CentOS, being a “legal copy” of RedHat, as good as it is, comes with some really outdated libraries.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 [...]
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 [...]
I had to spent way too much time the last time to set up ImageMagick and Ghostscript together that I simply jump right in so you don’t have to waste time on this, like I did. Creating thumbnails and images from a PDF is one of the most used features within Razuna. But the other [...]
My two other posts on FFmpeg entitled “Installing ffmpeg on CentOS 5” and “SELinux with ffmpeg” already explained in deep how to get FFmpeg up and running. Unfortunately, today one of our servers just reported a plain: ffmpeg: error while loading shared libraries: libfaad.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory when [...]
I run into a nasty issue the other day with “alike” directories in my web application. That is, I had a copy of a “WEB-INF” directory called “WEB-INF–”. While my web application did not bother with copy of the WEB-INF directory, Tomcat threw all kinds of errors in the catalina.out log file. Also, I had [...]
My favorite choice for running a Linux Server is CentOS, since it is based on the RedHat distribution you can rest assured you will get a top notch enterprise offering and stability. As with all things “enterprise” the priority is on stability and security and not on the latest code releases. This works 99% of [...]
Matt Mullenweg of the famous WordPress application talks in the below video about GPL and why WordPress uses it. I recently had some discussions with some people why Razuna, our Open Source Media Management (Digital Asset Management) Solution, uses the AGPL and why we chose it. It think Matt brings it right to the point [...]
Social theorist Jonathan Zittrain gave a very entertaining and enlightening talk about the random kindness on the Internet and how we can all benefit from this worldwide “kindness”. Listening to his talk, you will also understand why open source works and why people spend many many hours contributing to projects without getting any financial rewards [...]
SELinux is a good thing, but it also requires you to watch out on some libraries. Sometimes, something just fails, because SELinux does not allow it to run. This so happens when you have SELinux installed and want to run FFMpeg. I just run into this when I tried to run FFMpeg and got this [...]