The configuration directive below is one I used to protect multiple URLs with a htpasswd file. So match (~) /url01/ or (|) /url02/ or (|) .... <Location ~... » More
The version of Bind in the normal Red Hat / CentOS repositories is a little out of date. To get more up-to-date versions (9.7.4 at the time of writing) use the Centalt and EPEL repositories. Create the following file: vi... » More
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 Linux/Ubuntu although there is a Windows tool available too. Useful for... » More
I was helping someone with some jQuery to read XML files of Shakespeare plays and this is what I came up with. Very incomplete but he so I can reference it in future.... shaXpeare... » More
Creating customised content based on the origin country of your website visitors requires installing the mod_geoip module for Apache and also the MaxMind GeoIP database as follows (on CentOS): mkdir ~/geoip cd ~/geoip wget... » More
So I wanted to create screenshots of my HTC Hero Android phone from my Ubuntu desktop. So I ... downloaded and extracted the android sdk to e.g. ~/programs cd into the ./tools directory run the ./android program Install any version specific... » More
Armed with a few RPMs I need to install on multiple machines and sick of SCP'ing files around machines I decided to set up a Yum repository. Here's how: On a machine that already has Apache running and serving content: yum install createrepo cd... » More
There is a web page created by someone else containing figures I would like to use to draw some graphs in Munin. The HTML in that page is a bit ugly and looks like: <TR ALIGN = "Center"> <TD ALIGN = "Left" WIDTH = "49%" BGCOLOR =... » More
Todays installment in the Adventures of Squid Sandwich: Forwarding loop detected WARNING: Forwarding loop detected for: in /var/log/squid/cache.log Since I am using a DansGuardian sandwich with Squid for bread I set the unique_hostname... » More
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 shown in the screen below the minilogd process is using all the swap... » More
