CentOS, being a “legal copy” of RedHat, as good as it is, comes with some really outdated libraries. This has caused many, including myself, to find way how to bring latest code releases into CentOS. Be it by alternatives repros or compiling the packages. Now, I don’t know how I could overlook it, but I [...]
Mind you, I’m no PHP guru and I only have PHP installed on our server because of our WordPress blogs. that said, I was facing an ugly PHP error today and somehow we could not load the WordPress admin pages anymore of it. The error was: PHP Warning: Module ‘fileinfo’ already loaded in Unknown on [...]
Seth Godin had a great idea by gathering the thoughts of over 70 people, each giving you ideas what to think about as we go into a new year. He publishes the book now for free. Here is one of my favorite ones from Dave Balter: A long time ago, starting a company that made [...]
Running an Oracle database is great, because it is stable and just runs, but sometimes you are hit with unexpected errors when you restart your machine. Thought, I know Oracle quite well, I’m always surprised at some things. Here are two errors (and solution) I was just confronted with: ORA-27101: shared memory realm does not [...]