http://richardfearn.co.uk Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:05:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've been using Firefox 3 for a while now - I've used the portable version on Windows, and Firefox 3 is the default browser on Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8.04. RC2 was released a few days ago so I think it's time to take the plunge and upgrade. Foxmarks appears to ... http://richardfearn.co.uk/2008/06/09/upgrading-to-firefox-3/ If you install two (or more) Linux distributions on one machine, then by default they both install grub to the master boot record (MBR). The second distribution's grub menu therefore overwrites the first. For example, on my laptop, I have Windows on /dev/sda2, Fedora 8 on /dev/sda5 and Debian 4.0 (etch) ... http://richardfearn.co.uk/2008/03/14/chainloading-from-one-grub-to-another/ Launching the Fedora installer over the network, as well as having a local mirror of the Fedora repository, means you don't need to burn a CD or DVD. It's a convenient way of trying out a new distro. I've done this for Fedora 8. I have a local Fedora repository on ... http://richardfearn.co.uk/2008/02/02/booting-the-fedora-installer-with-pxe/ This is how I build pssh on Windows XP, using Cygwin and prc-tools. Install Cygwin Firstly install Cygwin. When asked for the Download Site, enter http://prc-tools.sourceforge.net/install and click "Add". Now choose this new site, and also choose a mirror close to you (Ctrl-click to select multiple sites in the list). I find it ... http://richardfearn.co.uk/2007/10/04/building-pssh-using-cygwin/ Ever since updating my gateway to Fedora 7, I've been getting messages like this in my daily Logwatch: 84   *Warning: Pre-queue content-filter connection overload Worrying that I might be losing mail, I looked at the logwatch script for postfix in /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/postfix, and discovered that this message refers to lost connections from clients whose ... http://richardfearn.co.uk/2007/08/24/pre-queue-content-filter-connection-overload/ NFS mounts were taking ages using Ubuntu. The server was OK (I'd used it from other Linux clients without any problems). I noticed this in the logs: May 22 20:32:37 penguin kernel: [17181317.116000] portmap: server localhost not responding, timed out May 22 20:32:37 penguin kernel: [17181317.116000] RPC: failed to contact portmap (errno -5). May ... http://richardfearn.co.uk/2007/05/22/slow-nfs-mount-in-ubuntu-610-edgy-eft/ After installing Windows XP on the VGN-FE31H, the screen brightness keys (Fn-F5 and Fn-F6) no longer work. To make them work again you need to install some of the utilities that ship with the laptop, which are also available in the FE3_Utilities.zip download from the Sony web site. The three utilities ... http://richardfearn.co.uk/2007/04/23/making-the-brightness-keys-work-on-a-vaio-vgn-fe31h/ When using Spring's SimpleFormController, the default behaviour is to pass reference data to the form view, but not to the success view. However it's very easy to override this behaviour, and access the reference data from the success view as well. To do this, override the 4-argument onSubmit method like this: protected ... http://richardfearn.co.uk/2007/03/17/passing-reference-data-to-the-success-view/ By default, MySQL takes advantage of case-sensitive filenames on Linux, with lower_case_file_system = OFF and lower_case_table_names = 0 (i.e. the filesystem is case-sensitive, therefore database names are case sensitive; and table names aren't forced to lower case). In this situation it's possible to have two different databases whose names differ ... http://richardfearn.co.uk/2007/03/12/case-insensitive-constraint-names-in-mysql/ After the introduction of the MySQL Enterprise Server, and the subsequent source-only release of Community Server 5.0.33, there was concern that MySQL would no longer provide official binary builds of the free Community Server. Fortunately, these concerns have now been addressed, but we will have to wait longer for binary ... http://richardfearn.co.uk/2007/02/25/building-mysql-from-source/