Category Archives: Systems Administration

Installing the oAuth pecl extension on Mac OS X with Zend Server Community Edition

I’m running Zend Server Community Edition on Mac OS X. I attempted to install the PECL oAuth extension by using the simple command: sudo pecl install oauth The installation went fine, but when I attempted to find pecl in my … Continue reading

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My Move to Improving Enterprises, Part 1

This blog article has turned into a ridiculously long posting that I’m splitting into 2, possibly 3 parts. The series pretty much recaps what I did at the College of Architecture and what I’m doing at Improving Enterprises. Enjoy! For … Continue reading

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MyServiceHostFactory could not be loaded during host compilation

Last Friday and this morning I had been trying to deploy the latest changes to my WCF application. As I started doing this the manual way (e.g. copying all DLLs, configs, and service endpoints into a directory to zip and … Continue reading

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NetApp vSphere Virtual Storage Console Woes

As I was looking for ways to better interact with our NetApp FAS2050, I came across an article detailing the Virtual Storage Console. Being intrigued, I decided to install it on our vCenter Server. The install went fine and the … Continue reading

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pg_service.conf Syntax

I am setting up monitoring for my PostgreSQL database server, and ran across a cool way to get around specifying the username/password via the command-line every time the checks are run: pg_service.conf. Unfortunately, there is very little documentation on the … Continue reading

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JIRA Failed to Find DataSource

If you were a luck systems administrator who followed the instructions for a Tomcat container installation using the EAR-WAR install when setting up Atlassian JIRA, then you may have been privileged to see the following error message in your log … Continue reading

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Mac OS X Mobility – Not Worth the Headache

I recently upgraded my student worker workstations up to Snow Leopard (Mac OS X.6) to take advantage of the better integration with Active Directory and Exchange. The primary reason: getting network home drives working correctly. We have a set schedule … Continue reading

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Strange LDAP & Sudo Problem

After several updates of various systems software packages on my Gentoo Linux servers, I began to notice a problem where I was being denied sudo access. The solution was amazingly simple, once I actually Googled to figure out what was … Continue reading

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Zend Studio 7 Linux Problem

I seem to be surrounded by problems these days. Zend has announced that Zend Studio 7 is now in Beta, so I figured I’d go give it a try since I was having so many problems with Eclipse being sluggish … Continue reading

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Vimperator and Tab Mix Plus

I typically only install Mozilla Firefox plugins that I find really useful and help improve my browsing experience. Because I’m a hardcore Linux geek, I also love applications such as vim, which is a text-based, high-performance editor. When I head … Continue reading

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