When I program Clojure and PicoLisp I use Emacs and it’s the way things are done in Emacs which inspired me to looking into making myself more productive doing PHP in Eclipse.... Read More

I’ve just had a shit of a time going from a dual boot setup with Windows on sda and Ubuntu on sdb to a Ubuntu only software RAID1 setup using both drives without having to erase or otherwise screw up the existing Ubuntu install on sdb (I’m using Lucid Lynx). ... Read More

I’ve just had to cache all images on a site in RAM in order to limit the amount of disc scratching going on.... Read More

It’s hard to beat the SYSSTAT / kSAR combo for easy and quick setup of monitoring servers and in this tutorial you will see how it’s done.... Read More

Most of the most commonly used and useful Linux commands needs a file as input, in the shell this can be circumvented by for instance a line like this: echo “hej” | md5sum.... Read More

If you’ve read the article about my email server setup you quickly realize that adding a new email account is quite onerous, a combination of adding records to tables in a MySQL database and creating folders on the harddrive. This can easily be automated with for instance PHP and I’ll show you how below.... Read More

Update: I keep having to redo this setup and get tripped up on what to install all the time so here is the complete install line: apt-get install postfix dovecot opendkim postfix-mysql dovecot-pop3d dovecot-imapd which already assumes you’ve got mysql server installed.... Read More

I just had to format and mount a second HD in a Ubuntu system.... Read More

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Above is probably one of the most complicated crontabs I’ve ended up with.... Read More

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