setting up WordPress mail on CentOS
Today at work I set up a WordPress install on CentOS Linux so that it could send email. It’s pretty useful and …
merge sort, the eater of nodes
I’m so tickled to have completed an assignment for my Linux kernel class. The specification was as follows: Modify the algorithm that …
Grub Error 13 and 17 together
I just encountered a Grub Error 13 and a Grub Error 17 all for seemingly no reason. I fixed the problem, but …
grad party, friend code, KDE 4
Oy, what a week! I’ve worked at Lexmark every day since Monday, getting things finalized there and today was my last day. …
chmodding and Ruby
Recently, I switched from a Powerbook to a Macbook, and to copy my files from one to the other, I used a pen drive. Since my pen drive has a FAT file system, it treats everything as being executable. This, however, is not the case on a UNIX-like file system like OS X. In order to save myself the hassle of manually chmodding thousands of files, I wrote this Ruby script.
IBM swag and a roach-squashin’
I was trying to edit an old post, ‘PHP and forms’, this morning but I kept getting “Service Temporarily Unavailable.” Every time …
.bash_profile
eval `/opt/local/bin/lesspipe.sh`
function dir_access_color {
local DIR=”${1-$PWD}” COLOR=0
[[ -r "$DIR" ]] && COLOR=1 # red
[[ -w "$DIR" ]] && COLOR=2 # green
tput -S <<<$’bold\nsetaf ‘”$COLOR”
}
Grub Error 17
Note: if this tutorial doesn’t help you, possibly because fdisk reports your known Linux partition correctly as Linux, you might also try …