user@server:~# less /var/log/apache2/error.log

i) Incomplete MySQL implementation
ii) MySQL setting mis-configuration

Solution:

root@myserver:/# vi /etc/mysql/my.cnf

Comment out the below line in my.cnf file to make MySQL listen on ALL interfaces
#bind-address = 127.0.0.1

root@myserver:/# netstat -tap | grep mysql
tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN 17785/mysqld

Note that above line which indicates MySQL listening on all interfaces.

Solutions:
i) Install the root CA under Trusted Certificate Authority or,
ii) Add an exception to the browser filter not to check certificate revocation or,
iii) Programatically handle the SSL stream when request is made from the server

- Distributed repository system (adaptive work flow models)
- Source control taxonomy: DAG storage
- URI to git directory is where the repository is stored and it always has branches and tags
- Repository root folder contains a .git directory which maintains file history
- Scalability
- Faster, Efficient branching and merging
- License: Copyleft

Subversion (SVN)

- Centralized repository system
- Source control taxonomy: Delta storage
- URI to a subversion depository most commonly adopts /trunks, /branches and /tags directories
- Each folder maintains a .svn directory to store the file history
- Not efficient in scaling
- Not efficient in branching and merging
- License: Copyfree

pdfsam is distributed under GPL license and requires Java Virtual Machine 1.4.2 or higher.

This tools helps you in splitting PDF documents into individual pages, merge many pages into a single document, extract odd/even pages and many other features in its basic version.

To learn more about this tool or to download a copy of it visit pdfsam.org

I have added this in the blog to help a newbie land in a page that is easy to follow. The steps cover

i) Adding rpmforge
ii) Adding adobe repo
iii) Installation command to install libraries, flash plugin and other streaming medias
iv) MPlayer codec installation

The above error message basically means that eth0 i.e your network interface card is not setup correctly.

Some of the commands that can come handy in troubleshooting where the error lies are listed below

$ dmesg | grep eth0
(displays information about the ethernet controller card, mac address etc.)

$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network(displays the network settings)
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
GATEWAY=192.168.122.1

$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfp-eth0

$ ifconfig eth0 down (to down the nic)
$ ifconfig eth0 up (to start the nic)
$ netstat -rn (display kernel routing IP table)
$ cat ifcfg-eth0 (eth0 configuration settings)
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
HWADDR=00:16:18:33:B3:CF
ONBOOT=yes

$ service network restart (restart the network settings)

$ ping -c4 google.ca(to check if the internet connection works)

$ traceroute google.ca (to check how the IP navigation path is set)

Refer Red Hat linux 5 configure network article for additional info

Depending on the request made, server responds back with specific details which can range from browser specific css layout to calling certain javascriptsfor certain browsers.

Changing the user-agent also helps us in understanding how spider-agents or bots will see the pages that we build. It also helps us design applications that will mimic a request as originating from a mobile phone and helps us in viewing the behavior of the application in different mobile clients.

To read more about HTTP-Headers check ietf

Notes for a beginner …
* VMWare Player and VMWare Server are available for free
* A .vmdk file is the virtual hard drive for the guest OS
* A .nvram file stores the BIOS settings of the virtual machine
* A .vmx file stores the configuration settings for the virtual machine. All you
need is a text editor to edit the VMWare configuration settings.
* A .vmsd file stores information about VMWare snapshots.

Some links to get you started in the VMWare’s Virtual World

VMWare Player Download

.vmx creation utilities

EasyVMX (to create virtual machine settings that run on VMWare Player)
VMBuilder

Virtual Machines using VMWare Player – Blogs

Easy to follow Blog on creating virtual machines using .iso image

Create a windows XP virtual machine

Virtual machine repository (Linux distributions)

Linux source

VMWare’s Appliances Listing (There is more to the virtual world than OS)

Setting up a Virtual Private Networks is as easy as clicking through the buttons. Check out this product at LogMeIn