Sep2003

RPM hangs — by antonh — last modified 07-Sep-06 11:48 AM

When installing the RPM packages with new SSL certificate for up2date, I got halfway through the install when RPM just hung. Came back half an hour later and still nothing was happening. So I killed it. Which seemed to have the effect of hanging the whole program on any subsequent attempts to run it. It's a "bug":http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88164 in rpm on RH8 & RH9. To fix it you need to do the following:: # pkill -9 rpm (if rpm is still hanging) # rm /var/lib/rpm/__db* That second line is the important one

The portal_metadata tool - another piece of the puzzle — by antonh — last modified 07-Sep-06 11:48 AM

Really must get into "this":http://cmf.zope.org/rqmts/new_use_cases/ConfigureMetadata.html

A study in bad web design — by antonh — last modified 07-Sep-06 11:48 AM

I just had the (mis)fortune of spending some time on the Australian Bureau of Statistics website. It was enough to make me feel like a blind man in a maze. There is a hell of a lot of information stored in there, as is obvious from a search, but a complete lack of a coherent navigation structure, combined with URLs like "this":http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3110122.NSF/0/a7649a04cba442384a25648a000872df?OpenDocument mean you really can't find anything at all.

The bully boy copyright barons under siege — by antonh — last modified 07-Sep-06 11:48 AM

I had a great discussion with Soren (my brother) the other day about the RIAA suing everybody who uses filesharing. It seemed pretty ridiculous to me. Someone kindly posted a lot of links on "Slashdot":http://slashdot.org/ so I thought I'd bookmark them here.

Handy page for Mandrake urpmi settings — by antonh — last modified 07-Sep-06 11:48 AM

"This":http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php site is hellar useful if you need to set up urpmi but don't exactly know what you are doing. Just select the mirrors you want to use, and it will tell you what to type in at the console. There is a similarly helpful page at "vsbabu.org.":http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2002/12/03/mandrake_9_getting_more_software.html

Decreasing Linux Bootup Time — by antonh — last modified 07-Sep-06 11:48 AM

"Link":http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html to an article on how to decrease boot times for linux (from "Slashdot":http://slashdot.org/ . Haven't had time to read it yet, but sounds like a good idea.

Installing python-ldap on Mandrake 9.1 — by antonh — last modified 07-Sep-06 11:48 AM

Well, it's been interesting. I've tried to install it before, and always hit a brick wall when testing it with 'import ldap' - I got an undefined_first_reference error. So here is how I actually got it installed and working...