I finally made it! Regarding my previous post about failing to pilot processes on Windows, I searched again and finally found a solution. [EDIT] I have bundled the solution I explain in this article in…
I have always tried to be a polyglot programmer, and also poly-platform one. I have always cherished the idea my softwares could run on any OS. My main development environments for most of my Ruby…
Hi My second headache for today was brought by GIT. I have a simple Apache server providing a restricted access (basic HTTP authentication) on a GIT repository. From my local terminal, I just wanted to…
I almost spent 10 minutes trying to figure out a title for this post, as the problem I stumbled upon today is not easy to describe 😉 In a basic Apache environment, I have a…
Lately I just ran into heavy spamming among all my MediaWiki’s wikis. It first began with plain anonymous spamming (I wanted to leave anonymous editing available), then I forced account creation, then spammers were automating…
I recently reinstalled Cygwin 1.7.9-1 on a Windows7 Ultimate edition (64bits), and like many many people, I ran into the problems of randomly thrown exceptions by xterm and alike processes. For example when starting xterm:…
Hi Some of my servers are hosted on Planethoster (shared environment). So far it has been a nice experience, except that their customer support’s technical competencies can vary a lot depending on who gets to…
Hi Some context might help: You have an Apache running environment, on which you are not root (therefore no access to the global Apache config). Typically the kind of hosted shared environment. You have full…
So here it is: my first post on this blog. Usually it comes down to “Test Title” and “Test Content“. I will try to make it more interesting by introducing the purpose of this blog…