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Rackspace Cloud – Uptime

uptime 05:29:01 up 44 days, 4:54, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.03, 0.00 Since I went to a small Rackspace cloud server I was concerned whether it would be stable. I have only had the account for a couple of months but the uptime is consistent with my last reboot so...

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Wherefore art though php_dbase.dll?

Trying to save some time by installing a pre-configured WAMP environment (Windows Apache MySQL and PHP). I downloaded the latest Bitnami WAMPStack and found that it didn't have php_dbase.dll in the $PHP_DIR/ext/ dir. A planned retreat worked. This version has...

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Getting Skype running on Fedora 16

Download and install the latest skype rpm ( I installed Skype (Beta) Version 2.2.0.35) Try it and you get missing libs... libQtDbus and libQtgui and all sorts of missing libs So run ldd /usr/bin/skype to track down what's missing then go and install the packages # I'm...

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Fedora 16 and the winner is… Useability

I installed the Fedora 16 beta a few weeks back and was mostly pleasantly suprised at Beta things just worked. I've heard a few neg reviews regarding brain dead install failures namely install failing if you have a separate /var partition. But apart from that. Fedora...

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