This procedure is one I always forget. Many packages don’t have the appropriate install information within, and I frequently have to look up this very simple six-step list of instructions:
tar -xzvf whatver.tar.gz
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
su
make install
Some of the steps are obviously optional, but I prefer to use the careful step-by-step method.
[NOTE: What a boring entry to [...]
Got an email today from Jamaica with the subject line: “Discover and Experience Playmates In Your Area” No, thank you! Had enough experience with Playmates to last a lifetime.
Without naming specific individuals or companies, I am surprised that EVERY client I have had during the past two years who has been billed for at least [...]
At long last, zoho.org is finally within my grasp. Now that it’s moved over to my primary registrar, I’ve been able to update the DNS and migrate the website to the new server. The .org registry must propagate much faster than the .com and .net registries as the DNS and contact information changes were reflected [...]
This is the last chapter in the nine-month-long saga of ItsYourDomain and its holding of my domain name. As of yesterday, it has finally been transferred to GoDaddy.com. Huge, huge sigh of relief.
I urge anyone who is similarly stuck at IYD and is desperately trying to transfer out to contact Nick Starai. As a long-time [...]
In response to my myriad problems with ItsYourDomain and DomainsNext, and my complaints posted here on RR…, I actually received an email from ItsYourDomain last Sunday:
Hello Richard, this is Nick from ItsYourDomain.com. I have been directed to your richards ramblings link on your website through a customer (Sarah Kollar). I have been reading your site [...]
I forgot to mention what American Airlines’ remedy was in regards to the letter I wrote to them last January about the difficulties we had with the Admirals Club in San Jose. At this point I’m not even sure where the response letter is.
The gist of it was that the employee who made the considerable [...]
The unannounced server migration that I started on Monday has not gone as smoothly as I would have liked, but I didn’t really expect it to.
Why the move? Twenty times the storage, five times the bandwidth, less than half the cost. I’ll save myself about $1,000 a year.
So far, the biggest problem has been migrating [...]
