For years, Webmasters always faced a major problem: How to be sure that data provided in an online form come from a “human” and not a bot? (ex: to extra contacts of databases or to flood with false data)
New Solaris live-CD – BeleniX
There are more and more Solaris Live-CD available. I already tested SchilliX a few months ago. Yesterday, a colleague talked about BeleniX, a new one, based on OpenSolaris. I burned the latest iso image and tested on a HP notebook nx7010. Everything was detected without problems! (FastEthernet, Wifi (802.11g), DVD-burner,
ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server during query
I spent two hours to debug why my $^#@! MySQL server refused to accept connections from remote clients. The firewall was ok, the grant rules too. The connections was interrupted with a nice: ERROR 2013 (HY000): Lost connection to MySQL server during query The server (running OpenBSD was compiled with
I google, you google, we google…
google became officially a verb in the Webster dictionary!
Decent MIB viewer for Linux?
<flame on> Why is there no decent MIB viewer for Linux? Somebody suggested tkmib. But impossible to run it… If you know one, please post some info! </flame off> [Updated 11/07/2006] I just posted this article and found one: mbrowse!
Real Game
Found on youtube.com.
The ARC Cache effect
I installed a new server which uses the Solaris 10 (6/06) best features: ZFS (now officially supported by Sun) and zones. A few hours after the setup, I started the applications and data transfer. Immediately, the memory was almost full (only 300MB free) !? No big process running, nothing strange,
IE incompatibility
Wooops! There was some incompatibility with Internet Explorer! I fixed some errors in the CSS code.
No swap file on ZFS?
A developer just requested extra swap space on a Solaris 10 server for debugging purpose. I quickly created a 4GB file using mkfile(1M). Then, tried to add this space and got the following error: [ 00:17 root@13-www3 0 ] /zpool # swap -a /zpool/swap /zpool/swap: Invalid operation for this filesystem