When life gives you lemons that you need to run in .net on linux and that linux is a centos6 you can use these centos 6.4 rpms to sweeten the experience a little. libgdiplus-devel-2.10-6.el6.x86_64.rpm libgdiplus-2.10-6.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-winfx-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-mvc-devel-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-mvc-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-core-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-nunit-devel-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-nunit-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-devel-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-locale-extras-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-extras-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-winforms-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-wcf-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-web-devel-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-web-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-data-sqlite-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-data-postgresql-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-data-oracle-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-data-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm ibm-data-db2-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm monodoc-devel-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm monodoc-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm … Read More →
Been some time I had a DNS server with enough zones and queries so I have to worry about the numbers. And oh boy the time flies. Even at ISC. So, assuming you have a BIND 9.5 and above, there is this super new feature that didn’t even get yet to the man page of … Read More →
The amazon ec2 is no good for sending email. It will most probably end in spam or will be refused by MX’es. There are two quick paths to avoid this problem. The first is offered as a solution by Amazon and it is sending email through Amazon SES. The second is to setup a relay … Read More →
sudo wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/Fedora_17/games.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/steam.repo rpm -ivh http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/Fedora_17/src/steam-1.0.0.18-1.1.src.rpm cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS rpmbuild -bb steam.spec sudo yum localinstall ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/steam-1.0.0.18-1.1.x86_64.rpm steam Or here
I needed to save web pages screenshots. The closest option to my initial environment was Fedora Linux 16 on Amazon EC2 is python-webkit2png. To make it work on the headless server and render flashes I had to: Get the base Fedora AMI running, I’ve selected the first one I’ve found (ami-7bf4c90f) and ran it … Read More →
My first Linux installed and used was RedHat 5.0 Hurricane from 1997. And I’ve been a RedHat desktop user until the 9 came out in 2003. Now 8 years later I am back again. Been long lost in many distributions but seems like finally fedora convinced me to come back 🙂 So here I am … Read More →
In the Modest, n900 default (not that there are many alternatives) mail client, you can’t save the email you send to server. Not implemented. If an IMAP user, which is the one who usually wants to keep his messages in order, comes to n900 with all the glory, he will have to manually drag his … Read More →
Problem: you have a shared remote backup space and you want to backup sensitive data from your servers There is a plenty of options out there, in my situation I have a Linux server with shell access where to take files and a shell account on BSD with 75GB of space where to put these … Read More →
If you ( better not you, but **** happens) remove your /etc on redhat/centos 5 and you still have an open remote root shell, here is what you have to do to make sure you still can reach the host (I wouldn’t write it if I had a backup): 0. Say f***********ck, take a deep … Read More →