Archive for February, 2006

February 21, 2006

No respect

February 21st 2006 Posted to Uncategorized

-My hacker won’t call me by my title, and doesn’t seem to respect me at all.
-Your hacker doesn’t respect your title. Hackers don’t believe that management is “above” engineering; they believe that management is doing one job, and engineering is doing another. They may well frequently talk as if management is beneath them, but this is really quite fair; your question implies that you talk as if engineering is beneath you. Treat your hacker as an equal, and she will probably treat you as an equal — quite a compliment!

From the “Social Issues” section in The Hacker FAQ.

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February 8, 2006

Dadamail inappropriate ioctl for device

February 08th 2006 Posted to Uncategorized

I’m sure I’ve posted about this before, but I got the following 500 Internal Server Error on both Angela Day and FutureChurch: “inappropriate ioctl for device”

It means that when Dada was initially set up, DB_File was not available so the config created the database using GDBM_File. The site was running happily until DB_File was installed. This line caused it to assume the database was DB_File instead of GDBM_File – which it’s not.

So in DADA/config.pm around line 3095, change

BEGIN { @AnyDBM_File::ISA = qw(DB_File GDBM_File NDBM_File ODBM_File SDBM_File) }

to be

BEGIN { @AnyDBM_File::ISA = qw(GDBM_File NDBM_File ODBM_File SDBM_File) }

(removing DB_File) and now all is well.

Thanks to the Mojo forums for this one.

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