about 6 months ago - No comments
Sometimes you want to make minor changes to WordPress plugins that no body except your self would want. Then comes the issue of upgrading to new versions of the plugin. git-svn is the perfect tool for this. It has all the cool features of the distributed SCM git and ability to pull from subversion (and [...]
about 11 months ago - 4 comments
Update 2009-09-02: Now I’m using a single Linode and a Xen VPS from my very own hosting service. This means the VPSes have one more thing less in common, hosting company.
Until recently I used one Linode VPS for hosting all my sites. On 26th March, there was a DDoS attack on one of the Linode [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
I recently found this awesome project called KernelCheck that allows you to build the latest Linux Kernel for your distribution. It requires very little interaction from the user and automatically optimizes the kernel to user’s needs. Currently it only supports Debian based distributions but support for RPM and Slackware based distributions is planned. KernelCheck is [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
I bought a Avermedia PCI pure analog (M135A) recently (26th December) and to much to my delight it was just plug and play on my home media center running Debian testing with custom built Linux kernel 2.6.28 (Released on 24th December). TV tuner was working with no issues. All local TV channels we accessible [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
I was trying to print a large document, and it would never print. A small print job had no issues. To add to that I was printing a stupid PDF form that will only open with Acrobat Reader. The print job was passing through many places, VMWare guest, my notebook, and finally print server. I [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
Last Friday I got a 2nd connection for my home-office. Now I have 1Mbit/s WiMAX uplink from Dialog Broadband and 512Kbit/s (Soon will be upgraded to 1Mbit/s) WiMAX uplink from Lanka Bell.
I have setup one of my old PCs as the router. I couldn’t find a single router with multi-uplink here in Sri Lanka, but [...]
about 1 year ago - 7 comments
Monit is an open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit is capable of automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations. It takes less than 15 minutes to setup and run this wonderful tool on most Unix servers. It also [...]
about 1 year ago - 2 comments
Few hours ago I upgraded my Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10. Upgrade it self was a smooth one. Download took around 1.5 hours and the installation was around 45 minutes. Ubuntu 8.10 Human theme looks sexy. New wireless driver for Intel 3945ABG has support for the LED indicator as well.
Only issues were:
ALSA was locked while [...]
about 1 year ago - No comments
Ubuntu 8.10 named Intrepid Ibex will be released on 30th October 2008. I’m looking forward for the release tomorrow. I’ll be upgrading my machines to Ibex. New features in 8.10 are:
GNOME 2.24
X.Org 7.4
Linux kernel 2.6.27
Encrypted private directory
Guest session
Network Manager 0.7
Samba 3.2
PAM authentication framework
Totem BBC plugin
Server Virtualization
There is more, you can check out http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/810rc.
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about 1 year ago - No comments
I was given the task of altering a SVN commit message hook(mailer.py) to send the messages as the author. The box was running Debian Etch, looking at the mailer.conf file I couldn’t figure out how to do that. There was no documentation that I could find.
Finally after much head scratching and searching I figured out [...]