Month: May 2010

  • Q&A Site covering Religion and Philosophy

    I have now been hosting a Q&A site covering 2 of my favorite topics: Religion and Philosophy. Link: bayankaram.com. The name “bayankaram” refers to the legendary Sri Prativadi Bhayankaram Annan Swami who composed Suprabhatham.

  • Wireless connection dropouts in Lucid Lynx

    Since my upgrade to Lucid, I have been experiencing dropouts on my wireless connection and since the solutions that I had found on the net did not solve the above problem, I decide to script a temporary fix until it gets fixed in (K)Ubuntu or in the Kernel. I found that that after I get…

  • DNS Zone File Serial

    Today, I came across this error while checking a DNS Zone file for error (I was trying to script the syntax check of a zone file before deploying it onto our production servers): named-checkzone example.com example.com.zone dns_rdata_fromtext: example.com.zone:3: near ‘201005051010’: out of range zone example.com/IN: loading from master file example.com.zone failed: out of range And,…

  • Lucid Lynx — Downgrading from PHP 5.3

    I hit this bug after the upgrade to PHP 5.3 (which happened with my Kubuntu Upgrade to Lucid Lynx). I read in another bug report that this issue was fixed in the latest snaphshot, so I tried compiling from source – using the latest 5.3 snapshot. This didn’t go well, as I hit a seg…