Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
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
Tags: iptables, Linux, security
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Sunday, October 3rd, 2010
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
Tags: compiz, Linux, twinview, xinerama, xrandr
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Wednesday, September 29th, 2010
I’ve now found a color theme I like by way of the color theme browser. ... Read More
Tags: cedet, Clojure, ctags, ecb, Emacs, picolisp
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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
Tags: debugging, dig, Linux, networking, traceroute, tshark
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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
Tags: Linux, ps-watcher, sysadmin
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Tags: backup, BackupPC, FSlint, Linux, Sbackup, Unison
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Friday, September 10th, 2010
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
Tags: cairo dock, Linux, ubuntu
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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
Tags: bash, bzip2, Linux, mysql, scp, shell, ssh
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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
Tags: ftp, Linux, ncftp, Ruby
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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
Tags: apache, ssl, verisign
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