WooThemes Artificer Home Button

The Artificer theme from WooThemes by default adds a home icon to the main navigation menu. To remove the icon edit the file: ./includes/theme-functions.php Find the new_nav_menu_items function and comment out the lines that add the home icon button as... » More

Command Line Wireless Trouble-shooting

I wanted to compare the command line output of a working Wifi connection versus a connection at a location that was giving us trouble. To do so I used Ubuntu (12.10) on a laptop and used the following commands - in a script if necessary. First a... » More

Replacing Google Reader with Tiny Tiny RSS

I followed the installation instructions on the Tiny Tiny RSS website - downloading and extracting the tar file, importing the SQL into MySQL mysql -u root -pTopSecret --database reader < ./schema/ttrss_schema_mysql.sql Copy the dist config file... » More

DNS Benchmarking

I was trying to check performance on some local DNS servers in comparison to some public DNS servers so I started with using Dig to check  the response times between a local DNS server (blurred out below) and one of the Google DNS servers. I first... » More

Fail2Ban Custom Action

I decided to experiment with creating a central database to hold the IP addresses banned by various servers / honeypots running Fail2Ban - so that the information could be used as a source for IPtables or TCPWrappers to protect other servers. I... » More

Minecraft Server on CentOS 6

I downloaded the minecraft server package and extracted it to /opt/minecraft I installed screen and Java (OpenJDK) using yum as follows: yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk screen The SysV init startup scripts provided on the Wiki didn't work for me... » More

Nintendo DS R4

Bought an R4 card from r4ibuy.com and added the software following the instructions here http://www.r4isdhc.com/r4-download/  Happy gaming!