I was trying to shutdown an old solaris box with:shutdown nowObviously not the right thing to do as I got output similar to this:Shutdown started. Mon Oct 19 11:58:55 BST 2009Broadcast Message from root (pts/1) on apu Mon Oct 19 11:58:55...The... » More
I needed to ensure that within a rather large directory structure any directory named 'intranet' was only accessible by internal IP addresses. Although from a security perspective this is not truly intranet it can help protect some... » More
I wanted to try out Real Player on a radio station stream so ...Visit: http://www.real.com/linuxClick the Deb download link and Open with the GDebi Package Installer as prompted.The installer may pause so click the 'Terminal' arrow and type 1 then press... » More
I decided to have a play installing Easy Peasy on the 7" eeepc I borrowed from my sister.Setting it up was quite easy:1. Download the iso (at a whopping 800Mb)2. Download the helper script, make it executable and run it3. Choose the iso and specify a USB... » More
I used this shell script to search through some web directories for references to particular strings - just for future reference.The find command only greps in html, php and pdf files: the -o switch is an OR.... » More
This shell script is for future reference. Used to copy zip apache log files into a temporary directory by day/month. Log files are unzipped and then searched for the strings we are looking for. It could be tidied... » More
Not all crawlers obey all of these rules but as a reference point. The crawl delay is the number of seconds between requests and the newer request-rate is set here to not more than 1 every 5 seconds. The crawlers are also asked to visit during the... » More
I was testing authentication against Active Directory (LDAP) using Apache 2. The following worked for me in a .htaccess file but only after adding:LDAPVerifyServerCert Offin the main httpd.conf file. I presume this is related to the server name in the... » More
Having a look at Windows 7 and coming from using Ubuntu solidly for the last 4 years I find it just as irritating as Vista - but I need to give it a bit more time to form an unbiased opinion.From a personal perspective there are some things I prefer for... » More
