Zero Filling a Disk in Linux

The simple way to wipe or zerofill a disk is: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd? bs=1M However I found an article describing how to zero-fill with a progress indicator using pipebench, installed on Debian/Ubuntu ...

Increasing CentOS LVM under VMWare

Background: I had an existing CentOS machine as a virtual machine running on VMWare ESX Server and it was running out of space so for future reference I did the ...

SquidGuard LDAP User Search and Special Characters

So I had a problem with the ldapusersearch string as some eejit has created an OU with spaces and an apostrophe in the name. So the characters are represented as: comma ...

Flushing local client DNS cache

From info I found here. This is how to flush the local client DNS cache. Windows: ipconfig /flushdns Linux: sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart Mac: lookupd -flushcache

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Written by jonny in linux, red hat centos, ubuntu

27
Oct
2010

Justniffer Monitoring Network Traffic

Just read about Justniffer on UbuntuGeek and decided to give it a whirl. Downloaded deb installer from SourceForge and ran with: 1justniffer -i eth0 I received the following output showing a few [...]

Written by jonny in web design

20
Oct
2010

TinyMCE for Sending Email

I had an issue today with TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor which uses proper XHTML and CSS for aligning elements. This is all good for CMS style usage but my usage was [...]

Written by jonny in web design

18
Oct
2010

Images Working in IE but not Firefox

I had an issue today while working on Peter Fitzpatrick Estate Agents website. I had an image to add to the side bar to focus visitors attention on a new [...]

Written by jonny in Uncategorized

5
Oct
2010

Ashtree Show Jumps Newry Ireland

Ashtree construct and supply quality affordable show jumps for beginner to advanced levels. Our speciality is mobile easy-to-move cross-country fences built on a one-fits-all removable axle system. We supply jumps [...]