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MySQL and SSL
2008-05-17 14:04:00 I have been setting up a few mysql servers with SSL support for replication . I used the script provided in the the official mysql documentation for creating the ssl certificates cause I needed to do it on more then one server and it made more sense to use it then actually creating each certificate one ... More About: Mysql
Problem transferring a mysql database with rsync
2008-05-05 11:51:00 A little more then a year ago I wrote a post presenting three different methods to transfer a mysql database. The third method suggested in that post was copying the mysql database files directly from one server ( or location ) to another. This involved locking the tables with a read lock or even shutting ... More About: Database , Problem , Mysql
Xml Sitemaps pligg module v0.9
2008-04-28 16:46:00 This one is a quick release just like the previous one that fixes just one thing. All previous versions had this problem that the urls were not urlencoded so those urls that contained special characters like those with an accent or diacritics were invalid and of course google would show an error on those sitemaps. Version 0.9 ... More About: Sitemaps , Module
Xml Sitemaps pligg module v0.9
2008-04-28 16:46:00 This one is a quick release just like the previous one that fixes just one thing. All previous versions had this problem that the urls were not urlencoded so those urls that contained special characters like those with an accent or diacritics were invalid and of course google would show an error on those sitemaps. Version 0.9 ... More About: General , Sitemaps , Module
Xml Sitemaps pligg module v0.8
2008-04-26 17:12:00 It seems my last version of the Xml Sitemaps module for pligg didn't really fixed the date format problem with the generated sitemaps. Back when this module was created google had less strict rules about the date format in the lastmod section. My module generated a date and time string with this format YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS and it ... More About: Module
wordpress 2.5.1
2008-04-26 16:42:00 I have just upgraded to wordpress 2.5.1. My upgrade routine worked well without any problem. The new release seems to bring a few bug fixes to some annoying issues and a security fix as well as some performance enhancements. Unfortunately the automatic plugin updater still fails at times and doesn't save the ftp password and the media ... More About: Wordpress
vim arrows in MacOSX
2008-04-25 17:51:00 I know vim gurus would criticize me for using arrows in vim's insert mode but it's really hard to give them up. I have this problem when I connect from my linux box to a Mac OSX or FreeBSD box over ssh. I find it one of the most annoying things when using vim. When you are ...
xml sitemap for pligg v0.7
2008-04-17 10:22:00 This is a quick fix for a bug introduced in a previous version because I tried to make it compatible with php4 date(). This bug may have made your sitemap invalid because the lastmod date contained the timezone between the date and time. This version also brings a new feature that could be useful for larger sites. The ... More About: Sitemap
MacOSX: Automount external drives at boot
2008-04-16 15:06:00 After spending about an hour trying to figure out why I can't mount disks from /etc/fstab in Mac OSX 10.4 I finally figured it out. MacOSX 10.4 ( and maybe lower ) doesn't use fstab anymore. Well not just fstab. The stupidest thing about this is that fstab is referenced in every man page related to ... More About: External , Boot
xml sitemap for pligg update v0.6
2008-04-15 19:01:00 Last year I have released a pligg module that creates XML sitemaps for better SEO. The module was tested and working on pligg 0.9.7. Since that time pligg was updated two times and is now at 0.9.9. In pligg 0.9.8 they removed the clear_cache function that the my module's install code was using to clear the ... More About: Update , Sitemap
change hostname on MacOSX
2008-04-14 16:28:00 here's a quick tip about how you can change the hostname on your Mac OSX and keep it changed after a reboot: scutil --set HostName your.server.name Of course you have to type that as root. It seems there is also possible to set in it /etc/hostconfig but that file on it's own will not work. You have ... More About: Change , Hostname
Permissions on HFS+ volumes
2008-04-10 15:18:00 This post will show you how to enable or disable permissions on a HFS+ volume and also how to check if a volume had the permissions enabled or not. By default when you create a HFS+ filesystem it will have the permissions/owners disabled. I'm using a macmini for backing up files from a linux system and ... More About: Mac , Volumes
How to create a dmg image
2008-04-09 14:58:00 In a previous post I showed you how to mount a .dmg image from the command line. Have you ever wondered how you can create such an image? Continue reading if you want to know. Let's assume you want to create an image with a size of 10Mb that is formatted with a case sensitive ... More About: Mac , Image , Create
Webmin pptp user synchronization
2008-04-09 01:32:00 Webmin has this great feature that it can add users in several modules when a system user is added ( of course only when added from webmin ). This feature can really be useful if you want for example to automatically add a system user to samba, mysql or other modules. In order for this to work ... More About: User , Synchronization
Proftpd: listen on single ip
2008-04-07 10:56:00 I don't use ftp, I always use sftp/scp/rsync over ssh or even a fuse remote filesystem for transferring files but wordpress 2.5 comes with this nice feature to upgrade plugins automatically from the web admin interface that needs ftp. the problem is I don't want to enable the ftp service and make it available to the ... More About: Listen , Single
MacOSX: adduser
2008-04-04 16:12:00 I really needed an adduser like program on Mac OSX and after a few searches on the internet I found a script that works like the linux adduser program. I remember I had to modify it to use bash ( my preferred shell ) as the default shell and I make it use the right path when ...
Upgraded wordpress to 2.5
2008-04-03 11:54:00 I have finally upgraded wordpress to 2.5. The old version was 2.3.1 ( yeah that old ) and the upgrade was pretty smooth. I didn't use plugins like instant upgrade for this upgrade but I'm thinking of using for the next upgrades. How did I do it? I have my own method for this. It's very similar to ... More About: Wordpress
Firefox 3 beta 5 released
2008-04-03 01:02:00 Mozilla released the 5'th beta of the Firefox 3 browser a few hours ago. The new beta brings enhancements in the bookmark organizer, operating system integration and most important to me the speed in the javascript engine that so many sites depends on these days. There are just 750 improvements since the last beta version, 250 fewer ... More About: Beta , Firefox 3 , Released
Connect to MacOSX over vnc
2008-03-31 12:34:00 One of the first unpleasant surprises I had when I first tried Mac OSX was that I couldn't connect to it using standard vnc clients available for linux like realvnc or tinyvnc. I was actually able to connect but after the authentication the client would just hang. I guess the protocol used by apple is a ... More About: Connect
Mount .dmg images from command line
2008-03-28 13:40:00 DMG images are the way that a lot of Mac OSX binary packages are distributed. They are somehow like virtual hard disk images or .iso images that you can just mount with a simple double click if you have access to the gui. But how do you do that from the command line? quick answer: hdiutil attach image.dmg and ... More About: Images , Line , Command , Mount
MacOSX case sensitivity
2008-03-26 13:17:00 I just got the biggest slap from Mac OSX. Yes, I was punished for my ignorance. I had not idea that the HFS filesystem defaults to case insensitive. I thought it would be case sensitive like in Unix but no. When I first saw it I didn't believe it. The first clue was when I ran mysql_install_db ... More About: Case
MacOSX for Unix admins
2008-03-25 12:27:00 I'm going to write some posts about doing stuff on Mac OSX. I'm a beginner mac user and I come from a Unix background. I use/administrate/patch/develop on Unix like machines ( mostly just Linux and FreeBSD ) on a daily basis. Since MacOSX has Unix at it's roots using it shouldn't be hard for me to work with ...
realtek 8180 on kernel 2.6.23
2007-10-19 09:31:00 To make RealTek 8180 wireless cards work in Linux you need the open source drivers from rtl8180-sa2400. Actually this driver supports more realtek cards not just 8180, you can get the list of supported devices from their homepage. The only problem with those drivers is that they are a bit outdated. They were initially build ... More About: Realtek , Kernel
Explicitly ignorant in Unix
2007-10-01 21:11:00 I'm working on a patch for antinat, to make it do some cool/weird stuff that it can't do at the moment. In case you're wondering antinat is a great implementation of a socks server. It supports socks4, socks5 with user/password authentication, accept/reject acls based on user or ip, easy configuration in an XML file ... More About: Unix
Weekend?s piece of shell magic
2007-09-22 20:40:00 A few days ago I wrote a post about setting up squid as an anonymous proxy using multiple ips. That setup would basically make squid listen for connections on certain ips and will create outgoing connections ( for fetching the requested page ) from the same ip that received the connection. The setup, as described ... More About: Magic , Weekend , Shell , Piece
How to buy blogrush credits
2007-09-21 15:17:00 I seems some bloggers trust blogrush so much that they bet their money on it. Yesterday I was looking over my blog and I noticed this ad showing in one of the adsense boxes: "Get Awesome Traffic Results with new Blog Rush. Free...Fast" It seems someone registered the domain blog-rush.ws and placed a 302 redirect to ... More About: Credits
Hidden Affiliate Links update version 0.2
2007-09-19 12:13:00 After the first release of the Hidden affiliate Links plugin some bloggers wanted to know if this plugin would be able to automatically replace some keywords in posts and turn them into affiliate links. John Chow bought a plugin for wordpress that does something like that from DealDotCom (yes it's an afiliate link and it was ... More About: Affiliate , Update , Version
BlogRUSH statistics Working!
2007-09-18 22:14:00 I just went to check my blogRush account and after login I was presented with a nice looking dashboard showing the number credits I have earned, the number of members I have referred, and how many credits I got from them. It shows how many of those credits were consumed and they ... More About: Statistics , Working , Workin
Hidden Affiliate Links Wordpress Plugin
2007-09-18 16:01:00 This post is about a wordpress plugin that will help you to manage your hidden affiliate links a lot easier then what others have suggested. If you don't know why you should hide the affiliate links then continue reading, but if you already know this then skip to the plugin part of the post. One of ... More About: Wordpress , Affiliate , Links , Plugin , Hidden
More on BlogRush
More articles from this author:2007-09-17 14:42:00 I got an email early in the morning ( 8:28 GMT+2 ) from John Reese, founder of BlogRush . The message was sent to all blogrush members and it explains some of the problems with the system and it also tries to explain other things like why there are no reports yet ( under development ... 1, 2, 3 |
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