Raise or Lower Email Message Size Limit
by rsherer on May.09, 2012, under Server Configuration
The other day I was trying to send an email that was about 200 MB and needed to actually send it via email (not sure why they wanted me to, but it was required). To change this, please note I’ve only tested this with cPanel using Exim. Log into your server as root via SSH. [...]
How to get rid of the annoying “Briefly unavailable for scheduled maintenance” message after doing automatic upgrade?
by rsherer on Apr.16, 2012, under Wordpress
Teehee. Did you hit upgrade or update on your blog or plugins, then refresh the page before it was done? You should have just waited, you get to delete a file now cause you were impatient. Log into your account via SSH or FTP, and go to the document root of your blog (Don’t ask [...]
TSA and Bruce Schneier
by rsherer on Mar.27, 2012, under Rants
Yea.. Mr. Bruce Schneier was asked to testify before Congress about TSA’s “security screening initiatives… Once the agency complained however, it became “formally uninvited”. sigh… “On Friday, at the request of the TSA, I was removed from the witness list,” Schneier wrote on his blog. “The excuse was that I am involved in a lawsuit [...]
What is Ruby on Rails?
by rsherer on Mar.27, 2012, under Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Well first off, Ruby on Rails (often just referred to as RoR, or even just rails) is made up of two technologies — Rails and Ruby. Those are super important as they are both so powerful. Ruby is a programming language, more importantly, it is an Object Oriented Pogramming Language and is fairly new compared [...]
The folder temporary data could not be created.
by rsherer on Feb.13, 2012, under Mac Games
Trying to install WoW on your Mac and seeing this error? Sorry, the installer was unable to start up. The folder “” could not be created. There are some steps you should take to fix this – please do them in order: 1. Delete the Blizzard directory from Users/Share/ 2. If that didn’t work – [...]
FTP Connection Test
by rsherer on Feb.13, 2012, under perl, Programming & Scripting
I wrote this quick little FTP connection tester while teaching someone some perl basics. Feel free to use it yourself. # cat ./ftptest #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; # This script will allow you to test an FTP connection use Net::FTP; my $host = $ARGV[0]; my $user = $ARGV[1]; my $pass = $ARGV[2]; my [...]
Uninstall Rails 3
by rsherer on Feb.13, 2012, under Programming & Scripting, Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Are you using cPanel and accidentally installed Rails 3.x ? Well, if you want to remove it… you can’t just run this: gem uninstall rails v=3.2.1 You need to run this, to get all it’s dependencies: gem uninstall actionmailer actionpack activerecord activesupport activeresource rails -v=3.2.1
Could not find rails
by rsherer on Feb.13, 2012, under Programming & Scripting, Ruby on Rails (RoR)
Run across this? # script/generate /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/dependency.rb:247:in `to_specs’: Could not find rails (= 2.3.14) amongst [actionmailer-2.3.14, actionpack-2.3.14, activerecord-2.3.14, activeresource-2.3.14, activesupport-2.3.14, cgi_multipart_eof_fix-2.5.0, daemon_controller-1.0.0, daemons-1.1.6, fastthread-1.0.7, gem_plugin-0.2.3, passenger-3.0.11, rack-1.4.1, rack-1.1.3, rack-protection-1.2.0, rake-0.9.2.2, rubygems-update-1.8.15, sinatra-1.3.2, sqlite3-1.3.5, tilt-1.3.3] (Gem::LoadError) Run this: gem install rails v=2.3.14 You do not have to specify the version of rails, though I recommend figuring out [...]
Superbowl 2012
by rsherer on Feb.06, 2012, under Rants
I know many of you are going to be with me, yet some against me of course… If you watched the superbowl this year (2012) then you probably wondered why on earth no-one on the Pats could catch the ball. Yes, this was one of the best games I have ever seen, but what the [...]