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toStr revisited
After my initial toStr C++ exploration, I recent found myself reading about Boost’s lexical_cast, which is does something similar, albeit more general and with more verbosity. lexical_cast will not only convert nearly anything to a string, it will also do its best to convert anything to anything, via a string in the middle. Upon finding…
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Zones on a single server
A few months ago my co-located Solaris server was hit by a root kit that setup a IRC bot. It appeared that it got it by attacking one of the off the shelf web apps I use. To prevent having to do a complete rebuild in the future if this happens again, I decided to…
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Another
And another picture of David Now that he has had a bath and is finally at home.
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Meet The Newbie
Yep, that’s David alright. Deb has the details elsewhere for those that follow her. He is less crusty looking now then an in the picture, but still has the IV in.
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Samsung BD-P1590, semi-review
This is an affordable BluRay player that also supports some streaming media. It works with Blockbuster Direct, Netflix, Youtube, and Pandora radio. As far as I can see, Netflix and YouTube are increasingly common features, but Pandora is unique to this device. To cut to the chase, I rather like this device. I especially like…
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Crockpot Jambalaya
Sorry, no picture this time since I was taking it to a church function. I think that the seasoning could use some tweaking, maybe a bit less cayenne. Also, the cooking time for me should have been closer to the smaller number listed, rather than the larger number. The one time I did make it,…
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Setting up a jumpstart server for Solaris Express.
I guess this post will have a somewhat limited life span since Solaris Express is being retired in favor of OpenSolaris. However, some of the pages I always refereed to every time I needed to do this have disappeared, so I’m writing it up again anyway for future reference. Maybe I’ll update it again when…
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PostgreSQL connection pooling for mod_php
In a quest for better performance with postgres, I’ve been looking for connection pooling tools. There are a few quirks that I tend to require be met. First, it must run on Solaris. This isn’t so much a quirk, since the server runs Solaris and is SPARC hardware, and I’m not going to install a…
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How to reset a wordpress user password via SQL.
I found I had forgotten an admin password on a WordPress site I run. After figuring out how to reset it, I thought I would stick it here so that I can find it myself again in the future. UPDATE wp_users SET user_pass=MD5(‘secret_password_here’) WHERE user_login = ‘yourself’;
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Databases for simple web development
I have log been a fan of PostgreSQL over MySQL, believe that PostgreSQL is more feature complete and generally as fast or faster, with obvious caveats about being used appropriately, of course, and not to mention no real comparative testing. Every body gets to have an untested opinion, right? I did end up doing some…