I am using Ubuntu 12.10 but with Gnome Fallback session rather than Unity. I was testing out Python by creating a little program to notify if the input year was a leap year or not. I found Ninja IDE useful but had to Edit > Preferences and set the... » More
To create a custom keyboard layout for Oolite on Ubuntu: mkdir -p /home/jonny/.Oolite/AddOns chown -R jonny:jonny /home/jonny/.Oolite gedit ~/.Oolite/AddOns/keyconfig.plist Download the Key Config tool extract it, open the web page and... » More
A little script to send a backup file to a remote FTP server: #!/bin/bash HOST='123.111.123.111' USER='bak_user' PASSWD='OpEnSeSaMe' TODAY="$(date +"%Y%m%d")" FILENAME=Hostname_$TODAY.tgz cd /var/backup/sched/ ftp -n -v $HOST <<... » More
I wanted a custom IPTables firewall chain to allow SSH access to a machine. The idea is that users hit a web page that adds their dynamic IP address to a list and then a script inserts that IP address into IPTables to allow SSH access. I achieved this... » More
On our Oracle Sun x4150's the Hardware Raid can be checked after installing the StorMan software which is available (as StorMan-6.40.x86_64.rpm) in the software bundle for x4150s available after logging in to the Oralce support website and locating... » More
The following created an SSH tunnel from my local desktop port 8181 to a remote server port 8181 on which Squid was running so I could point my browser to local port 8181 and the web browsing traffic would be sent over an encrypted connection: ssh -f... » More
When moving a radius service from one machine to another I had to do the following: On the first machine bring down the IP address: ifconfig eth0 down On the new machine, create a file for the new IP address: vi... » More
I needed to configure Bind today to use www.nicedomain.com and nicedomain.com (without the www) and I managed it adding the following into the zone file: @ IN A ... » More
Install SNMP Service Under Server Manager choose 'Add Features'. Add the SNMP Service (and telnet client too if you're interested). Configure the SNMP strings from Administrative Tools > Services. Right-click on the SNMP service and choose... » More
Fast running out of space on a Windows 2008 server. The problem folder was c:\Windows\system32\winsxs at 14.2 GB usage. The following clean-up command should help by removing service-pack packages which have been superseded: DISM.exe /online... » More
I am using Ubuntu 12.10 but with Gnome Fallback session rather than Unity. I was testing out Python by creating a little program to notify if the input year was a leap year or not. I found Ninja IDE useful but had to Edit > Preferences and set the... » More
