Archive for April, 2008

Staying online

Monday, April 7th, 2008

When I started this blog, I was determined to update the blog-software (wordpress) on a regular base. A couple of weeks ago I realized that I hadn’t updated this ever yet. Despite that realization, what I was afraid for became true this night. My very outdated version of WP was kind of hacked for sending spam. Now I haven’t fully investigated this yet, but it seems like the commenting function was abused (version 2.0.2).

I moved this site to one of my own servers (that explains the current url, gonna work on that), and tried to upgrade it to 2.5 (the latest version). Unfortunately, the upgrade script delivered with WP2.5 is not capable of making such a big jump at once, so I upgraded from 2.0.2 to 2.2, to 2.3 to 2.5. And as far as I can see, it al functions well (gotta transfer the attachments and stylesheets still).

Installing ZendStudio

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Today I installed a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.04 on my workstation. It’s isn’t much of a deal (as opposed to windows); insert the cd, select ‘install’, and click three times ‘next’. After a couple of minutes, all work is done :D

The software I use the most (together with xchat) is ZendStudio, installing it isn’t that difficult:
w`get http://downloads.zend.com/studio-eclipse/6.0.0/ZendStudioForEclipse-6_0_0.tar.gz
tar xvf ZendStudioForEclipse-6_0_0.tar.gz
./ZendStudioForEclipse-6_0_0.bin

However, an error occured:
#19 /tmp/install.dir.11745/Linux/resource/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so [0xf77b775c]
java: xcb_xlib.c:82: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

All kind of solutions of patching files are described on the internet. The solution I found, is worth mentioning only beecaus of it's simplicity; running it in silent mode (which is a cli verbose mode)
./ZendStudioForEclipse-6_0_0.bin -i silent