Category linux

• MAY 20 2011

  '405 Not Allowed' error serving Facebook apps with nginx

  Filed under facebook, linux, nginx, and programming.

  How to get around '405 Not Allowed' errors when building basic Facebook pages with nginx... read more

• SEP 24 2010

  Security testing with Google's ratproxy

  Filed under apache, linux, osx, php, ratproxy, security, and zend.

  How to get up and running with ratproxy, and fix a few of the errors... read more

• SEP 14 2010

  SSH Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for directory

  Filed under linux, security, and ssh.

  A few tips on debugging SSH public key authentication problems... read more

• MAR 16 2010

  Compiling Nginx with flv streaming support on Ubuntu

  Filed under flash, flex, java, linux, nginx, programming, streaming, ubuntu, and web.

  A quick guide to compiling and installing nginx with flv streaming support on Ubuntu... read more

• MAR 06 2010

  sources.list For Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04

  Filed under apt-get, aptitude, linux, quickie, and ubuntu.

  I always have to go looking for this, so here it is... read more

• MAR 06 2010

  How to find out if Ubuntu is 32 bit or 64 bit

  Filed under linux and quickie.

  A quickie that i always forget.... read more

• FEB 14 2010

  Updating RubyGems on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

  Filed under git, linux, osx, programming, ruby, and version control.

  How to update RubyGems from v1.0.1 to v1.3.5 on OS X... read more

• FEB 14 2010

  Installing git-up on Ubuntu 8.10

  Filed under git, linux, programming, ruby, and version control.

  How to get git-up running properly on Ubuntu 8.10... read more

• NOV 18 2009

  nginx error - 413 Request Entity Too Large

  Filed under linux, nginx, programming, quickie, and web.

  How to increase the allowed file upload size in Nginx, and stop 413 Request Entity Too Large errors... read more

• NOV 12 2009

  Makefile - missing separator. Stop.

  Filed under linux, make, programming, and quickie.

  How to fix missing separator errors in Makefiles... read more

• AUG 10 2009

  Passing IPs to apache with nginx proxy

  Filed under apache, linux, nginx, programming, and web.

  How to configure Apache to pick up the correct IP address for logs etc, when requests are proxied from Nginx... read more

• AUG 10 2009

  Customize the Nginx server header

  Filed under linux, nginx, programming, and web.

  How to alter the 'server' header in Nginx... read more

• AUG 09 2009

  InnoDB as default MySQL table type

  Filed under database, innodb, linux, mysql, programming, and quickie.

  How to change the default MySQL table type... read more

• AUG 05 2009

  Flushing the DNS cache on OS X

  Filed under dns, linux, osx, quickie, and web.

  How to manually flush the DNS cache on OS X to force /etc/hosts changes to take effect... read more

• JUN 18 2009

  MySQL table 'is marked as crashed'

  Filed under database, linux, programming, and quickie.

  What to do if you are getting an error similar to 'mysqldump: Got error: 145: Table xxxxx is marked as crashed and should be repaired when using LOCK TABLES'... read more

• JUN 06 2009

  python 2.5 zipimport.ZipImportError on OS X

  Filed under linux, osx, programming, python, and quickie.

  How to get fix "zipimport.ZipImportError: can't decompress data; zlib not available" errors running python 2.5 on OS X... read more

• JUN 06 2009

  Python 2.5 "ImportError: No module named _md5" on OS X

  Filed under linux, osx, programming, python, and quickie.

  What to do if you are getting an "ImportError: No module named _md5" using Python 2.5 on OS X... read more

• JUN 06 2009

  HTTPSHandler error using python 2.5 and GAE on OS X

  Filed under linux, osx, programming, python, quickie, and web.

  How to fix "AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'HTTPSHandler'" errors running python 2.5 on OS X... read more

• JUN 02 2009

  Exclude tables from mysqldump

  Filed under database, linux, programming, and quickie.

  How to exclude certain tables from mysqldump... read more

• APR 29 2009

  'spec/rake/spectask' errors doing rake db:migrate

  Filed under linux, programming, quickie, ruby, and web.

  What to do if you get "no such file to load -- spec/rake/spectask_" errors running rake db:migrate... read more

• APR 29 2009

  Rename authors in a git repository

  Filed under git, linux, programming, and version control.

  How to change the author details in a remote git repository... read more

• APR 26 2009

  'Can't find Magick-config' error installing rmagick gem

  Filed under linux, programming, quickie, ruby, and web.

  How to fix a 'Can't find Magick-config' error when installing the rmagick gem... read more

• DEC 29 2008

  Styling Apache directory listings with mod_autoindex

  Filed under apache, linux, mod_autoindex, programming, and web.

  How to use Apache's mod_autoindex module to style directory listings... read more

• DEC 23 2008

  Nginx adds strange characters using rails/memcached_pass

  Filed under linux, memcached, nginx, programming, quickie, rails, ruby, and web.

  How to stop strange characters appearing when using rails, memcached and the nginx memcached_pass directive... read more

• DEC 21 2008

  Pylons - LookupError: Entry point 'main' not found in egg

  Filed under linux, programming, python, quickie, and web.

  How to fix 'LookupError: Entry point 'main' not found in egg' errors in Pylons... read more

• DEC 03 2008

  memcaches_page plugin for Rails

  Filed under linux, memcached, plugin, programming, rails, ruby, and web.

  A Rails plugin to cache entire pages to memcached, allowing you to use nginx to serve your site directly from memory... read more

• NOV 26 2008

  Gantt Calendar plugin for Trac

  Filed under linux, plugin, programming, python, and web.

  Adds Gantt chart and calendar functionality for Trac tickets... read more

• OCT 24 2008

  iTerm Delete Key Config

  Filed under linux, osx, programming, and quickie.

  Fix up peculiar delete key behaviour in OS X... read more

• SEP 17 2008

  Styling subversion listings with xslt

  Filed under linux, programming, version control, and web.

  How to style Apache Subversion listings using XSLT and the Apache SVNIndexXSLT directive... read more

• SEP 11 2008

  Rewrite Trac links to Redmine with nginx

  Filed under linux, programming, version control, and web.

  How to use nginx's 'rewrite' functionality to redirect trac-style links to redmine... read more

• AUG 17 2008

  Disable store links in iTunes 8

  Filed under linux, programming, version control, and web.

  How to turn off the store links in iTunes 8... read more

• JUL 27 2008

  Installing Trac on CentOS

  Filed under database, linux, programming, python, version control, and web.

  How to set up Trac and Subversion on CentOS... read more

• JUL 27 2008

  Filesystem path is neither a file nor a directory 160013 - SVN / Trac Error

  Filed under linux, programming, python, version control, and web.

  How to get around a 'Filesystem path .... is neither a file nor a directory' error with Trac and SVN... read more

• JUL 14 2008

  svn: Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error

  Filed under linux, programming, quickie, subversion, and version control.

  How to fix SVN 'Can't find a temporary directory: Internal error'... read more

• JUN 23 2008

  Setup 64bit CentOS (PHP5, MySQL, memcached, ketama)

  Filed under database, linux, php, programming, and web.

  A script to setup 64bit CentOS with PHP5, MySQL, memcached and ketama... read more

• JUN 23 2008

  Force MySQL Encoding to UTF8

  Filed under database, linux, mysql, programming, and web.

  How to force MySQL to use UTF8 encoding by default... read more

• JUN 23 2008

  Browser detection with PHP

  Filed under linux, osx, php, programming, and web.

  How to set up and use PHP's get_browser() function to detect client browsers... read more

• MAR 27 2008

  Subversion Server on CentOS

  Filed under linux, programming, subversion, version control, and web.

  How to set up a subversion server with apache and CentOS... read more

• JUL 25 2007

  Set OS X Default Shell

  Filed under linux, osx, programming, and quickie.

  How to change the default shell in OS X... read more

• JUL 25 2007

  OS X zsh shell config

  Filed under linux, osx, programming, and quickie.

  zsh shell configuration file for OS X... read more

• APR 02 2007

  Installing MySql/PDO for PHP

  Filed under database, linux, php, programming, and web.

  How to install PDO/MySql to fix Zend_Db_Adapter_Exception errors in Zend Framework... read more

• APR 02 2007

  Compile LibTorrent on OSX

  Filed under bittorrent, linux, osx, and programming.

  How to to compile libtorrent on OS X... read more

• MAR 27 2007

  Change the SSH login message

  Filed under linux, quickie, security, and ssh.

  How to customize your SSH login screen... read more

• MAR 22 2007

  Vi as default crontab editor

  Filed under cron, linux, osx, programming, and quickie.

  Change the default crontab editor... read more

• MAR 22 2007

  Stop cron emails

  Filed under cron, linux, quickie, security, and ssh.

  Stop annoying emails every time a cron job is run... read more

• MAR 08 2007

  Install Ubuntu SSH server

  Filed under linux, quickie, security, and ssh.

  Ubuntu Enterprise 6 doesn't seem to install sshd out-of-the-box... read more

• MAR 08 2007

  Configure Ubuntu w/ Static IP

  Filed under linux, quickie, security, and web.

  Ubuntu Enterprise 6 doesn't seem to give an option to enter a static IP during install if you have DHCP available... read more

• FEB 19 2007

  Installing Trac

  Filed under database, linux, programming, python, version control, and web.

  Trac can be a little tricky to install. Here's the steps that worked for me... read more

• FEB 18 2007

  Svn server w/ Apache

  Filed under database, linux, programming, subversion, version control, and web.

  A walk-through for setting up a subversion server hosted by http/apache... read more

• FEB 07 2007

  Cake actions from the terminal

  Filed under linux, php, programming, quickie, and web.

  How to call CakePHP actions from the command line... read more

• FEB 06 2007

  Find large folders

  Filed under linux and quickie.

  How to find the largest n folders on linux... read more

• JAN 02 2007

  Delete files by extension

  Filed under linux, programming, and quickie.

  How to recursively delete all files with a given extension on linux... read more

• DEC 31 2006

  Splitting up Django models

  Filed under django, linux, programming, python, and quickie.

  Django models are all grouped in one file by default. Here's how to split them up into logical groups... read more

• OCT 04 2006

  Shell coloring for iTerm

  Filed under linux, osx, programming, and quickie.

  Make iTerm easier to use with shell coloring... read more

• SEP 28 2006

  Recover Corrupted Svn DB

  Filed under database, linux, programming, quickie, subversion, and version control.

  How to recover your repository if you're getting 'Corrupted' error messages... read more

• SEP 27 2006

  Useful .bashrc Functions

  Filed under bash, linux, programming, and quickie.

  A couple of useful functions for .bashrc... read more

• SEP 27 2006

  Installing Subversion

  Filed under linux, programming, subversion, and version control.

  Subversion installation how-to... read more

• SEP 27 2006

  Get SVN Revision No.

  Filed under linux, programming, quickie, subversion, and version control.

  Simple one-liner for getting the svn revision number... read more

• SEP 26 2006

  Turn On Vi Syntax Coloring

  Filed under linux, programming, quickie, and vi.

  How to turn on vi syntax colouring on RedHat... read more

• AUG 18 2006

  Useful Vi Commands

  Filed under linux, programming, and vi.

  A bunch of useful Vi commands... read more

• AUG 17 2006

  Stop SSH and SFTP timeout

  Filed under linux, security, and ssh.

  Quick fix to stop SSH connections timing out... read more

• AUG 16 2006

  Opening a port on linux

  Filed under iptables, linux, and security.

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• AUG 15 2006

  Subversion Commands

  Filed under linux, programming, subversion, and version control.

  A bunch of useful subversion commands... read more