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In this section of our site we share some of our real world experiences. Hopefully you'll find these articles informative, educational or even slightly amuzing.

only if everything was over SSL Print E-mail
Wednesday, 30 July 2008 12:02

I love SSL.  If it weren't for the extra payload that it puts on both the network, client, and server I'd suggest it for everything.  I've baked-up a quick Apache mod_rewrite recipe that will force all traffic to SSL:

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rookie admins Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 10:23

I had the pleasure today of cleaning up the mess of an admin at the hosting company of one of my clients. Unfortunately, this tends to be a normal affair, but not typical of this parciular hosting company (names have been changed to protect the identity of those involved ;-)).

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ATrpms or dag/RPMForge Print E-mail
Monday, 19 May 2008 11:22

I was faced with the challenging question of whether or not to use dag/RPMForge or ATrpms today.  I had some struggles dealing with both, but made my final decision based on flexibility.

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quick install of phpmyadmin Print E-mail
Thursday, 15 May 2008 23:18

While phpmyadmin looks quite complicated to install due the countless number of options that you can find in the config files, I've got a pretty simple way to install it that seems supporting of security policies that are placed on the server elsewhere.

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mpeg4ip compile problems Print E-mail
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Thursday, 08 May 2008 09:19

A customer challenged me to getting mpeg4ip compiled on their development server so they could start creating quicktime movies on the fly. RPMForge (DAG) provided most of the RPM's to get things running quickly with ffmpeg, etc, etc. The main problem was the RPM's from DAG used libmp4v2 in their faac installation. To use mpeg4ip, this library needs to be removed from faac, so external mp4 support can be used (hence mpeg4ip).

Attachments:
FileDescriptionFile Size
 faac.specfaac RPM spec2 Kb
 mpeg4ip.patchmpeg4ip patch needed for compiling8 Kb
 mpeg4ip.specmpeg4ip RPM spec2 Kb
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