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Ubuntu 10.10 – A thing of beauty

Usually I am aware of the latest version of the Ubuntu operating system arriving a little before it's release time. This is mainly because there is some new feature that I am hanging out to try or bug that I want to leave behind. This time around I've been happily...

yum update Metadata file does not match checksum

Just had yum update cause a "Metadata file does not match checksum" As usual Google had an answer but for me it didn't work... My error was caused by danguardian web filtering blocking the download of the yum repository metadata files Dansguardian is configured with...

LinkedIn – Facebook for Adults

Time sinks: Facebook Twitter Stumbleupon I find LinkedIn is less of a time chewer, of course you can have many hours of fun updating your profile to include just about every facet of work experience you've been through. Creative writing :). I'm noticing LinkedIn...

32 bit Apache on Windows 7 x64 Error

Problem C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\bin>httpd.exe Syntax error on line 62 of C:/Program Files (x86)/Apache Software Foundation/Apa che2.2/conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf: SSLSessionCache: Invalid argument: size has to be >= 8192 bytes Cause...

Thunderbird Segmentation fault – Ubuntu 10.04

Just been having a world of annoyance with Thunderbird seg faulting. I don't know what caused it but I did install the Netbook Unity Desktop environment (which incidentally doesn't work on my box). So after the above I got: This fails myuser@mybox:~$ thunderbird...