Swapfile for my brain

Finally got tired of messing with pebble, and decided to give wordpress a try.  Much better!  Only problem is that my permalinks have all changed.  Hopefully I’ll figure out a way to map the old permalinks into the new layout - one of the wordpress custom formats gets close, but instead of the leaf being the pebble article id, its the article title - which I do prefer.  I guess I’ll have to add in custom rewrite rules for all the old ones. Anyone else have a better idea?

My employer, TripAdvisor in Needham, MA, is having a hard time finding some good mid-senior level software engineers.

We work mostly in Java running on linux (some engineers develop on OSX) and are looking for people with a passion for software engineering and technology in general.

We have a pretty rigorous interview process, and you will be quizzed on the fundamentals of computer science that most good engineers can rattle off in their sleep, i.e. think along the lines of when to use a linkedlist versus array. We also like to see that people can actually write code to solve a problem, so if you can’t do this in an interview, then no need to apply.

If you are interested and currently living in the US, send me an email at conway at tripadvisor dot com.

I was having a problem with FC4 becase SELinux was enabled and preventing a php webapp in apache from sending email.

The log in /var/log/messages was reporting:

avc:  denied  { write } for  pid=6608 exe=/usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail name=clientmqueue
dev=dm-0 ino=2343033 scontext=user_u:system_r:system_mail_t
tcontext=system_u:object_r:var_spool_t tclass=dir

I didn’t want to disable SELinux as this was a external facing machine, but fortunately I was able to find a fix for this problem here

To summarize, the following command fixed the problem for me.:

rpm -q -l sendmail | /sbin/restorecon -R -f -

For anyone using FC4, it seems that JDK 1.4 is unable to make any network connections due to IPV6 being enabled in the kernel - 1.5.0_03 works fine.

Fortunately, disabling IPV6 seems to fix it (reboot needed).

/etc/modprobe.conf:
# Disable IPV6 to allow java networking to work
alias net-pf-10 off

Well, I finally jumped on the blog bandwagon.  I’ll be using this space to keep track of all the yummy geek goodness I discover, be it cool stuff someone else has done or tricks I have discovered while slaving over my keyboard.