> The Dell is back in Windows land, with Windows 7 installed. I’m using it with the setup I detailed here and everything works as expected. A word about Emacs. I spent quite a bit of time over the last couple of months sorting out the mish mash of different emacs configs I had running. Now there is one config which handles everything I want it to. Whereas before I used to keep the configs in svn, this time I…
>This morning I got pgtop working but had some questions which I forwarded to the author Cosimo Streppone. In his very polite reply he pointed out I should really be using pg_top (note the hyphen) so I then set to getting that to work on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Download the latest release from the site above (I downloaded pg_top-3.6.2.tar.gz) and then tar -zxpvf pg_top-3.6.2.tar.gz cd pg_top-3.6.2./configure make It’s very possible you might get some errors during this. The three I…
>From my own benefit … to help with installing and maintaining our old ruby apps, do this sudo apt-get install rails rubygems irb rubysudo gem install -y rails –version=1.2.3sudo gem install -y rake –version=0.7.3sudo gem install -y postgres-pr The problem with this is that it’s not sitting in your path and Ubuntu will keep asking you to install rails via apt. So sudo ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/rails /usr/local/bin/railssudo ln -s /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin/rake /usr/local/bin/rake
>It arrived a day late and is looking pretty cool so far. So I’m typing this with MarsEdit first of all to see how I get on what that. What have I noticed about the new machine. Some random comments made in no particular order. Here’s the low down on the specs of the Machine. Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores:…
>OK, I’ve been using this setup for over a week. I’m a developer /sys admin who needs a Linux environment and who is stuck with just a Vista laptop. So here’s my solution. Certainly not a perfect solution but a lot better than some I’ve used in the past. The idea is that we run Ubuntu (or any Linux disto) within a VMware machine (I assume the free VMware player would work for this, but i’m using VMware workstation). We…
>So you’ve just installed cyrus imap on Hardy Heron and you can’t seem to connect. You try a test telnet session and get icottee@ijcdev:~$ telnet localhost 143 Trying 127.0.0.1… Connected to localhost. Escape character is ‘^]’. * BYE Fatal error: can’t write proc file Connection closed by foreign host. Take a look in /var/log/mail.err and you’ll see stuff like May 19 22:13:15 ijcdev cyrus/imap[8316]: DBERROR: dbenv->open ‘/var/lib/cyrus/db’ failed: Permission denied May 19 22:13:15 ijcdev cyrus/imap[8316]: DBERROR: init() on berkeley May…