force yum to reinstall a package

I had to play recently with the pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7.x86_64.rpm, on one of my CentOS 5.5 64bits test servers. By default, the RPM does not have the Unicode option enabled and I wanted to test some additional features in PHP. In few words, I needed to rebuild the RPM with the –enable-unicode-properties argument.

posterous added to site

I’m really happy with my Palm Pre. It helps me a lot to multitask the real way, unlike other phones who pretend to. On top of that, development for WebOS is a breeze… I definitely plan to release a cool application for my friend Kier and his fresh XenForo software. Andrei is the culprit who made me discover Posterous, this amazing, advertising free service.

number 18

I was a little slow when I got the message from Kier. Yet, I made it to be no. 18 on the member list of the new and exciting xenForo software. I’m looking forward to help Kier as much as I can to make his product a true success.

centos 5.5 upgrade completed

Yesterday I finished the CentOS upgrade for all my test and live servers. I must admit the RPM’s are an essential part of my development work, since I compile myself all web related server software. The upgrade went smooth, no issues with any custom RPM’s, including the Sphinx one.

reset your centos root password

I recently had to deal with a CentOS machine that needed to have the root password changed. When I got to the Grub menu, nothing worked, in order to enable the Edit menu. Changing the keyboard solved the issue, it looks like the p key was broken, heh.