After toying with a few new themes I have activated one of them on this blog today. I’d love to hear your thoughts on the change. Better? Worse? Anything missing? Drop by, leave a comment, and tell me what you think. P.S. I know OpenID is broken. I’m looking into it..
I spent a little bit of time trying to find an answer to this today but I was unsuccessful. I’m hoping one of you will have the secret for me. Situation: I’ve configured my .ssh/config file with profile and port information for the many servers I connect to on a regular basis. Problem: One of… Read More »
Earlier today I found myself in a situation where one Ubuntu machine was missing an executable available on the second. After trying to guess the package name a few times without success I pulled this little number out of my bag of tricks: cedwards@monkey:~$ dpkg -S $(which host) bind9-host: /usr/bin/host As you can see, this… Read More »
I’ve been doing some thinking about how I might be able to light a fire under this blog again and get back to a regular post schedule. I feel like I’ve exhausted much of the Ubuntu subect matter that this blog has generally focused on. In that regard I’ve been tempted to post a number… Read More »
At work we maintain over a hundred machines, most of which are regularly accessed via SSH by our developers. Due to the number of machines and the number of tasks that need completed, we found that many of the developers would often forget they were logged into a server and leave an idle SSH session… Read More »
I got to thinking about something the other day when I rebuilt my webserver using Debian 5.0. How does Debian/Ubuntu standardize on reloading the iptables rules at boot time? I know that Red Hat and its variants use the /etc/sysconfig/iptables file as a save and restore point, and there is an init script, iptables, that… Read More »
I’ve seen a few posts over here regarding problems with an unmaintained WordPress installation. It definitely can be work to manage software that is not covered within the supported repositories (WP is in the repositories, but its not updated as frequently as upstream). I thought I would cover how I maintain my installations and hopefully… Read More »
Some time ago I posted on how to simplify your dropbox URLs by using .htaccess files within Apache web server. Now that I’ve switched to Lighttpd I needed to find the equivalent. Here is what I came up with: ## dropbox redirection server.modules += ( “mod_redirect” ) $HTTP[“url”] =~ “^/dropbox/(.*)” { url.redirect = ( “^/dropbox/(.*)”… Read More »
Based on the comments from the previous post I wanted to offer an update. A much simpler solution is to simply activate the compositing within recent versions of Gnome. gconftool-2 -s –type bool /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager true This does introduce a known bug which can break enabling compiz however. If you want to activate compiz after toggling… Read More »
We had a DNS hiccup overnite. My apologies. There always seems to be something that gets missed when doing a server migration. Turns out, when I cut off the old server, there were still DNS entries pointed there that I had missed. I believe this problem has been solved. Again, my apologies for the downtime.