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Removing a MySQL index using a ruby on rails migration
I ran into a bit of a problem with the standard documentation regarding the removal of an index by way of a ruby on rails migration… at least with some of the old data living out on the web. My initial searches produced an incorrect method: remove_index :table_name, :named_index The correct method is: remove_index :table_name, [...]
Apache Zenoss Reverse Proxy
A few steps in making my zenoss installation more usefull. 1. Get rid of the localhost.localdomain in alert messages. Settings -> Daemons -> zenactions -> zopeurl Put in the full URL as it will be seen and appended to by alert messages. Because I anticipated using SSL my zopeurl looked something like this: https://myserver.name:2345 2. [...]
RedCar Text Editor on Fedora Core 10 (FC10) and Fedora Core 11 (FC11)
I use a lot of vi in writing ruby code. I’ve seen TextMate and wondered if such a beast exists for Linux… well, it does. It’s in the form of a ruby project called RedCar. I started down the path of installing it but couldn’t find instructions for Fedora and was running into problems getting the debian/ubuntu instructions to fly. That’s why this is here. If I ever have to do this again I’ll be glad I put these instructions here. I’ve done what I can to get this up and running in a clear way but your mileage may vary (YMMV).
Post back with comments and improvements.
rsync ext2/ext3 to samba/cifs
The problem seems to be the default method used by rsync to determine which files need to be considered for copying is not appropriate for use between linux and cifs/smb mounted file systems. My setup is a Maxtor Central Axis 1TB using CIFS mounted to a linux file system using a standard mount -t cifs [...]