Archive for June 26th, 2008

Apt for RPM

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

As a big fan of apt, I was happy to see this post by Dag Wieers on Using apt in an RPM world. Excellent stuff. Should setup some trial machine somewhere to check it out. O no, I was going to install Spacewalk to do all the sysadmin stuff. Hmm, ...

PHP timeout

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

We learn everyday. Just found out that there's a function in PHP to set the maximum execution time of script: set_time_limit(int $seconds).According to the docs: The default limit is 30 seconds or, if it exists, the max_execution_time value defined in the php.ini

Spacewalk

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

The eagle has landed. RedHat released their Satellite product to the upstream open source community under the name Spacewalk. I think Spacewalk can be a great addition to our companies infrastructure. I will include it in my structure improvement proposal. If using Spacewalk, nice things become possible like kickstart, software ...