Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Opening up a port with IPTables

Friday, February 18th, 2011

After a lot of hair pulling and swearing I just managed to open up a new port (8090) on a Ubuntu server for the first time. The IPTables HowTo is a good document but below I have condensed the pertinent information you need if you just want to open up a port.... Read More

Vertical dual screen setup with XRandR and Compiz

Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
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I recently bought a Samsung Syncmaster. As opposed to the last time I tried to setup my second screen in a vertical position it worked this time. The Samsung screen has the same viewing angle and picture quality when positioned vertically as it has when positioned default horizontally.... Read More

Emacs Color Themes, CTags, CEDET, ECB and other Customizations

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
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I’ve now found a color theme I like by way of the color theme browser. ... Read More

Linux network troubleshooting with the weirdest case scenario

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

So my server crashed for the third time in a short time period the other day. Hopefully it won’t happen again.... Read More

Process Watcher

Saturday, September 18th, 2010

My VizReader server has crashed 3 times in roughly as many weeks now and I have no idea why, nothing unusual shows up in the logs.... Read More

Backing up with Unison and cleaning up with FSlint in Ubuntu

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

Backing up... Read More

Cairo Dock – Buuf style!

Friday, September 10th, 2010
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I’ve just finished customizing Cairo Dock in Karmic Koala, I installed through the weekly repository which worked like a charm. At first I tried installing the default Ubuntu version through Synaptic but that older version proved to bee too unstable, the one I have now is 2.2 and runs like a charm.... Read More

Remote MySQL database backup with local Linux shell

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

There is a lot of talk about a lot of automation tools these days. Truth is though that you can cover a lot by simply using a normal shell script and some common Linux tools.... Read More

Batch FTP with NcFTP and Ruby

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

I just experienced the weirdest thing ever on a shared hosting space (avoid One.com). For some reason folders I knew to be there (accessible through http) were not showing up in the FileZilla directory browser. Files I just had to download due to a hosting move.... Read More

Installing a Verisign Root and Intermediate Certificate in Apache2

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

1.) Create your csr file and hand it over to Verisign, don’t make it password protected, leave the password empty.... Read More