Solaris 11 – Getting Started HowTo

Installing LAMP on Solaris 11 I'm writing this from the perspective of a naive Linux admin so I may not be doing everything right and I certainly don't address issues such as Zones, ZFS ... I just spent a few hours to get some basic services running on an old T2000... » More

Some Linux LPI 102 Exam Questions

I just passed my Linux LPI 102 exam today and thought I would try to remember a few of the 60 questions in case I ever have to take a refresher - here is about half of them. I can't remember the wording exactly for these questions so take with a pinch of... » More

Manage Multiple WordPress Sites

wordpress Remote I wanted a quick and cheap method to check multiple WordPress websites to see when they might need updated. I checked one or two solutions and then came across WP Remote Within minutes I had 9 sites defined including the FTP details to make updating... » More

Solaris: Service Console Commands

Fault finding and clearing at the Service Console the following commands may be useful: To gather info for a service request: sc> showfru sc> showsc sc> showhost sc> showlogs -v sc> showfaults... » More

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