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Yum on RHEL4
First off, apologies for not have posting anything in the last few weeks. I just got back from Manila, Philippines to visit my ill grandfather (read: father). He made it, but is still weak. I love you lolo! Anyway, I personally run Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 at work for any *nix tasks, and in this post…
Let the seat guru help you out
I haven’t been blogging due to my hectic schedule for the past week. Most time-consuming is the preparation and shopping I had to attend to for my trip to the Philippines to see my ill grandfather. I’ve been confirmed to fly on Eva Air via Taipei, Taiwan – and…I found a resource that will be…
Your personal regex coach and more
If you’ve worked on text parsing projects – or an app that needed it – then you know what regular expressions are. It truly has been a lifesaver for me on many, many occassions. If, however, you haven’t dealt with it before, here’s some background on it: According to Wikipedia, in computing, a regular expression…
Auto backup solution for your MySQL databases
I use MySQL as my database server, and thankfully, it’s been reliable and easy to use. A qualm I have, however, is that it doesn’t include a daily backup feature, unlike Microsoft SQL Server. The good thing is that the open source community has seen this problem and created a solution for it: AutoMySQLBackup. (You can…
Free Windows PowerShell course book
The Schweizer IT Professional and TechNet Blog is sharing a free Windows PowerShell course book that they’ve translated to English. The book seems to be pretty good. From their blog entry: Due to its great popularity, we have decided to translate the Windows PowerShell course book to English. So if your mother tongue is not…
Fix for undeletable user-defined Squirrelmail folder
I run my own mail server and use Squirrelmail to facilitate webmail access using HTTPS. I encountered problems trying to delete a folder that I created as part of a test to find out if things were working correctly: ERROR : Could not delete “Archive” Given: Invalid mailbox name SquirrelMail is a Webmail application started by Nathan…