Latest articles under System Admin category

PHP on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

This article will focus on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. I have no access to earlier versions of Mac OS X, so I’m afraid I can’t help you much more than providing this link.
There are many ways to enable MAMP (Mac Apache MySQL PHP) stack, but the best way, I think, is to use [...]

Posted on May 2nd, 2009 under MacOS X  •  No Comments

Mac Yellow Minimize Button Grayed Out

There’s one annoying problems with my Mac laptop. When I’m at work, I connect to external monitor and work on both built-in monitor on my laptop and the external monitor. When I go home I unplug the external monitor, close the lid and let the laptop goes to sleep. Once in a while, when I [...]

Posted on March 25th, 2009 under MacOS X  •  4 Comments

Layman’s understanding of Networking & UDP/TCP/IP

In this article, I’d like to explain, in layman terms, how computer networking works, in particular TCP/IP — the protocol that’s used on the internet. It will cover internet addressing, domain names, and ports. Hopefully by the end of reading this article, you’ll be able to understand better about how information transfers among computers. On [...]

Posted on February 4th, 2009 under Networking  •  3 Comments

Customizing grep tool to exclude svn.

I mostly do programming by SSH-ing to development server. The code I’m working on are often managed by using SVN. There are many occasions when I need to search all source code to find a particular string. If you’ve worked on a source code that’s managed by SVN before, you’ll pretty soon notice that there [...]

Posted on February 4th, 2009 under General Unix, Quick Tips  •  No Comments

Analyzing data in Unix using PHP CLI.

There are times when I need to quickly gather some quick data in a simple tab based or space based delimited file, most often log files. Also, the files that I work on are often huge, well according to my standard at least … about 1GB. The data that I need is often simple statistics [...]

Posted on February 4th, 2009 under General Unix, PHP  •  No Comments

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