If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years, is that people are lazy and good at rationalizing. Why exercise, if a single chocolate will make you fat again? Why oppose a corrupt government, if they’ll just be replaced by someone worse? Why learn something new, if it’ll be obsolete in six [...]
I like Eclipse. It’s my main Java development tool, and I use it quite extensively for php as well. Mostly I’ve been using PHPEclipse, but it’s just not stopping on breakpoints placed on web server scripts. I gave Zend’s Eclipse PHP platform a shot as well, with the same results.
At this point I’m [...]
So you’ve just turned on Apache on OS X. You access http://localhost/ and it works just fine, but http://localhost/~username gives you an ominous 403 - Forbidden error.
Do you have FileVault enabled?
I had the same problem. FileVault seems to have changed the permissions on the home directory. You’ll need to execute:
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So you have a CentOs box and want to securely set up a subversion server with Apache, but keep finding only tutorials which are either:
Not for CentOs
Outdated
Not focused on security at all
Search no more. I just went through the process with CentOs 4.4, and here’s a walkthrough on how to do it.
I’ve reported on the past on some decent experiences with Parallels, as well as some negative ones. One of its main problems seems to be processor usage: like I had reported, Parallels uses 10% of a MacBook Pro’s Core 2 Duo processor even when it’s doing absolutely nothing - not even having a virtual [...]
There’s a good article on Read/WriteWeb about Numenta, a layered approach to artificial intelligence called Hierarchical Temporal Memory. From the article:
Similar to the neural networks, HTM does not have any prewired classification of the world. Instead, HTM accepts a sequence of spacio-temporal inputs and ‘learns’ the patterns in the input stream. [...]
Here’s something I didn’t know: Paypal runs its servers on Linux.
PayPal runs thousands of Linux-based, single-rack-unit servers, which host the company’s Web-presentation layer, middleware and user interface. Thompson says he quickly saw the economic, operational and development advantages of open source and Linux technology. He now sees no other way to [...]
Over a month has passed since my post about my Parallels and CentOs experience, where I mentioned that it was working rather well, and I would like to comment a bit more about it.
First of, pretty much everything I said on that post still holds: Parallels is convenient and quick to set up. Unfortunately, [...]
Linux and the Open Source movement have often been likened to communism. Now a LWN.net article takes the time to evaluate contributions to the Linux 2.6.20 kernel, and finds that at least 68% of the code (and possibly up to 92.3%, if we assume the Unkowns are just anonymous employers) was contributed by people [...]
I started testing out Parallels desktop on my MacBook Pro yesterday. The original plan was to use it to boot from my Boot Camp partition, so that I would be able to do Windows development without having to let go of all the other things I do in MacOS. That didn’t go to well. [...]