktop.