I am a heavy user of Adobe Lightroom. Often, I need to access my Lightoom catalog files using multiple computers. Currently, Lightroom only allows users to save the catalog files on a local hard drive, which is very inconvenient. For example, after I do the work using my office computer, I like to continue my work using my home computer. Unfortunately, it is very hard to synchronize my work with the current settings. I just don’t...

A new version of PHP (5.3.9) was available in FreeBSD today. Since it contained a lot of security fixes and enhancements, I decided to give it a try. After testing the new PHP in couple test servers, I think it is ready to upgrade the PHP on the production server. Oh well, I didn’t expect that I needed to spend my whole lunch break to trouble-shoot this problem. So here is what I did: # cd /usr/ports/lang/php5 # make install ===>...

I got a lot of unused USB thumb drives, CF flash card and SD cards sitting in my drawer. The sizes range from 8MB to 8GB. Unlike few years ago, it is getting a lot easier to access to the Internet, so I no longer need to carry my data via memory device any more. Instead, I simply connect to the Internet and the data is with me. That’s why my USB thumb drivers / CF flash cards / SD cards have been sitting in my drawer for few years. I...

MySQL has a biggest missing feature: It does not sort naturally. This has been an opened request since 2003, and MySQL team has no plan to fix this in a near future. I have looked for a solution to solve this problem for a while. Unfortunately, I found nothing useful. Here is a summary: The + 0 Trick Many developers suggest this solution: SELECT names FROM your_table ORDER BY age + 0 ASC This is not a good solution because it only...

Recently I decide to add more space to my server. For some reasons, the internal hard drives are always more expensive than the external one, even the hard drives are exact the same thing. So I decide to buy an external hard drives first, and disassemble the case and take the hard drive out. I guess Western Digital doesn’t want you to do it, so there is no easy way to open the case. In fact, it is pretty easy to take out the hard...

This tutorial is for FreeBSD 8. If you are looking for the driver for FreeBSD 9, you can forget about it. According to HighPoint, there are no plans to update the RocketRaid 26XX driver to FreeBSD 9. Since it is a binary driver, there are very limited things we can do. FYI, here is the reply from their support team: New Priority: Medium Status: Active -> Awaiting Customer Action Dear customer there are no plans to update the RocketRAID...

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