Posts By: jonny

Ripping Audio CDs with Asunder on Ubuntu

Asunder Rip audio CD

I had been using Sound Juicer on Ubuntu to rip Audio CDs to MP3 but looking for a bit more control (specifically over the bitrate) I had a play with Asunder: sudo apt-get install asunder Asunder will auto find the CDDB details for the CD to auto name the output files just like Sound Juicer:… Read more »

Mass delete bbpress spam posts

HeidiSQL Wordpress wp_posts

Having neglected a wordpress/bbpress installation for a bit I had the problem of dumping tens of thousands of spam and trash and pending items from bbpress. I took a look at the database: To get things done more quickly than using the web browser I deleted the items as follows. I created a php script… Read more »

Reset ntopng admin password

I had a comment on my recent Ntopng article from a user who needed to reset the admin password on ntopng. Ntopng uses redis as a backend data store. So first check that the redis server is actually running: netstat -luntap | grep redis You should get output similar to: tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:6379              0.0.0.0:*                  … Read more »

Acer Aspire Reboots on Ubuntu Shutdown

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 command as follows: sudo mv /sbin/shutdown /sbin/shutdown-default… Read more »

Munin Bootstrap Template: Munstrap

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 3.0.2) licensed under Apache License (and from bootstrap v 3.2 MIT license). The instructions… Read more »

ntopng on CentOS 6

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): [ntop] name=ntop packages baseurl=http://rpm.ntop.org/$releasever/$basearch/ enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://www.nmon.net/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-deri Install ntopng and dependencies: yum install pfring n2disk nProbe ntopng ntopng-data… Read more »

Installing Munin 2.x on Centos 6

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 the above file: htpasswd -cm /etc/munin/munin-htpasswd muninadmin New password: Re-type new password: Restart the munin-node service and ensure it starts on boot: /etc/init.d/munin-node start chkconfig… Read more »

Move Minimize, Maximize and Close Buttons 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 the Window Controls to the Left gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.wm.preferences button-layout ‘close,maximize,minimize:’ While I was at it I also made a few other customisations:… Read more »

gcp: Copy with a Progress Bar

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 /bin/cp-default ln -s /usr/bin/gcp /bin/cp Note: For a recursive… Read more »

Minecraft mcrcon and iconv for dodgy characters

I was using the mcrcon utility to retrieve performance statistics from a Minecraft server for use in Nagios: /opt/minecraft/mcrcon -c -H 192.168.1.111 -P 25575 -p “topsecret” list However the output included dodgy unrecognised � characters (see screenshot). To remove these characters from the output I converted with iconv to UTF-8 and was then able to… Read more »