Karanbir Singh - Thinkability

Firstly, CentOS is super popular out there with the ruby guys and there are quite a few ruby based apps deployed on CentOS these days. Secondly, every man - his dog - and kitchen sink seem to be building ruby rpms. Not apps or gems or anything, but Ru… more »

People who have been following the centos-devel list would have noticed a ressurection of the CnetOS website Ver2 effort[1]. Which is a great sign, however, the intensity and the enthusiasm shown is about at par with the efforts that went into creating t… more »

Trying to pull from a remote repo, just ran into this strange error being reported by gitosis. ERROR:gitosis.serve.main:Arguments to command look dangerous And in typical gitosis ways, its down to trawling the sources to workout what the problem… more »

Should open source projects, not focused on source or code at all but more on a service or a resource, really be called 'open source' projects ? I feel there might be a need to define the idea of an 'open service' or an 'open resource' project.- KB more »

if you insert data using server side metadata like now(), there is a very high possibility that the replica you have running will not get the same information. more »

Hi Guys, A few days back I announced that there will be a 'week of rpm-metadata' hacks, starting from today. With great regret I haveto now announce that this must be postponed for a few weeks. Things are going to be extremely hectic for the next two… more »

Given the recent developments on the opensolaris front, there is again the issue of what OS do people run on their existing sparc hardware ? And I wonder if now is a good time to consider bringing up the CentOS on Sparc conversations again.I have s… more »

A few days back I blog'd about my .screenrc and what it could do etc, something to get people interested in screen and start using it. But in order to really use 'screen' properly, dont forget the 'screen -xRR' in your .bash_profile. That will make sur… more »

I've been looking into the idea of collaborative mind mapping. Think wiki, but in a mind map. The aim being to create a knowledge pool around some very specific areas, that multiple people could contribute into. Specially areas where there might be a lot… more »

I totally subscribe to the idea of email being a fantastic communication tool, way better than anything the web has put out as yet, and because its async and works with priority tagging its automatically better than any form of synchronous communication.… more »

Running dstat normally gives you something like this :# dstat --nocolor----total-cpu-usage---- -dsk/total- -net/total- ---paging-- ---system--usr sys idl wai hiq siq| read writ| recv send| in out | int csw 3 0 97 0 0 0| 820k… more »

If you need to remove large amounts of data from a table ( specially when you need to remove *all* the data in a table), remember its faster to drop the table, and recreate it rather than doing a 'delete from tablename;'.eg: this is against a postgre… more »

# rpm --qf "%{name}.%{arch}\n" -qp hpacucli-8.0-14.noarch.rpm hpacucli.i386 # rpm -qpi hpacucli-8.0-14.noarch.rpm Name : hpacucli Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 8.0 Vendor: HP… more »

Do not try this at home. Just use 'sed' to change data stored inside a running mysql db. And it worked too. Saw the change data come through within a few seconds. Wonder what the internal mysql process did when it realised that data on the filesystem… more »

This via Graham: If you havent seen the original Erlang movie, you need to! - KB more »

I looked and found nothing for this, so wrote this quick fact for puppet. # centos_version.rb Facter.add("centos_version") do setcode do %x{/bin/rpm --qf "%{version}\n" -q centos-release}.chomp end end Once its in your facts/ you can… more »

I've just been looking at Thunderbird 3.0Alpha and it cant sent email when smtp login is required and 'secure authentication' is selected... wtf! Many people will jump and point out that smtp isnt meant to be a secure transport, however since pretty… more »

So, following up on my last blog post about editing text areas using an external editor I remembered that in the past there used to be an addon that could do view source in external editors / viewers and checking again, it seems that you can now edit tex… more »

Everyone has an editor of choice, and when it comes to editing text areas, like wiki content or even just generic contact forms and doing posts in forums or blogs its quite irritating to not get access to that editor. The only way to get access to tha… more »

If you ever get stuck in a situation like this, when anything you do with rpm reports errors in the Lock table, or in the database. eg: rpmdb: Lock table is out of available locker entries error: db4 error(22) from db->close: Invalid argument Tha… more »

In case anyone is interested in getting beryl / compiz going on CentOS-5 with an nVidia graphics card - here is the xorg.conf that I am using. The beryl packages are from centos.karan.org CentOS-5-Testing repo. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier… more »

How many different scm repo's did you commit into today ? Here is my list for July the 9th, 2007. cvs ( yay! ) subversion Mercurial Git Perforce -- Karanbir Singh { http://www.karan.org/ } more »

Hi Guys, There seems to be a rumour going around that there will be no CentOS-5/Beta. I just want to state this officially that the rumour is wrong! There will most certainly be a Beta and even a Release Candidate before the Final is released. Anot… more »

Just finished installing the first distro tree for what will become CentOS 5 x86_64. And I have to say this - it rocks! There are a lot of new features that are going to be loved by everyone out there. But first, a few words about what is going on.Ra… more »

Folkz, is it just me, or is it slightly odd that the OTRS website [http://otrs.org/] uses bugzilla as their own ticking system ? [ref: http://bugs.otrs.org/index.cgi] Looks like someone needs to go have a word with their product branding people.… more »