Since I like posting screeshots of uptime figures here is one of an anti-spam machine up for 1496 days (just over 4 years). The machine is running Red Hat 4.
Posts By: jonny
The Cost of Microsoft Windows 7
It’s free – it came with my computer Love them or hate them Microsoft are effective in business. One of their methods of peddling their product is to ensure that all dealers supply their product by default and bully the dealer if they try to supply a competitors product. When Dell hinted that they would… Read more »
Gimp and Pareto’s Principal
Pareto’s Principal, also known as the 80/20 rule, this principle holds that for any given event, 80% of the results come from 20% of the activity. For example, if you subscribe to Pareto’s Principle, then you probably believe that 8o% of the work in any organisation is performed by about 20% of the employees. This… Read more »
LAMP on Ubuntu
There are several different commands that can be used to install Apache and MySQL services with PHP support: sudo apt-get install tasksel && sudo tasksel sudo apt-get install lamp-server^ sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5 php5-cli php5-mysql php5-gd php5-mcrypt php5-curl mysql-client mysql-server libmysqlclient15-dev phpmyadmin For number two the carat at the end is important.
Visualising Social Networks like Facebook
I was asked to check out Gephi with the aim of visualizing Twitter and Facebook social networks. I installed Gephi on Ubuntu using the following (PPA): sudo apt-add-repository ppa:rockclimb/gephi-daily sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install gephi After installation visit the Tools > Plugins > Settings and enable the repositories. Then reload the catalog and install… Read more »
cPanel: Adding Apache and PHP Modules
I needed to add mysqli support to cPanel and did so by logging in to the WHM on port 2087 scrolling down the left menu to Software and clicking EasyApache (Apache Update) then followed the steps to recompile with my chosen options. Continuing with the default options were necessary and ticking MySQL Improved Extension This… Read more »
Ubuntu Background NASA Image of the Day
I just used the Python script located here and created getnasa.py in my home directory. I made it executable and added it to my System > Preferences > Startup Applications. Now I have a nice new NASA space image refreshed each day!
Camlough Lake Swim
A target for the same swim next year 1.75km as the crow flies but more like 2km: 28. Jonny McCullagh: 42.40
WordPress Upgrades and LDAPS
I have a WordPress installation which uses LDAP against Active Directory to authenticate users. I upgraded PHP to version 5.3.8 from version 5.1.6 (using the Atomic Repository) and also upgraded WordPress and the LDAP plugin. I’m not sure which upgrade caused me problems but users were then unable to login with their LDAP accounts. The… Read more »
Watercolor Action for Photoshop
I had been asked to create some watercolour versions of my holiday photos so I created the following action file for Photoshop (CS2). What does the action do? Creates 3 new dupliacte layers Layer 1 – Filter > Artistic > Cutout (with settings 4,4,2) Layer 1 Blend mode -> Luminosity Layer 2 – Filter >… Read more »
