Installing Beryl and The Latest Linux NVidia Drivers
I finally kicked my 64 bit install to the curb and am now running my AMD 64 desktop box in 32 bit mode. I decided that I had had enough of random crashes and...
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Fun with ANSI escape codes
For fun I recently pimped out a ruby script that I had written for some testing with a little color and a spinner. If you have never used ANSI escape codes b...
How to compile ImageMagick for PHP by hand
Some time ago I was looking at how to re-size uploaded images in a way that looks good using PHP. I was impressed that when I uploaded a 4M picture to flickr...
Fedora Core 6 on a Laptop
So after doing my yum upgrade from FC5 to FC6 on a desktop I decided to see if it worked any better than FC5 on my old Dell Inspiron 600m laptop. FC5 wasn’t ...
Upgrade FC5 to FC6 with yum
Now that Fedora Core 6 is available it is time to upgrade those old crusty FC5 installs. To upgrade from FC5 you can follow these steps:
DNS Black List Checker
At work we have been using DNS Black Lists for a long time to deny spam coming into our email systems. There are a number of places you can check to see if y...
Using fetchmail and procmail for maildir style storage from a pop3 account
For the longest time having POP3 messages stored in one large file bothered me. I found out however that you can easily convert the single file storage into ...
Lighty XCache for PHP
I noticed Lighty XCache when it came out a few months ago. I like EAccelerator myself but now there is an admin console for XCache that looks pretty nice.
How to map URLs with PHP and lighttpd
On a number of occasions I’ve wanted to map a section of a site hosted with lighttpd onto a single PHP file that could then be used as a controller. Here is ...
Xen on a Mac mini
A few days ago I read this article on how to put Xen on a Mac mini and though of the Mac mini colo. Now you can get even more machines into the same small ar...