Category: Tech Talk

  • Insights to future workplace from Fujitsu Forum 2012

    Insights to future workplace from Fujitsu Forum 2012

    This year my Autumn holiday was a bit different as I was one of the four bloggers who were invited by Fujitsu’s LIFEBOOK4Life campaign to visit Fujitsu Forum 2012 in Munich to hear about how the future workplace might look like and to experience new technologies to support that. We also got a tour at…

  • Fujitsu Forum 2012 has insights for the future of IT

    Fujitsu Forum 2012 has insights for the future of IT

    Germany is known for it’s technology expos like CeBIT but for more detailed and in depth view about the state of information technology you might want to go to Fujitsu Forum like I did a year ago invited by LIFEBOOK4Life. This year it’s held November 7th and 8th at the ICM in Munich and enables…

  • LIFEBOOK4Life Ultra Test Flight adventure starts

    LIFEBOOK4Life Ultra Test Flight adventure starts

    Fujitsu’s LIFEBOOK4Life is here again with “Ultra Test Flight” and new challenges for Insiders. This year it’s about Ultrabooks and the Autumn will be full of interesting tasks to fulfill. In the end if successful the Insiders can keep their Ultrabooks, be it U772 or U572. Last year I took part in Fujitsu’s “LIFEBOOK4Life: Accept…

  • WordPress and problem with language files (.mo)

    While testing the upcoming WordPress 2.3 I noticed that I had a problem with he localization. Defining the language with WPLANG had no effects and all the text were in English as they should have been in Finnish. I installed another instance of WordPress 2.2.3 and the problem was still there.… Jatka lukemista →

  • Apache can't start after updating expat to 2.0.1

    After updating to expat-2.0.1, it tells you to run revdep-rebuild -X –library=libexpat.so.0 but even after that apache2 couldn’t be started. It says that /usr/sbin/apache2 can’t find shared library libexpat.so.0. After some googling I found a message in Google Groups which deals with the problem. The problem is that /usr/lib/libaprutil-0.so.0.9.12 which belongs to apr-util is still…

  • Quick Howto: Setting up SNMP and MRTG

    This article might be a bit outdated on some parts but just Google if problems arise. SNMP and MRTG graphs Statistics and graphs are nice way to follow what the machine is doing. Just a little bit of configuration and scripts you can use f. ex. servers’, routers’ and firewalls’ operational statistical data from their…

  • Tuning Apache, PHP and MySQL

    Normally putting up a web server with PHP and database is easy and the default settings are enough but sometimes there is need for tuning the performance. The server might be low on memory and the CPU and has (too) many things to handle. Also it is good to know how things work.… Jatka lukemista…

  • Syslog-ng and connections exceeded error

    Couple of days ago I updated my home Gentoo box and after that syslog-ng was too full of connections. As always the remedy was near. If you have app-admin/syslog-ng-2.0.4 and get errors like syslog-ng[8827]: Number of allowed concurrent connections exceeded; num=’10’, max=’10’ to the syslog then read this helpfull topic from Gentoo forums.… Jatka lukemista…