Author Archives: Stefan Rubner

Building A 64-bit Resin On Solaris 10 Using SunStudio 12u1

Posted on 2010-07-01 by Stefan Rubner

This has been bothering me for quite some time. Resin is one of the best application servers I’ve come across. But to get the best performance out of it, you need to recompile it for your platform. While this is … Continue reading →

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Steuer-Mann

Posted on 2010-06-30 by Stefan Rubner

Quelle: BZ 28.6.2010

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Porting For The Sun: The Zlib Problem (ld.so.1: exe: fatal: relocation error: R_AMD64_32:)

Posted on 2010-06-27 by Stefan Rubner

With the recent update of the Sun Studio 12 compiler set I started seeing errors like this when compiling for example MySQL from source: ld.so.1: exe: fatal: relocation error: R_AMD64_32: Turns out that it was Zlib 1.2.5 causing the problem. … Continue reading →

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Bash: Dynamic Variables

Posted on 2010-06-24 by Stefan Rubner

Every once in a while I need to use dynamic variables in shell scripts for doing things like echo ${{$foo}_bar} but unfortunately it won’t work like shown in the example above. What will work however is this: Incoming search terms:bash … Continue reading →

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Honey, Honey

Posted on 2010-06-23 by Stefan Rubner

Fresh honey. Not from the Maestro this time, but from our own bees instead. Delicious. Incoming search terms:who cares honey

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WordPress 3.0: In the Update-Loop

Posted on 2010-06-18 by Stefan Rubner

After updating my WordPress installation to 3.0 I was stuck in the Update Loop. Every time I tried to access the admin interface WordPress would send me to the database update page where it then would say “No Update Required”. … Continue reading →

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Schlimmer geht immer

Posted on 2010-06-12 by Stefan Rubner

Immer wenn ich denke, jetzt kann Werbung nicht mehr schrottiger werden, kommt ein neuer Held ums Eck und belehrt mich eines Besseren.

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Dnsmasq for ReadyNAS (Sparc & Intel)

Posted on 2010-05-24 by Stefan Rubner

Two things I’ve always missed on the ReadyNAS were a DNS server to serve my local network and a fully fledged DHCP server allowing me to assign IP addresses to my machines based on their MAC address. Dnsmasq can do … Continue reading →

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Hard Typing Ahead

Posted on 2010-05-14 by Stefan Rubner

This camera module is known to be mounted upside-down in some notebooks. Applications that use the libv4l library should display the video correctly, as libv4l detects upside-down cameras and rotates the image automatically. See Hans de Goede’s post on the … Continue reading →

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iSCSI Enterprise Target 1.4.20.1 for ReadyNAS (Sparc)

Posted on 2010-05-10 by Stefan Rubner

And yet another update: Took me some fixing of the sources but I finally was able to build a new release of the iSCSI Add-On for ReadyNAS. This release adds a lot of stability fixes of which mainly Solaris and … Continue reading →

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WebSVN 2.3.1 for ReadyNAS (Sparc & Intel)

Posted on 2010-05-09 by Stefan Rubner

Since I was already updating the SVN stuff for the ReadyNAS line I thought I might as well upgrade the WebSVN add-on. So here we go: ReadyNAS NV(+)/Duo/1100/X6: WebSVN_2.3.1-readynas-1.0.0.bin ReadyNAS Pro/NVX/2100/3200: WebSVN_2.3.1-readypro-1.0.0.bin Incoming search terms:readynas php sparcwebsvn 2 3 1 … Continue reading →

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Subversion 1.6.11 for ReadyNAS (Sparc & Intel)

Posted on 2010-05-08 by Stefan Rubner

Since I had some spare time I decided to upgrade my Subversion add-on for the ReadyNAS line. For a complete list of changes since the last version (1.6.6) see the official changelog. Downloads: For ReadyNAS NV(+)/Duo/1100/X6: subversion_1.6.11-readynas-1.0.0.bin For ReadyNAS Pro/NVX/2100/3200: … Continue reading →

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So You Need A Typeface?

Posted on 2010-04-21 by Stefan Rubner

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Weltfrieden

Posted on 2010-04-21 by Stefan Rubner

Vorhin rief ‘ne Kundin an, ob ich Passwort weiß. Ich merke mir Passwörter eigentlich nie. Aber an weltfrieden konnte ich mich in der Tat erinnern. Wäre mir wohl ähnlich gegangen.

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Süss

Posted on 2010-04-14 by Stefan Rubner
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Dedicated to the Job

Posted on 2010-04-10 by Stefan Rubner

Incoming search terms:правило рубнера

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Apache Patch: Pass environment variables to backends connected via mod_proxy_ajp

Posted on 2009-11-20 by Stefan Rubner

One popular method to connect Tomcat or JBoss to the Apache web server is using mod_proxy_ajp. This of course works very well except for the case where you want to pass some environment variables to the backends. This is especially … Continue reading →

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Code of the day

Posted on 2009-11-18 by Stefan Rubner

#if __APPLE__ && __MAC_OS_X_VERSION_10_5 int inxorcise(int nochdir __attribute__((unused)),               int noclose __attribute__((unused))) {     fprintf(stderr, "Apple does not want programs to use         daemon(3) and suggests using launchd(1).  We don’t … Continue reading →

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Varnish 2.0.5 released

Posted on 2009-11-09 by Stefan Rubner

As mentioned here, Varnish 2.0.5 has been released. Changes include performance improvements on Linux and reduced memory consumption when processing ESI. Going to test it on this site in a few …

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Bacula 3.0.3 for ReadyNAS NV/NV+/Duo/1100/X6

Posted on 2009-11-05 by Stefan Rubner

Just a few days after I released Bacula 3.0.2 for ReadyNAS it’s time for an update. With Bacula 3.0.3, the developers included another bunch of bug fixes and enhancements. Update on the ReadyNAS should pose no problems since I also … Continue reading →

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