January 10, 2012
Problem: When you use PuTTY to SSH to a RHEL machine, you get an “Access denied” error displayed before the prompt for your password. Solution: Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and set GSSAPIAuthentication no Then /etc/init.d/sshd restart
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December 14, 2011
Sometimes the hardest part of improving your productivity is being able to notice that you’re doing something sub-optimal multiple times each day. I was sitting hacking on some documents this morning when I realized that I frequently follow this usage pattern: Locate a file, using the locate command—often a Linux configuration file of some sort. [...]
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October 27, 2011
Via careful use of nroff directives and comments, it’s possible to make a Ruby script that works both as a command line utility you can run, and as a man page. It’s a floor wax and a dessert topping. This is handy, as it means you can distribute both the utility and the documentation in [...]
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October 25, 2011
Things that make me happy about Notes 8.5.3: I can export my database designs to plain files, and put them in Git for version control. I can grep all my source code with ack. The built-in editor will let me see all the code for a design object in one window. Hover-over display of documentation [...]
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October 21, 2011
Would you like to edit Domino databases as plain old HTML, CSS and XML, and keep them in version control? Find out how.
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October 21, 2011
Recent versions of IBM Lotus Domino have included updates to the On-Disk Structure (ODS), the file format of Notes and Domino databases. However, if you have local replicas, they will not automatically be upgraded to the newer formats. In fact, even newly-created local replicas aren’t created in the new formats by default. To fix this, [...]
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September 19, 2011
Using NotesViewEntryCollection to iterate through NotesViewEntry objects? You shouldn’t be. Here’s the new way to do it…
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September 19, 2011
A quick FYI: IBM DB2 9.7 isn’t compatible with DB2 9.5 or 9.1 servers by default. The symptoms of the incompatibility are that some (but not all) queries result in an error which looks like: SQL0805N Package “NULLID.SQLC2H21 0X4141414141504161″ was not found. The solution is that the servers must be made compatible with the newer [...]
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July 19, 2011
How to get your IBM Lotus Domino server to send its logs to syslog.
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July 1, 2011
I think this may be the best JavaScript error I’ve ever been given: Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object [...]
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