Since I’m currently taking Windows 7 for a test drive I had to set up a copy VirtualBox with Ubuntu 8.10 in order to make use of the terminal (I can’t stand PuTTY or any other Windows alternative). In the past I had always used VMWare so this was my first venture into the land […]
Month: January 2009
I don’t use Postgres very often, as I prefer MySQL, however a project I took over was built off Postgres and I find myself running into silly little road blocks. Today I encountered one that made me want to slap the developer when I finally realized what was going on. I created a simple insert […]
Every now and then one of my servers will stop working because the hard drive or one of its partitions has filled up. In almost every case it has simply been choking on a log file that grew to massive proportions, but not always. There are a lot of linux commands that will help you […]