The latest Cygwin mutt release (1.5.20-1) deviates a bit from standard mutt. After attempting for a bit to get standard mutt to compile and run stable on a Win7 64-bit Cygwin install, I gave up. There is a bad memory leak causing mutt to spiral out of control when calling mmap/mmap64. It appears the Cygwin…
Continue reading →I did a bit of work on integrating mutt and ics invites with google calendar using a python script found here at ub3rgeek.net. The google calendar apis are really easy to use and the gdata python library is excellent. The original script auto-accepted the invite and uploaded it to google calendar when viewed in mutt….
Continue reading →I wanted to convert one of our production machines from Fedora to Ubuntu server. One of the services this machine was running was subversion. I both tarred up the repository directory and used ‘svnadmin dump’ to backup the repository. I scp’ed both files to another server. Upon recovery I wanted to use the dump but…
Continue reading →After updating WordPress and my devformatter plugin, I noticed some errors popping up from the geshi libraries: [22-Oct-2009 14:00:12] PHP Warning: array_keys() [function.array-keys]: The first argument should be an array in ***/geshi.php on line 3502 [22-Oct-2009 14:00:12] PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in ***/geshi.php on line 3502 This was actually displaying in the…
Continue reading →After a recent windows update I found my remote desktop was broken. I did some troubleshooting and packet sniffing and still couldn’t track the problem down. Finally I stumbled upon this post, which fixed my problem. It turned out that an nvidia driver update broke RDP. Updating the driver to the latest WHQL fixed the…
Continue reading →I recently needed to setup TLS for my company’s email server. My primary goal was to reconfigure our sendmail server to negotiate TLS with other email servers that supported it. This would allow us to send secure information via email to companies that also supported email over TLS. The first step was to generate certificates….
Continue reading →I recently upgraded my bugzilla installation to 3.5 to find my Eclipse-mylyn integration had broken. After some traffic inspection and a look at buglist.cgi, I found that new code was added to “clean” advanced bug queries. This code cleans the query, then performs a redirect to the new clean query using the correct bugzilla hostname…
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