Hacker's ramblings

Last year I spent couple of days tinkering PHP-packages that will work on my Parallels Plesk Panel box. To my surprise, my box failed to auto-upgrade itself. The reason was: "Exception: Failed to solve dependencies:
plesk-php54-mysqlnd-5.4.31-1.el6.x86_64 requires plesk-php54-pdo = 5.4.31-1.el6
plesk-php55-mysqlnd-5.5.6-1.el6.x86_64 requires plesk-php55-pdo = 5.5.6-1.el6". I was dumbfounded, as the proper packages were already installed.

A closer inspection revealed, that packages from my own repository weren't good for installation. There were package dependencies, that required packages with exactly the same name, but from somebody else's repository.

Here are some links:

• http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PHP_5.4.40/dist-rpm-CentOS-6-x86_64/packages/
• http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PHP_5.5.24/dist-rpm-CentOS-6-x86_64/packages/
• http://autoinstall.plesk.com/PHP_5.6.8/dist-rpm-CentOS-6-x86_64/packages/

If you need to install new version, do something like this:

yum install --enablerepo PHP_5_6_8-dist plesk-php56-cli

The information for those came from file /etc/yum.repos.d/autoinstaller-sources.repo.

My only conclusion is, that Parallels guys took my source RPMs and created their own. Thanks for ripping me off!
Ok, this is open-source. I put my stuff out there willingly and knowing, that somebody eventually will use it. The sensible thing to do is to give appropriate credit, though. That one the big greedy corporation didn't do.

I had business in San Francisco and stayed out of my other things to do. Here are some pics:

That's Coit Tower in distance. On the other pic the Alcatraz Island is clearly visible in front of Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay.

In the business center, the Market Street looks like this from 6th floor:

And while having drinks in the 39th floor of San Francisco Marriott Marquis, the night view is something like this:

For those planning to travel to US, my recommendation is to get local SIM-card. The EU-limit of 62,- € will be reached pretty much immediately. The data roaming prices are insane. 1,- € / 50 KiB or similar. The SIMs sold at the airport cost three times more than the going price at the street is. I just went to a local T-Mobile store and got a pay-as-you-go card. Fee for the SIM was $15 and 1 GiB of  LTE transfer was $10, making the total $25. You can charge more gigabytes to the account if you run out.