03
Dec
2013

Acer Aspire Reboots on Ubuntu Shutdown

ubuntu

I had a problem using Ubuntu and an Acer Aspire V5-571G. Every time I opted to shutdown, the laptop would reboot again after a few seconds. I found this article with the answer for Fedora and to make it work on Ubuntu I chose to replace the shutdown... » More

28
Nov
2013

Munin Bootstrap Template: Munstrap

open source

Alternative Munin Template So after playing around with an alternative template from Munin 1.x I took some time to amend the standard Munin templates using Twitter Bootstrap as a base. The Munstrap files are available from GitHub. The files on GitHub include bootstrap (version... » More
07
Nov
2013

ntopng on CentOS 6

linux, network, red hat centos

ntopng Ensure you have the EPEL repository installed first then do the following to add a repository for ntopng: vi /etc/yum.repos.d/ntop.repo Add the following (the deri bit at the end below is not cut off - it works): name=ntop... » More
06
Nov
2013

Installing Munin 2.x on Centos 6

linux, red hat centos

Ensure you have the epel repository installed then: yum install --disablerepo=rpmforge munin-node.noarch munin.noarch The configuration file for Apache is located at: vi /etc/httpd/conf.d/munin.conf Create the username/password file referred to in... » More
01
Nov
2013

Move Minimize, Maximize and Close Buttons Ubuntu

ubuntu

Ubuntu Window Controls On Ubuntu 13.10 the following terminal commands help to configure the window control buttons and a few other things: Move the Window Controls to the Right gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout ':minimize,maximize,close' Move... » More

28
Oct
2013

gcp: Copy with a Progress Bar

linux

gcp I decided to try and use gcp by default in place of the normal cp command so that I would have a progress bar by default. On Ubuntu install gcp with: sudo apt-get install gcp Now to use gcp by default instead of cp: mv /bin/cp... » More

23
Oct
2013

Pxeboot CentOS Environment

linux, red hat centos

Organised Chaos While re-purposing a few old Google Search Appliances I set up a Network Boot Enviornment as follows: Install Dependencies yum install tftp-server tftp syslinux httpd dhcp Configure tftp mkdir /tftpboot vi /etc/xinetd.d/tftp service... » More
08
Oct
2013

smbclient: Special Characters and UTF-8

linux, windows

I have a PHP web application that communicates to Windows Shares via the smbclient binary. My problem was that some characters (particularly accented characters such as é ) were not being shown on the PHP page and were even causing lines of output to be... » More