I like to wait quite a while before upgrading Mac OS X to the newest release because, for me, it often requires quite a bit of work. I had hopes that Snow Leopard would be different because Apple finally installed current versions of the whole LAMP stack, but I wanted to wait regardless… just in …
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Backups to Amazon S3 the Easy Way
I was looking for a simple solution to backup my newly constructed server to an off-site location in case something were to happen. I don’t mean I lost a file… more like catastrophic hardware failure, fire, water damage, physical damage, and even theft!. Local backups really are best, and I don’t plan on abandoning them …
What’s your Fortune?
Here’s a fun little thing you can do for your next site goodie: display your users’ “fortunes” from the command-line interface, CLI, application Fortune. On Fedora, install: % sudo yum install fortune-mod from PHP (fortune.php) <pre> <? passthru(‘fortune’); ?> </pre> I pre-formatted the text because it comes out looking as it does in the CLI. …
SEO your URL
If you’re looking for some help on learning mod_rewrite, this post isn’t for you. sorry. Instead, I’m going to show you a neat little trick that will make sure you always have one the www in front of your domain name. Why is it important? Potentially for your stats package, definitely for search engine ranking …
Fedora FC5 black screen install woes – FIX
Here’s a quick post for those having difficulties installing Fedora Core 5 (FC5) on systems with ATI cards. Our new 80 node cluster install at the DFL is just about finished. I get two Dell PowerEdge 1425s all to myself for web stuffs. First order of business: ditch RedHat Enterprise Linux. I need cutting-edge software. …
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Export Evolution contacts data to Apple Mail
It was bound to happen – I finally got a Mac at work for most of the web/media authoring I do. It’s important for me to at least be able to send email (i.e. attachments) without having to go an extra step by copying things like PSD and movie files over to linux just so …
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SSH Tunnel for Samba Shares
German (my coworker and friend) posted something a while ago which I am now finding pretty useful: http://eichberger.de/2006/01/ssh-tunnel-smb-for-mac-os-x.html Note that this post is oriented toward those with macs, but the same should work on other *nix systems with a few minor modifications. Why do I need this? Well, I’m still on the campus network, but …
Caching HTML Output with Smarty
I’ve begun using the Smarty template engine for my projects requiring dynamic content – you know, the good ol’ MVC (model-view-controller) approach to (web) applications. Because the sites I work on aren’t particularly high-traffic, I never really thought too hard about caching… until I actually began thinking about caching. The question is “why not?”. With …
Adding a new hard drive to a Linux system
Time came to add a second hard disk to my workstation. I didn’t need a whole lot – just another 250GB for backup and extra storage space until the new workstation arrives later this summer. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to get the new disk in and running on you linux box. Once the …
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Installing AWStats on Fedora (FC4) with Apache virtual hosting
While the exact distribution probably doesn’t matter too much, some steps are pertinent only to Fedora (i.e. the Yum install). Honestly, follow the instructions in the awstats documentation closely and you should be fine. My point here is to point-out some of the finer details. First step, install AWStats as root: % sudo yum install …
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