Category Archives: *nix

Gentoo Gensplash Woes

Okay, time to try this again and not sound pissed off, cause I just spend the past 10 minutes typing this thing up and managed to hit “Ctrl+R” – destroying my work…. Okay, so last week I had gotten fed … Continue reading

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MySQL Connection Problems?

If you are trying to use a program to connect to MySQL (in my case, BugTracker, and you encounter the following problem: Host ‘localhost.localdomain’ is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server. This means that the program is trying … Continue reading

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OSCON Day 3

Day 3 ended the tutorials and began the sessions – the events that the majority of people showed up for. Keystones also precluded the days events, and the first Keynotes were rather intriguing. I heard talks from one of the … Continue reading

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OSCON – Day 2

Day 2 of OSCON training was rather sluggish and disappointing. There were several things that I found out that I already knew, but many things I wasn’t expecting from one of the talks, the High Performance PHP. Going into this, … Continue reading

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OSCON – Training Day 1

Today: Ruby and Rails Verdict: Better than awesome! First thoughts: Instructor name’s David Thomas. First thing on my mind: Wendy’s. lol, sorry, had to get that off my mind. Anywho, David Thomas and Mike Clark were the instructors for The … Continue reading

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Here at OSCON

Well, I am officially writing on the WIFI here at OSCON. After a long, approximate 9 hours of flight, waiting, more flight, waiting, a prezel, and more flying, both myself and Melissa made it here to Portland. I don’t thing … Continue reading

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Prepping for OSCON

Well, in just over a week I’ll be going to Portland, Oregon to attend my very first OSCON. My boss usually goes, and since I got staff at CIS too late last year, I didn’t have a chance to go … Continue reading

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xOrg and nvidia drivers for Linux

This is for a Debian system, but should work for any Linux box. The essential problem is that whenever you run an update for the nVidia drivers or xOrg or your Kernel, you might not be able to get into … Continue reading

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cPanel Training Day 2

Okay, so day 2 more or less sucked, minus a couple of things. The sessions were more or less mundane and didn’t cover very much. For the most part, I was working on client webpages and trying to get them … Continue reading

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cPanel Training Conference – Day 1

So yesterday was the first day of the Training Seminar. It was not as shabby as I thought it might be. I was kind of getting pissed off with the lack of communication they were providing me, so I figured … Continue reading

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