PDFreaders.org is the latest project from “The Fellowship of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE)”. PDF have become a standard when it comes to distributing documents today. From eBooks to magazines and brochures, nothing is spared from going PDF. The fellowship is out to promote open standards for the PDF format. Open standard allows everyone to access PDF files on any device or OS and not be held back by the propitiatory mambo jumbo. ...
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Been getting this error “Download failed.: Operation timed out after 30 seconds” every time I try to update a plug-in in my WordPress 2.7. After some digging around I found that my web server’s download speed was pretty low. WP 2.7 by default has a 30 second timeout set for it’s download function which I constantly kept hitting. The workaround’s a simple hack to the file.php file in the /wp-admin/includes/ folder. ...
Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference by Keir Thomas. Here’s a good book for Ubuntu users and those thinking of switching over to Ubuntu. The book’s 194 pages long and covers; Installing Ubuntu Configuring Ubuntu Getting to grips with the desktop Users and the filesystem Hands-on at the command-line Software management Securing the system The printed edition is priced at USD9.94 on Amazon and the ebook version is 100% free. Once you have the eBook you are allowed to redistribute it anyway you choose. Just make sure it remains 100% free. The FOSS way!! ...
Had a weird memory error my Linux servers at work today. These were heavy duty machines running heavy jobs throughout the day. /var/log/messages kept reporting that the kernel had no more memory to process new jobs. Most of the errors read " cannot allocate memory " Some digging around later we found the fix. Kernel 2.6 has a new parameter “min_free_kbytes” which allows it to reserve a dedicated amount of memory for itself to process jobs. This kept the kernel from choking up when the servers were faced with sudden spikes in heavy jobs. ...