According to Groklaw, the long running battle between SCO and Novell may finally be over. The Judge ruled that SCO, the company that claimed Linux infringed on it’s IP and sued everybody in sight, never did own any rights to Unix in the first place, and has ordered the company to pay millions. Novell and [...]

Posted November 24, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: lawsuit, linux, Novell, SCO. Be the first one.

Yum up some packages:

yum install php-pear php-devel httpd-devel

Install APC using pear (the pear installer is smarter than the pecl installer):
When the installer asks about APXS, say ‘no’. 

pear install pecl/apc

Tell PHP to load APC:

echo extension=apc.so > /etc/php.d/apc.ini

Restart Apache:

/sbin/service httpd graceful

Posted September 14, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: apc, Centos, documentation, install, linux, php, rhel, system administration. 9 Comments.

Stuck with PHP 5.1.6 on RHEL or even CentOS (and a sysadmin who insists on using packages)? Need JSON? I did. The solution is easy:
yum install php-devel
pecl install json
The pecl install failed when it hit an 8MB memory limit, and I was clueless about how to fix it until I learned that the pecl installer [...]

Posted May 28, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: documentation, install, json, linux, php, red hat, rhel, system administration, yum. 6 Comments.

how to install and configure MySQL database server
yum, mysql, linux, yellow dog updater modified

Posted June 12, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink. Tags: linux, mysql, yellow dog updater modified, yum. Be the first one.

At work I use Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but my personal stuff is served from machines running CentOS. Both distros were just bumped to version 5, bringing with them support for current components of the LAMP stack.
I care because I want Apache 2.2.4, and while it’s pretty easy to get MySQL & PHP 5 on [...]

Posted May 9, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: apache 2.2, Centos, centos 5, linux, release. Be the first one.

The real map of the world’s top 100 supercomputers isn’t nearly as US-centric as my screenshot suggests, but the operating system stats are seriously tilted toward Linux. Over 400 of the top 500 supercomputers in the November 2006 report run some form of the free operating system. Generic “Linux” leads the pack, but Redhat and [...]

Posted March 14, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: linux, operating systems, seymour cray, stats, supercomputers, supercomputing, top 500. Be the first one.

Holy smokes. As Dell’s sales slump and stock remains flat, the famously unimaginative company is trying to tap into the Mob for ideas about what new shade of grey to deliver its hardware in next. And what did the Dell IdeaStorm mob say?
“Give us Linux!”
“Give Us OpenOffice.”
And how did Dell respond?
“No. No. And, [...]

Posted March 6, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: dell, Dell IdeaStorm, IdeaStorm, linux, Michael Dell, mob, OpenOffice, users. 2 Comments.

I got tipped to this geeky-funny comic that deserves reposting here for casual friday:

sysop, humor, linux, sudo, make me a sandwich, sandwich, cartoon

Posted September 15, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music. Tags: cartoon, humor, linux, make me a sandwich, sandwich, sudo, sysop. 2 Comments.

How to Install iPod Linux on 1 & 2G mini, 4G, Photo
ipod, linux, tutorial

Posted October 31, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink. Tags: ipod, linux, tutorial. Be the first one.

The MAKE: podcast pointed me to gumstix — really small computers built for hacking. Cool.

tags: gumstix, hacking, hardware hacking, linux, linux computer, make magazine, make podcast, tiny, tiny computer, tiny linux

Posted July 17, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Technology. Tags: gumstix, hacking, hardware hacking, linux, linux computer, make magazine, make podcast, tiny, tiny computer, tiny linux. 2 Comments.