On the fly compression of a tar-ball or mysqldump
Just to jot it down lest I forget: Tar’ing the local directory and streaming the tarball straight to gzip: tar cvf - . | gzip > target.tar.gz MySQLdump’ing directly to gzip: ...
Category Archives: code
[SOLVED] qlikView installation on Windows 7 – installation error
You may encounter the following error on installation: Installation ended prematurely because of an error when trying to install 32-bit or 64-bit qlikView on Windows 7. With or without UAC (User Acces ...
End of life for Ubuntu versions
In the story relating to release upgrades for Ubuntu, below the end-of-life table for the Ubutu Releases from the Ubuntu Wiki – just to have it all in one place; I’m only including the LTS ...
VMWare console and Firefox 3.6.6 – Workaround
As the VMWare plugin does not work with Mozilla‘s Firefox 3.6.6 – and as it cannot launch a virtual machine console – you’ll have to use a workaround. This post results from th ...
IOL with some issues?
IOL – the online offering of Independent Newspapers – seems to have issues — only two stories show up – one about Nigeria reversing their ban on its soccer team (and announcing ...
Firefox 3.6.6 Crash Protection – crashing?
Is it just me or is the new version of Crash Protection which pushed itself via a new release of Firefox up to 3.6.6 marking every instance of Flash as crashed? On the one hand, this may be a little s ...
Create a Tar file from Directory and all Subdirectories
It’s a simple one-liner that one tends to forget (that is, one that I forget as I untar more than I manually tar). So creating a tar file from directory and all subdirectories is as simple as ta ...
Secure SSH Tunneling – at no extra cost
Assuming you have a Windows machine and you interact with Linux boxen at any stage, chances are high that you have used and interacted with PuTTY at one stage or another. That beautiful, less than 2 s ...
Upgrade and update WordPress without the FTP/FTPS options
You may not have FTP or FTPS running on your server (either by choice or decision). In order to manage that, there is a simple workaround you can implement. ...
WordPress 3.0 is out!
Just a quick note – remember to upgrade now! But you knew that already! 🙂 218 people helped fixing the 1217 bugs, with a new default theme called Twenty Ten and a whole lot more. ...
[SOLVED] phpSysInfo – failed to open stream on Ubuntu 10.04?
phpsysinfo eval : 2 Message : parse_ini_file(/usr/share/phpsysinfo/data/distros.ini): failed to open stream: No such file or directory File There is a simple fix for this in version 3.0.5: ...
[SOLVED] mysql-server5.1.5.141-3ubuntu12.1 hangs on upgrade
There are a lot of words about the MySQL upgrade on Ubuntu 10.04 (64 bit specifically, perhaps the 32bit version too?) — it just hangs: You get the hopeful message: Preparing to replace mysql-se ...
Adobe Flash and Adobe PDF zero-day critical vulnerability in the wild.
From Adobe‘s advisory: A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.45.2 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, and the authplay.dll comp ...
MongoDB – the best features of Document Databases, RDBMSs and key-value stores – and PHP
MongoDB has been around for a while now, with the current version of production-level code at 1.4.3. Full integration to PHP is available via PECL, across platforms, or precompiled binaries. And yes, ...
Symlinks (symbolic links) in Samba Ubuntu for Windows
To enable symlinks in Samba for filesharing across platforms inWindows, modify /etc/smb/samba.conf and add in the [global] section: follow symlinks = yes unix extensions = no There has been some discu ...
Samba cheat sheet – Ubuntu
Samba. Whopping goodness. Here are a few notes that help in the setup – from user creation, to directory settings etc This blog post contains a few lessons learnt and thus by extension a migrati ...
Upgrade your Ubuntu Distro from the Command Line – Server or Desktop
What release / version are you running? cat /etc/lsb-release or cat /etc/issue But you knew that already — to upgrade the version of the Ubuntu installation you have is quite simple – just ...
Install Webmin on Ubuntu
Just a quick note (as I keep forgetting, and a cut-and-paste solution is a quicker time to market) – but you knew that already. Installing Webmin is quite simple (download directly, or from the ...
Security Summit 2010 Wrap-Up
So the Security Summit 2010 has come to an end. Featuring speakers such as Moxie Marlinspike, Joe Grand and Jeremiah Grossman (again), it’s a pity to say that there wasn’t much new that wa ...
Testing POP3 and IMAP servers from the command line in CMD or bash
It’s quite simple, really: POP3 (Exchange, dovecot etc) you know, IMAP (Exchange, dovecot, courier etc) you know — so this is just a recap, right? You know how to telnet into the machine & ...