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 [...]
Deploying an Oracle database is one thing, but doing a good recovery backup plan is another matter. Good for us, Oracle comes with its own tool for doing backups called “RMAN”. Sure, one can do backup with the Enterprise Manager, but with it you will need to shut down the database in order to do [...]
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 [...]
Like many others I installed Snow Leopard on my Mac and like many I’m most of the time very happy with it. But there are some things that still don’t work as expected. Especially troublesome is when working Hardware can not be used anymore. Unfortunately, I had one of those experiences today. As a owner [...]
If you are moving on the web and are surrounded by many little gadgets or simply want to be informed where the society is heading you own it to yourself to watch the Fall Edition of the famous “Shift Happens” series. This one is called “Did you know 4.0″.
I just found the below Video over at the PresentationZen Blog. Since I have a total urge to go to Japan (don’t know why, just feels like the right thing) I thought this video to be a nice introduction to Japan/Tokyo. For all those who feel the same, enjoy!
This is another interesting talk over at the TED website entitled “How to read each other’s mind”. Thought I think the title is a bit misleading, the talk goes into how our minds and perception over time changes as we grow up. After 10 minutes of her talk you get to a very interesting passage [...]