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Entries from October 21st, 2009

SysAdmin Tool of the Week: Update-Scout

October 21st, 2009 · No Comments · software / tools

Ok, we will start with this new section on our blog, the “SysAdmin Tool of the Week”, to feature cool and useful tools used by Promet systems administrators. This will include websites, software/applications, and hardware as well. For our Sysadmin Tool of the Week it is Update Scout. This site notifies you for updates or [...]

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php 5.2.9 on RHEL5.x (for Drupal 6)

October 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · drupal, HowTo, Installation

Latest version of PHP available for RHEL5.x is 5.1.6 and no new RedHat releases are coming as packaging has ceased. You can get PHP 5.3 for RHEL5 from Remi, but it it’s incompatible with latest versions of Drupal, Civicrm or many modules so we need the a 5.2X branch of PHP. This requires building php [...]

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Apple sold 3.1 million Macs in the last three months, 17% more than a year ago

October 21st, 2009 · No Comments · desktop

I thought that at least 10% of our readers would appreciate this information – or at least be already aware of it.  For a more details and a full story – you can check out the apple.com investors section or the WSJ article. Why 10%?  According to our analytics here is our visitors operating system [...]

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