Large File Support in Samba
To enabled large file support (>2gb) in smbmount, you have to pass ‘-o lfs’ on the command line. Why this isn’t the default, I’m not quite sure. I think it is with smbclient, but it has to be...
View ArticleMirroring a subversion repository
Some tools like Trac require a local copy of your Subversion repository (this requirement might be fixed in a newer version of Trac I guess, but for now it’s an example). If your server is running...
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Server Upgrade
My blog has migrated to a server with a new IP address (this is being served off the new server). I had to upgrade WordPress too, which means I now have shiny new 2.5.1. Go me!
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TECH4FRICA – A web and emerging technology conference for Africa.
It’s happening on October 3rd, 4th 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa. So what’s the big idea? Well we’re convinced that there will be web and technology growth in Africa, so we’re getting together...
View ArticleGoogle App Engine memcache keys
This only works on the development web server, but it enables you to see what the keys of the memcache are. Paste it into the Interactive Console (part of the Development Console) for instant...
View ArticleConnecting to .Net 3.0/Soap1.2/WS-*/svc/WCF services from legacy .Net...
Use BasicHttpBinding: The BasicHttpBinding uses HTTP as the transport for sending SOAP 1.1 messages. A service can use this binding to expose endpoints that conform to WS-I BP 1.1, such as those that...
View ArticleI call dibs on noticing GTalk/Yahoo integration first
This XML was recently caught exposing a bug in xmpp.py: <presence type="unavailable" from="user@gmail.com/resource" to="yahoo.transport" xmlns:ses="yahoogoogle:session" ses:terminated="true"/>...
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blog.unpickle()
It’s been a while, a long while. This post is a summary of my professional, spiritual, nutritional and personal life over the last 2 and a bit years. The last serious set of blogging I did was about...
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Fresh water from the Newlands Spring
Inspired by Raw Model and Daniel Vitalis, I took some pictures of our local spring that we’ve been collecting water from over the last few months. We go about every two weeks, unless we’re making Raw...
View ArticleUS centric AltGr keyboard layout
For those using a typical US keyboard layout, but with the need to use the Euro sign. I used the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator to make a copy of the US-International keyboard and remove all the...
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