Category Archives: Technology

ps on Solaris cut at 80 chars, no longer…

Posted on May 1, 2011 by pctony

If like me you always forget that Solaris will trim the output of the command in ps to 80 chars, you will know just how annoying it can be.  Well I finally found a half decent way of seeing the … Continue reading →

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Ever wondered what 1 million svn log entries looks like?

Posted on September 23, 2010 by pctony

Well. wonder no longer. Yesterday, the main ASF SVN code repository passed the 1 million commit mark.  Shortly thereafter one of the ASF members enquired as to how he could best grab the svn log entries for all of these … Continue reading →

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Postfix + SASL + Dovecot

Posted on June 10, 2009 by pctony

After trying to find a way to make my postfix installation allow authenticated users (over TLS will come later) relay mail using SASL, on a CentOS machine using only CentOS packages I discovered it was not as easy as I … Continue reading →

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LDAP @The ASF — Update

Posted on March 26, 2009 by pctony

Today at Apachecon Europe 2009 I managed to get full multi-master LDAP replication working for the ASF. So in the near future we will start using LDAP for authentication.  This will include access to shell accounts, and Subversion.  However additional … Continue reading →

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LDAP @The ASF

Posted on March 23, 2009 by pctony

So, today I will be rolling out LDAP on the first of what will hopefully be our new LDAP infrastructure. So cross your fingers.

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9hrs between charges

Posted on March 12, 2009 by pctony

I thought I would add a little piece on the battery life of my new MacBook Pro, there are a lot of misleading and conflicting articles on the internet regarding the new battery in this awesome machine. So I thought, … Continue reading →

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