Fix for s9y 1.3.1 entry's links plugin + postgreSQL 8.1

The s9y team did some work on the code, unfortunately some changes break the “entry’s links” plugin, if you are still using postgreSQL 8.1. I patched the serendipity_plugin_entrylinks.php file.

Download my little patch entrylinks patch.

VMware Server, host-only networking and a pinch of promiscuous mode

Today I was playing around with VMware server and two OpenBSD virtual machines that resided on the same vmnet network. I noticed, that vmnet seemed to operate in “switch” mode. I was sending a ping from the host OS to VM1 and VM2 was not able to see the packet. After digging around the web, I found a solution:

1.) create a user group vmadm 2.) add the UID which is used tu run the VMs to this group 3.) change the group ownership of the vmnet interfaces to this group 4.) allow group members to read/write to the vmnet interfaces

e.g on Debian execute (VMs run as UID vmrun, VMs use vmnet1):

addgroup vmadm
adduser vmrun vmadm
chgrp vmnet /dev/vmnet1
chmod g+rw /dev/vmnet1

Hurray, I got myself a new AMD/ATI video card...

… but now I am using it as expensive paperweight. So if you are thinking about buying a 2600 based AGP card, don’t do it.

Here is the story of my (k)nightly quest to get this thing running:

Last week my old x800 based ATI AGP card died and I got myself a new card (HIS IceQ Radeon HD2600XT PRO AGP). Starting with windows I was quite surprised, to notice that the installed ATI catalyst driver did not find any ATI hardware.

Ok, I thought, maybe the driver is too old. So I downloaded the most recent catalyst 8.2. Still enjoying my shiny new hardware toy, I launched up the driver installer. And again I was informed, that the driver did not find any ATI video card. Hmm. I checked the ATI logo on the box, no it said, it’s an ATI card.

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YUCK! I did it!

Finally installed s9y. Stay tuned, actually somethings gonna happen on this site in the next 23274368 years.