Trying to update my control panel software (Manages stuff like email websites etc, etc) and I get this
checking whether the C++ compiler (gcc ) works… no
configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler cannot create executables.
Kind of annoying, yes.
But even more annoying that it then went on to delete my current (working) copy of My control panel.
Luckily everything works, I just have to do things manually until I can get this fixed
First of all, before I start writing, I need to state the following.
This blog is published on Novell affiliated website(s) This post does in no way represent the view of Novell/Microsoft or any of their employees, and is only my own personal opinion on this subject.
For those of you who haven’t already read, Novell and Microsoft have entered into 3 agreements of Collaboration between the companies. See here for more info
The way I see it is yes, this is a good thing in general for Linux. With Microsoft actively participating in the collaboration between open source and Windows, it can only be a good thing, finally, we will be able to integrate Windows and Linux clients seamlessly, they’ll work together, and everything will be groovy.
For SUSE Enterprise customers.
Yes, this will bring technical advances and help with the proliferation of Linux, undoubtedly, but - the way the Press Release and FAQ are written, it seems to me that Novell and Microsoft will be working hand in hand to exclude anyone outside their customer bases from using anything that will come from this collaboration.
Novell, up to this point to me have seemed to make huge steps into the Open Source Market, making a lot of contributions in lots of projects, but with this announcement, it now seems that they just want themselves to benefit, not the rest of the FLOSS community. Do we really want Novell to become the “Microsoft” of Linux? Monopolising on the things that are going to get the paying customers to use their Products? I remember a quote from an interview with Novell’s Greg Mancusi-Ungaro in LXF which was this
Well, if we ever woke up one day and said ‘Wow, Novell is the Microsoft of Linux’ or ‘Red Hat is the Microsoft of Linux’, then the Linux movement would be over.
I totally agree, but to me, it looks like this is a step in that direction for Novell.
By the way, feel free to flame me^W^Wcomment, I’d love to hear other people’s opinions on this
So, not too long ago - I moved to a different webhosting provider, thinking it’d provide me with everything I needed and more.
Now, I’m sort of wishing I hadn’t. It’s getting to the point where I’m just thinking that the support people are complete and utter dumbasses.
Now, to start off, I used to use Bazaar … which is a great Revision Control System - though slightly ancient. Well - back in those times - I was using webdav to post my stuff to my webserver!
Great you might say, except for the fact that to use webdav I had to use my main FTP login. Not good… for security reasons. Meaning I’d have to find another way - or setup webdav slightly differently. So - going onto the support site, I looked through everything, and it seemed that I’d be able to use webdav with Frontpage extensions enabled, using the username and password for that. Did that work? no… so I email support, telling them my situation, the problems, how to get round them usually, what wasn’t working, exact errors, debugging info etc. What do they do? send me to the same thing I read before. So I email them back telling them that I’ve read all that, and I’ve tried it and it doesn’t work, and that I’d actually told them that in the previous email that I’d done so. I get a reply back sending me to random stuff that has nothing to do with webdav at all.
So, I give up on that line.
I then start using Bazaar-NG - hoping that the next generation stuff would be useful for me. After managing to set it up and get it all running over the slow sftp connection provided… I then get people reporting that they can’t get the archive. After a lil chat with the bzr people, I finally find out it’s because my webserver is being over zealous - for a file called bla.bla.bla.sig that doesn’t exist, it’s returning an error 300 saying “bla.bla.bla.sig doesnt exist, but bla.bla.bla does”… meaning that Bazaar-NG doesnt know what to do… and falls over.
Yay I say to myself. Yay.
I’ve just emailed support asking if they know how to switch that off… because technically it can be a security
risk. If anyone knows - please tell me! It has to be done through a .htaccess though..
*sighs* lets hope the fact that this is on a couple of planets saves my ass and gets me through
this nightmare, because I doubt that the support will come up with anything useful