It came up in IRC today that there was a typing game called typespeed — one of the categories is “Unix Commands.” Better yet, this supports head to head networking mode, so you can play against people in your office, I didn’t even need to edit my firewall configuration on Ubuntu.
Playing your coworkers is good [...]
Posted on July 31st, 2008 by Phil Dufault
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To install libtidy in PHP5, it’s really quite easy.
Make sure your /tmp directory doesn’t have something like noexec set on it, otherwise this would be more difficult.
Here’s the install command:
pecl install http://pecl.php.net/get/tidy-1.2.tgz
Find where your main php.ini file is:
root@server [~]# php -i|grep php.ini
Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /usr/local/lib
Loaded Configuration File => /usr/local/lib/php.ini
Add the module to your [...]
Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Phil Dufault
Filed under: CentOS, Linux, PHP, Redhat | 3 Comments »
Today is the annual Sysadmin Day, so take the time and honour your hard working local sysadmins that keep things running.
http://www.sysadminday.com/
Update: My boss bought me lunch as a present. Hooray!
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Phil Dufault
Filed under: Blog | 1 Comment »
This in from Martin’s page:
Update(24/7/08): I’ve repackaged the files in android.zip and updated a few things. Now you don’t need to copy 256M to your SD card, just put system.gz and data.gz on the card and the first time it boots they will be extracted to system.img and data.img (thanks to Kevin’s initramfs installer for [...]
Posted on July 25th, 2008 by Phil Dufault
Filed under: Android, Google, HTC Vogue, Linux | 2 Comments »
I just noticed that after upgrading the Google Analytics plugin for Wordpress, my settings weren’t carried over, and that Google Analytics hasn’t been able to track my pageloads.
I guess it should have squawked someplace that it wasn’t configured… that’d of been nice. It’s not like the tracking data is critical, but I was [...]
Posted on July 22nd, 2008 by Phil Dufault
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I find it shocking how many people don’t know about this neat Linux key combination that let’s you execute various low level commands regardless of the system’s state (as long as it’s running and hasn’t panicked.)
From the Wikipedia page:
It is often used to recover from freezes, or to reboot a computer without corrupting the filesystem.
How [...]
Posted on July 19th, 2008 by Phil Dufault
Filed under: CentOS, Gentoo, Linux, Redhat, Ubuntu | 1 Comment »
This post is probably only helpful to a system administrator of large shared servers that happen to have a lot of MySQL databases.
These scripts are meant to administrate all of the databases and tables on a single server currently, I might refine them to also work only database or table name’s supplied.
One of the scripts, [...]
Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Phil Dufault
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This might sound strange, as people usually want to fix or prevent these from happening, I’m trying to test/ create a method of logging kernel panic messages to a remote logging server. All of the existing tutorials I found on the net were for Linux 2.4, or were incomplete.
My method involves creating a Linux [...]
Posted on July 17th, 2008 by Phil Dufault
Filed under: CentOS, Gentoo, Linux, Redhat, Ubuntu | No Comments »
I use Ubuntu at work, and today one of my coworkers linked me to Gnome Do:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomeDo
I remember seeing it a few weeks ago, but was busy with something and brushed it off. Now, I’ve installed it and played with it some — it’s awesome. Kind of like launchy for Windows, but on steriods.
Give it [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Phil Dufault
Filed under: Linux, Ubuntu | 3 Comments »
I updated to Wordpress 2.6 today, and again, I’m amazed at the tediousness of it. I’m suprised that they haven’t mastered a good way of doing this. For example, the guys at SMF have a system in place that either remembers or you type in your FTP password, and it updates your SMF [...]
Posted on July 15th, 2008 by Phil Dufault
Filed under: Blog | 7 Comments »