Woke up one morning with an awesome message in the server logs: smartd[18500]: Device: /dev/sdd [SAT], 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Any hard disk error is a nightmare. It’s even more interesting when you have no ideea what happened.
Author: ghost3k
MySQL – Converting large tables to InnoDB faster
Why? The purpose of this article is to show you some tips that may help you reduce the conversion time of MySQL tables when switching to InnoDB. Although this is not going to be a problem anymore since MySQL is using InnoDB by default in newer versions, there are still people out there using MyISAM […]
Workaround for gettext caching issue in PHP
gettext is the GNU internationalization and localization (i18n) library, which can be used in almost any programming language. And, of course, it can be used under PHP too, to internationalize your web applications. I will not go into gettext usage details, there are enough resources available for that. Official PHP gettext documentation: http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.gettext.php A nice […]
Postfix + Dovecot
I have just moved to a new server last week, so I started fresh and decided to go ahead with a new mail server configuration. On the old server I was using qmail+vpopmail+courier. qmail – smtp, pop3 server vpopmail – provides mailbox & virtual domain management courier – for the imap server part I got […]
Notebook Design
I don’t like all these new and fancy models. Why are all the cables on left/right side, it must be really cute having cables going out of the laptop on the left on your desk, what a mess. Why are the audio jacks in front, now really, why would you want to have cables in […]
Height for an empty div in Internet Explorer
I have just found about this stupid problem yesterday when trying to add some nice round corners to a page. I was using 4 empty div’s, setting the positions and a background image trough css. Everything was okay in SeaMonkey and Opera, but definitely not ok on Internet Explorer. Trying to debug the problem, I […]