The WordPress Google Analytics plugin screwed me

July 22, 2008

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 definately [...]

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The Linux Magic SysRq key

July 19, 2008

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 [...]

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Scripts To Make Administrating Lots of MySQL Databases a Little Easier

July 17, 2008

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 [...]

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Forcibly Trigger a Kernel Panic on Linux

July 17, 2008

This might sound strange, as people usually want to fix or prevent their computer from kernel panicing, but I was 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 kernel version 2.4, or were [...]

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Gnome Do

July 15, 2008

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. [...]

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A WordPress Gripe

July 15, 2008

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 installation. Granted, [...]

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SD write support on the Android port to the Vogue

July 15, 2008

Today, Martin Johnson released something I’m been waiting a long time for in his progress of porting Android to the Vogue — SD controller support! I haven’t tested this yet, I’ll be playing with it tonight when I get off work. Here’s the notes from Martin: The SD driver now works, this means you don’t [...]

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Missing Google Maps Mobile v2.2.0 on a Windows Mobile phone

July 11, 2008

This is just a gripe that Google hasn’t released Google Maps Mobile v2.2.0 for a Windows Mobile-based phones or pocket PCs yet.  The version has been out for the Blackberry’s for weeks… Where’s my update!? Edit: this has been out for ages now, disregard.

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Compiling a Shell Script To Obscure the Source

July 10, 2008

Well, there’s been a few times that I’ve written a shell script that was really neat.  Something that other people would have paid for a copy of. (I was too lazy to rewrite it in another language.) Up until now, I wasn’t aware you could compile a shell script, in the attempts from keeping people [...]

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Installing a grsec-patched kernel on a CentOS 5 or RHEL 5 server

June 26, 2008

Here’s my little guide for upgrading a CentOS server to a grsec-patched kernel. At the time of this writing, this was the latest stable grsec patch available. Fetch the sources: wget http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.24.5.tar.bz2 wget http://grsec.linux-kernel.at/grsecurity-2.1.11-2.6.24.5-200804211829.patch.gz Extract: tar xjf linux-2.6.24.5.tar.gz gzip -d grsecurity-2.1.11-2.6.24.5-200804211829.patch.gz Patch the kernel: patch -p0 < grsecurity-2.1.11-2.6.24.5-200804211829.patch cd linux-2.6.24.5 && make clean && make [...]

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