Posts under ‘Computers’

I’ve finally found a relatively cheap dedicated webhost, that allows me to evade this stupid VPS bullshit and actually let me do what I want. That host is called Hetzner Online, located in Germany.
If you don’t need mission critical hosting and can accept running your stuff on consumer hardware, this might just be for you. [...]

So I had my machine idling there, while I was doing some paper work (i.e. bills), noticing that the disks make a short ruckus periodically. Trying to find out what it was, I dtraced my system.
Turns out that Firefox seems to maintain a temporary SQLite database, which holds a copy your browsing history. That database [...]

If you’re in need of Linux emulation for whatever reason under Solaris, you’ve an existing mechanism at hand called BrandZ. The seemingly supported distros however are CentOS 3/4 and 5. Kind of antique. Stuff like Ubuntu or various other distros don’t seem to work. However if you really need an updated userland, try Fedora 9.
You [...]

I’ve tried to build the source from scratch and hacked the configure file in various ways, nothing helped. I’m not sure what the problem is, it looks like the C# compiler in the Mono Lite package freaking out for some reason. To actually build it properly, you have to have an existing working C# compiler. [...]

Seriously, why use autoconf if you need to go hands on anyway? That shit started somewhere with the 2.4.x releases and is fucking retarded and annoying. See this:
checking for GTKSPELL… no
configure: error:
GtkSpell development headers not found.
Use –disable-gtkspell if you do not need it.
Duh? How about you just go about implying that parameter then? Like how [...]

While we wait for Sun to fill up its IPS repository for OpenSolaris and whether third parties create good repos or not (Blastwave, yach!), here’s a three links to binary packages that might interest you and shouldn’t be missing on any system (I’ve tested them only under Solaris Nevada/OpenSolaris). All links are SVR4 packages:
Transmission 1.21: [...]