Teaching Resources

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Just a quick plug for a new website I’ve been working on: Teaching Resources and Posters.  You will find fantastic resources for class rooms, child care centres, day care centres and play rooms.


samsung galaxy s with windows 7 64 bit

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Samsung Galaxy S – getting it to work with Windows 7 x64.

After a long night and early morning fighting with windows and USB drivers and reading everything I could find online about this phone, I finally managed to get it working!

The problem is described as: brand new phone, stock firmware from optus, plug it into your PC & the automatic windows driver installation for the USB breaks somewhere and stops everything from working.

At this point I found Kies: Kies_1.5.1.10074_2_6 and installed that – which didn’t help. I also found some USB drivers as mentioned here and installed them – which also didn’t help.

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PPTP connection disconnecting when uploading

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I recently re-built my dev box and I use a PPTP connection to connect to various data centres around the place, when I ran into an issue I experienced a while back where the pptp connection would silently die (using pptpconfig on Centos) when I kick of my rsync. Some research lead me to the problem, which was an ‘oversize’ mtu for my little ADSL connection.

Solution:
sudo nano /etc/ppp/ip-up
Add ifconfig ppp0 mtu 1396 before the last line in the file (above exit 0).


Centos and proftpd 1.3.2a compile with mysql support

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Just a quick reference for everyone, to compile proftpd 1.3.2a with mysql support you need the following:
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centos 5.5, ruby, rails and mongrel

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Everytime I go and build a box I jump on google and spend 20 minutes trying to find the last guide I used, and of course I can’t find it. So I’m putting a few links here so I can just come here and find them easy!

Follow the instructions for a yum repo with updated packages here

Install everything using: sudo yum –enablerepo=ruby install ruby rubygems ruby-mysql
Install mongrel: sudo gem install mongrel_rails