Apple USB implementation sucks monkeyballs

2008-01-15 stintel  3 minute read

OK, this issue has annoyed me long enough. Time for some ranting. I have a PC running Windows Vista. I have an iPod Shuffle, and I also have an iPhone. Now, the combination of these things is just terrible. Whenever I connect my iPhone or my iPod to my PC, I get the annoying message "This USB device can perform faster if you connect it to a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port".

Emerging mysql-gui-tools

2008-01-15 stintel  1 minute read

Some time ago I tried "emerge mysql-gui-tools" on my Gentoo x86_64 box. Unfortunately, the compilation process failed because of some errors (will include the error in this post when I find the time to reproduce it). Today, I'm preparing myself for MySQL DBA certification, and I really need the MySQL Administrator tool, so at first I downloaded the precompiled tar archive from the MySQL website, which worked without any problems.

Apache 2.2 + LDAP authentication

2008-01-14 stintel  1 minute read

Since Apache version 2.2, the LDAP authentication module is no longer called auth_ldap, but rather authnz_ldap. During a migration of an Apache 2.0 to Apache 2.2, I ran into some problems which caused a failure to start Apache.

Netconsole

2007-12-24 stintel  1 minute read

Ever tried setting up netconsole under Linux, but never received anything from the kernel log on the machine configured as target in the netconsole module? Check the kernel.printk setting in sysctl.

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