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Archive for February 2006

How to use RPMs

Some info on using RPMs, from some questions I asked fellow ibiblian Jon Mills: pardom my enduring systems ignorance — where does one get rpms? i know that projects distribute them themselves… were some or all of the ones you installed provided by red hat? RPMS are voodoo. No, redhat provided none of the rpms [...]

Effortlessy switching between php4 and php5 for web development

I want to test my software on both php4 and php5 quickly and easily. Here’s the solution I came up with. First, take out everything regarding php out of your main apache config. LoadModule phpX_module …, AddModule mod_phpX.c, and anything else. Next, make three files in the same directory as your apache config (/etc/httpd/ on [...]

claimID Public Beta

For the past several months my friend and collegue Fred Stutzman has been working on creating a new web service, claimID. On Friday, the public beta will begin. You can sign up for an invitation on the front page.

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