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Command Line Tips 28 December, 2006

Working with command line while at first intimidating is a simple and practical means to interact with the computer. Basic Commands to get…

Image Magick 28 December, 2006

This very cool technology. It allows you to edit drawings and pictures using command line. Create an sh document to execute the commands…

Pagerank Spam 22 December, 2006

I found a pagerank spam website, designed only to raise the pagerank of itself and other spam websites this evening while researching…

Wordpress Cache Plugin 22 December, 2006

This Wordpress cache plugin uses Pear's Cache_Lite: Plugin URI: Description: Caching thanks to Pear's Cache Lite. This plugin will capture…

Mtasc and Ming actionscript compilers 20 December, 2006

I'm trying to figure out if Mtasc and Ming can work together, and if it makes sense to get them to work together. Can't seem to figure out…

PDF2SWF SWF2PDF 20 December, 2006

I scoured the web looking for a swf2pdf converter, or vice-versa, a pdf2swf converter, which I did eventually find thanks to SWF Tools pdf…

Flash Bitmap API Notes 17 December, 2006

I've successfully attached a bitmap to a movie clip using this code: However, when I duplicate that movie clip, the bitmap doesn't come…

Making a JPEG Mask with Ming setMaskLevel or Flash BitmapData API 17 December, 2006

I'm trying to use setMaskLevel in Ming, to mask a jpeg, unfortunately I can't find anything useful on the subject. Best bet was gazb's site…

Defending against Unsolicited Commercial Email UCE also known as Spam Page 2 Postfix 13 December, 2006

Postfix has some great Spam control settings, but they are confusing! Here's what I think I've figured out: What follows are my postfix UCE…

Defending against Unsolicited Commercial Email UCE also known as Spam Page 3 Spamassassin 13 December, 2006

Now that an email has traversed its way through the maze of iptables and postfix restrictions, we can open up the envelope and look inside…

Defending against Unsolicited Commercial Email UCE also known as Spam Page 4 Mail Clients 13 December, 2006

Oh yes, there's more! Let's make this easy. Use Thunderbird instead of Outlook. Mac Mail will also work, but its not cross-browser…

Defending against Unsolicited Commercial Email UCE also known as Spam Page 5 Conclusion 13 December, 2006

In conclusion, spam is bad, and I don't like it. But seriously though, I hope you've found this information entertaining enough to read…

Linux File Management Notes 13 December, 2006

Remove .DS_Store files: Get all the users in a group: ln -s /dev/null $HOME/.mysql_history or ln -s /dev/null $HOME/.bash_historyCount # of…

Unsolicited Commercial Email UCE Spam Defenses 13 December, 2006

The spam fighting process I use (in order): iptables - iptables is an extreme method of blocking email. From the sender's perspective, the…

Spamassassin lint no network tests 13 December, 2006

I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure this one out: on Gentoo, this command shows networks tests: However, on Debian, it doesn't. I…

ffmpeg 11 December, 2006

I'm wrestling with ffmpeg trying to figure out the best conversion settings for mp4 to flv. So far I'm not having any luck, though I finally…

Wordpress Caching 11 December, 2006

Wordpress rocks, but it doesn't have much for http client or server caching. Currently I use Cache Lite from PEAR and it works wonders. I…

Google coop and Wordpress Setup Howto 10 December, 2006

Google coop is a natural companion to Wordpress (or other types of) blogs. Here's how I setup Google coop on the Informed Banking Blog…

Mac OS X Directory Access 10 December, 2006

I love the idea of linking Mac OS X user access to a directory, such as LDAP. If you can connect and authenticate via LDAP, you are that…

Blocking Bot Requests with Apache 09 December, 2006

Awhile back I had setup an htaccess file with rules to block "bad bots", but I soon realized it wasn't the best way to set up the service…

Snort 09 December, 2006

After my post on blocking bad bots, I remembered snort. While snort doesn't do any blocking, it does detection like the best of them. I got…

fail2ban iptable.conf action 08 December, 2006

I need to contribute this to fail2ban if they'll take it: iptables -L takes a very long time to display the rules Just posted this to the…

Creative Commons Copy Me Remix Me 05 December, 2006

This is a song I remied for a Creative Commons contest, remixing Superego by BM Relocation Program. My remix wasn't selected, but I did get…

OLPC Virtual Appliance 05 December, 2006

The one laptop per child, sub $100 laptop is now available as a virtual machine. Virtualization is so amazing! Download the VMWare image…

mytop 04 December, 2006

Mytop is a "top" like utility that allows you to see mysql processes. I learned about it form the MySQL Best Practices video Google hosts…

fail2ban is making waves 02 December, 2006

I'm really starting to like fail2ban. It just when through a major overhaul, and while I was pulling my hair out for awhile trying to figure…

MySQL Low memory 02 December, 2006

Here's what I use for Mysql low memory setups (still has a 1MB query cache):

The Semantic Web 02 December, 2006

My father-in-law just sent me a great article from the NY Times about the semantic web, a.k.a. web 3.0. It discussed the future of…

firewall thoughts 01 December, 2006

I'm always striving for improved security on the services I manage, therefore, I'm always thinking about firewalls. I've got a couple of…

Vlogger 01 December, 2006

I'm now using vlogger to parse my Apache logs, but maybe not for long. I keep getting these errors: I think this is simply an error caused…

Sorting in prepared queries 26 November, 2006

I'm trying to get prepared queries to take an order by sort parameter, either ASC or DESC. The problem I am running into is that both ASC…

Another Tuning Apache Article 21 November, 2006

I just spent most of the day working with Apache, tuning it to run better. My main effort was to eliminate the use of .htaccess files. It…

Caching with PHP and Apache 21 November, 2006

Since both PHP and Apache can manage cache headers, it is difficult to decide which one should do what. In my experience, its been best to…

Debian packages 21 November, 2006

Debian packages can get complicated, but they don't have to be. The best howto I've read is from good old TLDP: Howto build debian packages…

Nexista 21 November, 2006

Nexista is a PHP framework written by yoga-master Joshua Savage. He's since stopped working on it and I continue to use it. I'm planning on…

Fail2ban for SPAM 19 November, 2006

Spammers never learn, even if you block them using DNSBL, they keep trying to send from the same IP. Therefore it makes sense to use fail…

Docunext Mission Statement 18 November, 2006

Docunext Represent! The mission of docunext.com is to provide free access to high-quality, technology-related documentation. As a community…

Website fingerprints 15 November, 2006

Stunnel Notes 14 November, 2006

Stunnel Installation on Debian: apt-get install stunnel4 This should create the stunnel4 user and group./etc/default/stunnel4 Change Enable…

TCPDump Notes 14 November, 2006

More fun with Tcpdump: I'm trying to figure out why there are dns requests being made from my webserver. It is either: * mod_vhost_alias…

LDAP Notes 01 November, 2006

I keep getting this error: http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/cyrus2/options.html The book is printed incorrectly, about half the book is…

openldap mysql documentation 31 October, 2006

New effort as of Oct 2006 Made some very good progress: Metadata Database Tables This is the most challenging part of the process for me…

Getting Mac OS X and Linux to work together 30 October, 2006

How to Create an ISO image on Mac os x @ macosxhints.com

Linux Notes 29 October, 2006

ps aux --forest find . -name '.DS_Store' -exec rm {} ; grep "groupname" /etc/group | awk -F: '{print $4}' ln -s /dev/null $HOME/.mysql…

libnss mysql documentation 28 October, 2006

http://libnss-mysql.sourceforge.net/ I finally got apache2 and pam to connect to mysql. Took long enough! Ugh. I did learn a bunch though…

apt get Notes 03 October, 2006

Our sources.lst looks like this: We don't need to have the sources, but it's nice to have sometimes. A: apt-get update; apt-get upgrade A: Q…

Converting from Gentoo to Debian 29 September, 2006

I think Debian is stricter when it comes to VirtualHost directives, which is probably A Good Thing TM. They won't let you mix up…

Energy Consumption 29 September, 2006

Understanding energy usage is becoming more and more important for consumers. Get the information you need! I user a Kill A Watt energy…

Some PHP Notes 26 September, 2006

ClamAV installation and configuration notes 12 September, 2006

Listen: 127.0.0.1:10026 to Listen: 127.0.0.1:10025 the test files are in /usr/share/clamav-testfiles/ Try sending these, you should see…

ClamAV Installation and Configuration Notes 12 September, 2006

ClamAV Step 1) apt-get install clamsmtp clamav-freshclam Step 2) Edit the /etc/clamsmtpd.conf file and change: OutAddress: 10025 to…

Comparison of PHP Bug Trackers 12 September, 2006

The first thing I look for is a demo. It is by far the easiest way to get a feel for a piece of software. The attention to detail balanced…

Flyspray Documentation 12 September, 2006

Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libphp-adodb wwwconfig-common Suggested packages…

PHP 5 Frameworks 12 September, 2006

Back in the day I worked on Phing (a PHP port of Apache's Ant). Back then I didn't really know what I was doing but Andreas Aderhold was…

Web Stats Notes and Thoughts 22 August, 2006

General: Total amount of visits to the website is good information, but we need to dig into the hits deeper to understand more. This…

Mac OS X RAID Notes 16 August, 2006

http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/2006/03/30/only_one_apple_raid_partition_1.html#comments and "Disk Utility used with Mac OS X offers RAID…

Ghosting Notes backup dd 15 August, 2006

How to ghost a drive using dd on linux Mac OS X use of dd to recover a hard drive Wikipedia page on dd Example: Since I use a mac, I can't…

PHP Lesson 4 Database 15 August, 2006

PHP Lesson 5 Control Structures 15 August, 2006

http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=381922&rl=1 http://www.developer.com/lang/php/article.php/947911

Nano and Screen 14 August, 2006

Hard Drive Notes 13 August, 2006

SATA Raid 5 Setup I use Seagate drives, and I just read on FatWallet and SlickDeals that many Seagate SATA II drives come with a jumper…

KVM Over IP 13 August, 2006

We will use the KVM over IP to remotely manage our servers at the data center. Due to the complexity of our server configurations, it is…

apcupsd Notes 12 August, 2006

After trying out a few uninterruptible power supplies from two manufacturers: Cyber Power APC I definitely like APC better. Their apcupsd…

DNS Domain Name Server Notes 11 August, 2006

I just setup a MyDNS server, and was amazed at how easy it was. I've used the DynDns service for years, and grew to enjoy its simplicity. I…

Linksys NSLU2 aka the SLUG 08 August, 2006

Linux Power Management 08 August, 2006

http://www.apcupsd.org/manual/ ¥

OpenWRT Notes 06 August, 2006

QOS Script for OpenWRT 06 August, 2006

I have a 768 / 128 kbps naked (no telephone service), and this is the QOS (quality of service) script I use on my OpenWRT wireless router. I…

rsync notes 24 July, 2006

Use symbolic links to have them included in the rsync (for including a folder that is outside the root of the rsync), use Mac aliases to…

Database Modeling and Normalization 17 July, 2006

I'm studying database normalization techniques. This is something I should have done a long time ago. However, I didn't have access to, or…

NagiosQL Notes 11 July, 2006

NagiosQL is a web front end for Nagios 2. We just installed it and it looks really cool. Since the documentation we've seen is mostly in…

Subversion Documentation 09 July, 2006

I was introduced to Subversion through Nexista, which was hosted at Tigris. Tigris also hosted Subversion, so I gave it a shot. Seemed to…

Caching Theory 08 July, 2006

Most web content is now dynamic content, preventing client and proxy caches from doing much good. However, if the dynamic content server is…

PHP 5 Optimizers 06 July, 2006

While xcache's configuration setup is a little confusing, its awesome! It appears to chop off about .04 seconds of execution time. Awesome!

ejabberd Documentation 05 July, 2006

inet_gethost is causing us problems. We can turn it off by using -name instead of -sname in the init script. Seems to run fine, using…

Nexista Documentation 02 July, 2006

Not using the php_build script from Joshua anymore, just using Debian packages, in particular: Specifically needed php5-dev to compile php…

Linux AFPD Notes 08 June, 2006

Apache2 Documentation 15 May, 2006

Many things cause this error, but in my case, mod_auth was not enabled. Duh.Apache2 PerformanceUpdate We've switched to Prefork MPM for…

ps2pdf Notes 07 May, 2006

Defines whether ps2pdf will compress embedded fonts in the output. The default value is true; the false setting is intended only for…

Why we choose Debian 05 May, 2006

We chose debian for its reliability. They also have a logical social contract: http://www.debian.org/social_contract The social contract is…

Freeradius Documentation 03 May, 2006

emerge freeradius failed on gentoo: >>> Test phase [not enabled]: net-dialup/freeradius-1.1.1-r1>>> Install freeradius-1.1.1-r1 into /var…

OpenVPN Documentation 01 May, 2006

There are some good websites on OpenVPN. One of course being the OpenVPN website itself. I am using tun instead of tap. From what I gathered…

traffic control tc Documentation 01 May, 2006

http://snafu.freedom.org/linux2.2/iproute-notes.html http://www.opalsoft.net/qos/

Gentoo Notes 29 April, 2006

Nokia770 Motorola e815 and VerizonWireless 29 April, 2006

Actually, its pretty easy to connect the 770 to the e815, for connection to the internet via Verizon Wireless. Follow these steps to get…

Postfix Notes 28 April, 2006

1b.Need to edit master.cf - change /usr/local/bin/maildrop to /usr/bin/maildrop 1c.Add this to /etc/postfix/main.cf: virtual_transport…

Virtual Mail Documentation 25 April, 2006

Got this error when setting up Gentoo Virtual Mail Server: It was a permissions error on the virtual mail folder. The virtual transport can…

Uninterruptible Power Supply UPS Documentation 22 January, 2006

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