This tool from pendrivelinux.com is a useful utility to help create a bootable USB pen drive with a menu system for booting into multiple operating systems. It works from within [...]

On Linux to discover which processes are using all the swap run top press ‘O’ (capital letter o) then ‘p’ then ‘enter’ Processes should be sorted by their swap usage.As [...]

Since I like posting screeshots of uptime figures here is one of an anti-spam machine up for 1496 days (just over 4 years). The machine is running Red Hat 4.

There are several different commands that can be used to install Apache and MySQL services with PHP support: sudo apt-get install tasksel && sudo tasksel sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ sudo [...]

I needed to add mysqli support to cPanel and did so by logging in to the WHM on port 2087 scrolling down the left menu to Software and clicking EasyApache [...]

Background: I made a tar backup of one system and wanted to untar that onto different hardware. A bit like cloning. However I needed to make sure the hostname and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

So I tested out Skipfish today to do a quick check on a website / web server. Hosted on Google at: http://code.google.com/p/skipfish/ download it, extract it and make and run: [...]

Occasionally useful to find out the dimensions of an image without having to load an image editor or file manager. From the ImageMagick toolkit: identify myimage.jpg tiffinfo myimage.tif pnginfo myimage.png