Video files can be converted using GUI tools such as Handbrake, Arista, WinFF but if you don’t mind the command line – or if you want to automate video file [...]

I needed to output the results of a MySQL query today for further analysis and found the answer here. For future reference… SELECT * FROM errors WHERE mailfrom LIKE ‘a.n.other%’ [...]

The goals analysis in Piwik is a little limited in comparison with Google Analytics but the following plugin which is in development looks promising and of use already.http://dev.piwik.org/trac/ticket/220

These two snippets of PHP perform the same function but the ternary operator takes much less space. Read more great PHP tips at phpro.org /*** using if / else ***/ [...]

To find a text string within files in all sub-directories: find . -type f | xargs -r0 grep -F ‘dodgystring’ or find . -type f -exec grep -l “dodgystring” {} [...]

My Virtual Machine was named http1 so I cloned the vdi as http2.vdi using the VBoxManage command: VBoxManage clonevdi http1.vdi ../pathtonewlocation/http2.vdi The output was: 0%…10%…20%…30%…40%…50%…60%…70%…80%…90%…100%Clone hard disk created in format [...]

Uptime of 1214 days on an internal email scanning server running Red Hat Linux 4.

I thought I would jot down a few notes about today’s adventures with SNMP. Specifically using SNMP with Nagios mostly on Red Hat/CentOS. I have an appliance from a third-party [...]

1084 days on this internal monitoring machine. Unfortunately I had to take the machine down as I was replacing it.

In Linux to find files not owned by user using the ‘find’ command we negate with the exclamation mark so rather than: find . -user jonny we use: find . [...]