Monthly Archive for September, 2005Page 4 of 7

Plesk autoupdate failure report Inbox

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Here’s a solution for people having an issue with Plesk. On one of my servers I was updating Plesk 7.5.3 to 7.5.4 however I could never update successfully. Here’s the error message I was getting:

Installing php-pgsql-4.3.2-23.ent.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
php = 4.3.2-23.ent is needed by php-pgsql-4.3.2-23.ent
Suggested resolutions:
/php-4.3.2-23.ent.i386.rpm

Here’s my solution…
#cd /root/psa/
#rpm -Uvh –nodeps php-pgsql-4.3.2-23.ent.i386.rpm

Here’s a screen copy of what I did step by step:

[root@myserver rpm]# cd /root/psa/
[root@myserver psa]# ls
PSA_7.5.3 PSA_7.5.4 psa.inf
[root@myserver psa]# cd PSA_7.5.4
[root@myserver PSA_7.5.4]# ls
RHel3_std.updates rpm_RedHat_el3
[root@myserver PSA_7.5.4]# cd RHel3_std.updates/
[root@myserver RHel3_std.updates]# ls
php-pgsql-4.3.2-23.ent.i386.rpm plesk-libstdc++-3_4-3.4.3-2.i586.rpm
plesk-libgcc-3_4-3.4.3-2.i586.rpm
[root@myserver RHel3_std.updates]# rpm -Uvh –nodeps php-pgsql-4.3.2-23.ent.i386.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
1:php-pgsql ########################################### [100%]

Then I went into the Plesk Control Panel, did the ‘updater’ and it worked when I updated my packages.

Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Northern Iowa: Win!

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When: Sat - 09/17/05
Who: Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Northern Iowa
Where: Iowa City, IA
Television: ESPN Plus/ESPNU

Result: Iowa 45, Northern Iowa 21

Read the game recap here

Iowa Hawkeyes vs. Northern Iowa game quotes. The following is from HawkeyeFootball.com

Iowa Coach Kirk Ferentz:

“We showed some improvement today but also showed there is still some improvement needed.

He looked like the old Drew Tate today.

We’re very much still in the developmental stage as a football team. We’re going to have to make a lot of improvement this week.

(On the Ohio State Game) We definitely have our work cut out for us. Over three games we have not showed the consistency we need to have.

(On Damian Sims) Basically his heart’s not into playing defense and you certainly need that to be successful.

(On the run game) It’s going to be real important for us throughout the whole season.”

Northern Iowa Coach Mark Farley:

“I was pleased with our second half offense. Our offense moved the ball against a very good defense. We protected the quarterback well and our receivers caught the ball. Except for the fumbles, I thought our offense did a very good job.

(On the defensive side) it was a combination of what their offense did and what our defense didn’t, or wasn’t able to do. We couldn’t stop the run and that paved the way for their play action.

The reality is we played a very good football team, fell behind, and then came back to our game plan. We know what kind of football team we have now. Defensively, there were a couple of breakdowns for us. But Drew Tate is a good, smart quarterback. He did a good job of seeing what was going to happen when he came to the line of scrimmage.

There’s a lot we can build on offensively, and a lot we can learn from film on defense.”

Visit the Iowa Hawkeye Football site for more Hawkeye news and stats!

The best physics paper ever

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If I’d have been a physics major in college, I have a feeling that this is what my papers would have sounded like. Gotta love science, because the results are just like most studies. Loads of useless crap put together as “results” that don’t mean squat. And we use our taxes to pay for most of them.

How to: tar a file, gzip a file, untar a file

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I thought I’d share incase anybody else runs into the problem and needs to tar or gzip a file on their server.

How to tar and then how to gzip (compress) a file in SSH
When you are logged into SSH this command line should tar and then gzip your folder into a .tar.gz file. This will gzip your file into the current directory:
tar -czf whatever.tar.gz foldername
If you’d like to tar your file and have it put in another location use this:
tar -czf /directory/directory/whatever.tar.gz foldername

How to untar and how to ungzip (or unzip) a file in SSH:
This will untar and uncompress your file, then it will place that folder in the directory you are currently in restoring your old folder and file structure:
gunzip -dc whatever.tar.gz | tar xvf -

Thank you, and good night.

We don’t like to see each other’s wee-wees

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We were talking about how girls like to go to the bathroom together, but guys really don’t. Why?

The main thing we hypothesized was the “buffer” of 30 seconds. We are technically going together, but not because of the buffer. This is how guys are. So there.

How to empty the qmail queue

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To clear *all* messages from the queue, shut down qmail, then:

cd /var/qmail/queue
find intd todo local remote mess info bounce -type f -print |xargs rm

Start qmail back up, and the queue should be empty.

Dude! Seriously dude!

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The word “Dude” is overused. What’s up dude. What are you doing dude? Oh my god dude! DUDE! Etc etc dude. You can hear Joe Rogan say it, you can hear the military dude from the first season of Joe Schmoe say it.

This has been a scientific obersvation dude.

How about “catfight”?

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Was flipping through the radio on my girlfriend’s car tonight (which I never do because I have XM), and on one channel there was this ominous voice talking about The Cagematch! Then they stated the contenders: some stupid pop chick vs. another dumb pop chick.

Huh?

Are they sure they’re using that “cagematch” thing correctly? How about “crapfest”? Wouldn’t that be more appropriate?

How to Make an Egg Go Through a Bottle

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1. Get your bottle, peeled-hard-boiled-egg, and three matches ready.
2. Stand the glass bottle upright with the opening skywards.
3. Light three matches and drop them in the bottle. Wait a second or two.
4. Put the peeled, hard-boiled egg onto the bottle’s opening, wide end down.
5. Wait. After the matches go out, the egg will get sucked into the bottle

Read more tips and why this works right here