Remove Extraneous RedHat Services to Help Secure Servers

Protect your computer against bad guys.

Using MySQL Administrator Over a Secure (ssh) Connection

MySQL Administrator is not designed to work over a secure connection like ssh. By using ssh tunneling, you can connect to your remote MySQL servers from your workstation.
MySQL Tools
Download the MySQL Tools package.
Install the MySQL Tools package. On the Mac, just drag to Applications.
Create the Tunnel
To create the tunnel, open a shell (Terminal on the [...]

WordPress TV

WordPress has unleashed its video tutorial site, WordPress.tv. You can find all kinds of helpful videos from basic tutorials to WordCamp conference sessions.

New Look

The site is sporting a new look. I hope it’s also easier for people to use.

Fix for “Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! error” in WP-Postviews

I installed the WP-Postview plugin for WordPress. Everything was fine until it encountered Japanese. Then it barfed repeatedly with “Warning: Cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()!”.
To work around this problem, I found some great notes on SearchMarked.com.
Edit the wp-postviews.php file, replacing

$text = html_entity_decode($text, ENT_QUOTES, get_option(‘blog_charset’));

with

$text = utf8_decode($text);

Configuring Apache for WordPress

What the Apache config file needs to server up WordPress blogs.

Upgrading Subversion on OS X

The default Subversion on the Mac is 1.4. How to upgrade to 1.5.

Installing PowerDNS

There are notes on installing PowerDNS on a CentOS 5 server. This is generic enough that it aught to work on any RPM based Linux distro with yum installed.

Upgrading Zimbra 4.5.10 to 5.0.11

There are my running notes for upgrading a Zimbra 4.5.10 server to the latest Zimbra 5.0.11.

Workaround for FreeMind OutOfMemory Exception (Mac OS X)

FreeMind on OS X has not been working. Rather, it’s been giving me an out of memory exception. Here is a workaround.