Linux
Linux Format Reader Awards 2006
The Linux Format magazine is having it’s annual reader awards in a number of categories. These include (I’ve include my picks after each category): Best Desktop Application (Gnome) Best Distro (CentOS 4.
Christmas Present
I got a lovely christmas present today, and well it’s so me. And knowing the person in question, I’m assuming he got it from Think Geek. Thanks Andrew. View
Further to the FireFox debugger problem
Installing the current version of Firefox 1.07 directly of course fixed my debugging problem. However, Firefox has now released 1.5 Available here. The problem is the debugger 0.9.85 is not supported in FireFox 1.
Change MP3 bitrate encoding for a MP3 audio file
Get Lame from http://lame.sourceforge.net/ $ su – $ cd /src $ wget http://optusnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/lame/lame-3.96.1.tar.gz $ tar xvfz lame-3.96.1.tar.gz $ cd lame-3.96.1 $ ./configure $ make $ make install $ lame –help
Mount Window Share under Linux with Samba
First check what shares are available for your Windoze Box (in this case it is at 192:168.100.36 with a login of and a password of ) $ smbclient -L 192.168.100.36 -U $ mkdir /mnt/
Installing Samba
Running on CentOS 4.1 the following steps were use to install Samba. Install RPM’s $ rpm -ivh samba-3.0.10-1.4E.i386.rpm $ rpm -ivh samba-swat-3.0.10-1.4E.i386.rpm Start Processes $ /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start Check Processes $ ps -ef | grep smb
Password protecting Apache Site for external users only
In order to make an intranet an extranet, you need to place the intranet on a server in the DMZ. From here, configure a virtual server accordingly (e.g. intranet.site.com.au) You will need to configure on an internal DNS (or smoothwall /etc/hosts when using a webproxy) a reference to intranet.
Moving from standard Apache httpd install to virtual hosts
First you need to create an appropiate directory for virtual host. (Using the example of creating an intranet) $ su – $ useradd intranet $ chmod 755 /home/intranet # needed for apache nobody process
Configuring SSH for automated rsync
In order to rsync files between two servers in an automated sense, you need to setup an appropiate SSH key between both the source and destination servers. Destination Server $ cd
Throttling the CPU on my laptop
Using CentOS 4.1 as the Operating System on my laptop for all my work, I’ve been able to throttle down my CPU when running on battery power to extend my battery life, much like the modes that Windoze provides.
Dell 5150 Wireless under CentOS 4.0
Download ndiswrapper from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ Install make make install lspci lspci -n Identify and download Windows Driver. http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/List # Laptop: Dell Inspiron 5100 Card: Wireless 1350 (802.11b/g) WLAN miniPCI Card
Dell 5150 64MB DDR nVidia Corporation GeForce FX Go 5200 under CentOS 4.0
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7174/README.txt Directly following the Fedora Core 3 installation I had to get the video to work. Therefore, at boot time, I went into the grub config file by pressing “e”
Web Site Log Analysis options
Analog www.analog.cx Report Magic for Analog www.reportmagic.org WebStats for Analog & Report Magic patsplanet.com/software/webstats AWStats awstats.sourceforge.net Webalizer www.mrunix.net/webalizer wwwstats http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/ WUsage www.boutell.com/wusage/ (Free Trial, has cost)
Development Software Suite As At 26 June 2004
Java J2SDK 1.4.2_4 http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html Tomcat 5.0.25 http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi JSTL 1.1 http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/standard-doc/intro.html MySQL 5.0.20 http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.0.html Apache HTTP 2.0.49 http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi PHP 4.3.7 http://www.php.net/downloads.php PHPMyAdmin 2.5.7 http://www.phpmyadmin.net/ Eclipse 3.0 http://eclipse.org/downloads/index.php Eclipse 3.0 was released today.