Ruby/Qt: qtruby4.rb:2144: [BUG] [x86_64-linux]

You are working with Ruby and Qt and you get the following error: /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/Qt/qtruby4.rb:2144: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03) [x86_64-linux] This is usually caused by a library linking problem. Most likely you are using: require ‘Qt’ Personally, I run into this problem when using Ruby/Qt on Novell OpenSUSE 11 64bit (x86_64 / AMD64).  What …

HowTo WhiteList Proxy for School Using Squid on OpenSUSE Linux 11

Overview I am the technology coordinator for a small, private K12 school in rural Upstate New York.  One of our challenges is filtering Internet access so that the students may have access to the Internet as much as possible while not requiring constant, direct supervision. To meet these needs we decided that we were limited …

Updating Zimbra on Linux

Having been a Zimbra Administrator for some time and having always worked on the Zimbra Open Source platform I have found that documentation on the update process has been very much lacking.  The process is actually quite simple and straightforward under most circumstances but for someone without direct experience with the process it can be …

Installing Fedora 9 Linux in VirtualPC

If you are using Microsoft’s VirtualPC 2007 as a host for installing Red Hat’s Fedora 9 Linux (aka Sulphur) distribution you may have run into a few problems.  The first problem that plagues just about anyone attempting to install the latest versions of Linux (not just Fedora) is that of auto-detected virtualization.  To overcome this …

Dual Head OpenSUSE 11 on the HP dx5150

One of my favourite workhorse platforms is the Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq dx5150 desktop with the AMD Athlon64 processor and ATI Radeon Xpress 200 chipset. I’ve used this model for many years with a variety of operating systems. I recently installed Novell’s OpenSUSE 11 to one of my dx5150 units to which I have attached two …