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If your vsftpd server running CentOS 5 (on a small ec2 instance) is giving you a “ftp error 500 OOPS: vsf_sysutil_recv_peek” error, try loading capability mode woth the following command:


modprobe capability

Tags: active, ec2, ftp, mode, modprobe, passive, pasv, server
Categories: Operating Systems, Software
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Our Bookmarks: Mar 09 – Mar 15

Monday, March 16th, 2009 by The BCM Team

The Week That Was In Links

Development & Production

Intuitive Innovation Means Marketing by Aza Raskin
Similarities Between Interaction Designers & Agile Programmers by InfoQ
How To Be A Program Manager by Joel On Software
The Evolution Of Coding by Faster Future

Promotion & Distribution

Desire Paths: Branding For Digital Lives by Mike Arauz
Digital Communications: It Isn’t Just Email Anymore by ClickZ Experts
Creative Commons Zero by ReadWriteWeb
Adobe On The Big Demographic Shift by Beet.TV
Pirate Movie Sites Expected To Grow by Advertising Age

Monetisation

Aggregation Of Marginal Gains by Avinash Kaushik
Free To Freemium: 5 Lessons Learned From Yousendit.com by Andrew Chen
Saving Money By Switching To EC2 Reserved Instances by Azure Journal

Technology & Infrastructure

How Amazon Built The World’s Most Scalable Storage by ZDNet
An Interview With The Developers Of FFMPEG by Phoronix
Carriers & Telcos Entering The CDN Market by Dan Rayburn
Tim Berners-Lee: The Next Web by TED Talks
An Upgrade For The Web by MIT Technology Review

Tips & Tutorials

Don’t Launch by Eric Ries
The 12 Points To Think About When Forming A Startup by Usability Counts
5 Ways To Simplify Analytics by KISSmetrics

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Our Bookmarks: Mar 02 – Mar 08

Monday, March 9th, 2009 by The BCM Team

The Week That Was In Links

Development & Production

The Final Digital Divide by ClickZ Experts
Empathy Is Growth by Business Week
Schedule And Cost Summary Calculator by Konigi
Throwing Away Working Code by Lessons Learned
The UX Of Money: How Interaction Design Can Help by Adaptive Path Blog

Promotion & Distribution

Life In The Post-Optical World by CrunchGear
YouTube Means Business by Streaming Learning Center
The Worst Possible Mistake You Could Make On Your Films Website by CinemaTech
PlayOn Moves To Rule The Streaming Content Roost by CrunchGear
TV Everywhere, As Long As You Pay For It by Advertising Age
Brand Evangelists Index by Avinash Kaushik

Monetisation

Web Video Round Table Sheds Light On Upcoming Problems by CNET News
Video Site Shakeout by paidContent.org
South Park, A Vision And A Payoff by NY Times
Don’t Throw Out The Subscription Model by Elder Game

Technology & Infrastructure

The Video Revolution Happened By Accident by Beet.TV
Cloud Computing’s Three Horse Race by GigaOM
New Method For Storing Web Content Could Make Global Internet Access Cheaper by MIT Technology Review
New Frontiers At LIFT 2009 by Putting People First

Tips & Tutorials

6 Tips For Designing UX: Part 1 by Designing Web Interfaces
Repurposing TV For Streaming by Streamingmedia.com
YouTube’s 720p Encoding by Streaming Learning Center
Lo, My 2295 Subscribers, Who Are You? by Lessons Learned

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Class ‘Array’ not found error when using sfCombineFilterPlugin in Symfony 1.0.x

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 by The BCM Team

If you are getting a “Class ‘Array’ not found” error when using sfCombineFilterPlugin then a quick fix would be to make the “filters.yml” file look like the following:


rendering: ~
web_debug: ~
security:  ~
# generally, you will want to insert your own filters here
cache:     ~
common:    ~
sfCombineFilter:
  class:   sfCombineFilter
    #param:
    #condition:
flash:     ~
execution: ~

What I did was comment out the param: and condition: lines.

Tags: array, filter, PHP, plugin, Symfony
Categories: Programming, Web Development
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PHP 5.2 in CentOS 5 and “Could not find update match for php” error

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 by The BCM Team

If you are here then you probably already know how to install PHP 5.2 on your CentOS 5.2. One of the ways would be to use a third-party repository like Remi. Here is a good article about how to use it.

If after trying to use a third-party repository to install PHP 5.2 you get a “Could not find update match for php” error then there is a big chance you have a priorities package installed in your CentOS distribution and some repos are not properly configured priorities wise: basically your third-party repo does not have a chance to look for PHP 5.2 binaries because other (default CentOS) repositories get priority.

The easiest way to fix the problem is to temporarily disable the priorities package.

Edit the priorities file:

sudo vi /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/priorities.conf

and set “enabled” equal to 0

To check if the priorities package is installed on your system run:

rpm -q yum-priorities

Tags: centos, php 5.2, priorities, repo, repository, yum
Categories: Operating Systems, Software
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Our Bookmarks: Feb 23 – Mar 01

Monday, March 2nd, 2009 by The BCM Team

The Week That Was In Links

Development & Production

Choosing A Camera For Online Video Production by Streamingmedia.com
The Future Of Advertising by John Willshire
What Kills Site Conversion? by Usability Counts
6 Warning Signs Of A Problem Client by Freelance Switch
Contract Killer by Andy Clarke

Promotion & Distribution

Best Practices For Deploying Widgets by ClickZ Experts
Using P2P To Distribute Branded Video by ClickZ Experts
What’s Next For Video Players? by NewTeeVee

Monetisation

Remember Online Video Is A Cost Center Not A Profit Center by Dan Rayburn
Which Startup’s Collapse Will End The Web 2.0 Era? by Andrew Chen

Technology & Infrastructure

7 Questions To Evaluate SaaS by GigaOM
Video: Whose Cloud Is It Anyway? by Techcrunch
Video Makes Its Way Into The IP Cloud by Fierce Online Video
Amazon Dynamo: The Next Generation Of Virtual Distributed Storage by ReadWriteWeb
AWS: Pros & Cons After Hands On Use by PINTBlog

Tips & Tutorials

Thinking Visually by David Armano
35 Resources For Getting The Most Out Of Google Website Optimiser by KISSmetrics
Adding Video To A Webpage by Adobe Developer Connection
Understanding Live DVR by Adobe Developer Connection

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