Recently, one of my friends who is a plumber in San Francisco, gave me an old PowerBook G4. Well, since I am not an Apple fan boy (sorry Apple fan boys), I’ve figured I can install Windows XP.
I ran into the big problem that Windows XP is not supported on a PowerPC CPU, ...
Tuaw has a great tutorial on how to install Ubuntu Linux on your Mac machine. This uses Sun’s VirtualBox, which essentially lets you install any kind of operating system. This is a great way to have another operating system under your main machine. Of course, this isn ...
For those of you who need to “resume” SCP file transfers that have been interrupted, there’s an easy way to resume them using rsync command.
Use this:
alias scpresume="rsync --partial --progress --rsh=ssh"
For Ubuntu or Debian add sudo:
alias scpresume="sudo rsy ...
I have a nice little Linux Ubuntu box I setup here in my apartment with a KVM switch but most of the time, I use command lines to SSH into my linux box.
When I am away from from home and I want to access my linux box, I can access it (SSH into it) using DDNS (dynamic DNS). This ...
It looks like Jesse Vincent has hacked an Amazon Kindle 2 to run a custom version of Ubuntu Linux! Well, the Kindle 2 does run on ARM, there’s a lot of linux software out there that’s running on ARM including the Palm Pre but this is pretty amazing indeed.
I could not ...
I have been using DDoS Deflate, which is a simple script that will automatically help you against DoS attacks on your server. Basically it works by killing any HTTPD processes/banning IPs that reach more than set number of TCP connections.
It’s a great script since itR ...
Here’s a simple script I made up that will auto restart your HTTPD service if it reaches a high load.
The script will actually stop your HTTPD server when your load is higher than the maximum load settings and will re-start when the load is back to zero.
If you are on a ser ...
I just noticed that my web server’s time was ahead by 10 hours for some reasons. If you run linux dedicated servers, you will want to know how to do this. I know there’s many ways to do it but this is the simplest/fastest method.
Here’s a really simple way t ...
Well, I am in the process of creating a local tunnel connection between two of my web servers from MediaTemple (thanks Eric for the help btw), I stumbled across this cool Linux DIY that shows you how to create an SSH Tunnel between two linux computers and share the internet via p ...
Well, one of the worst things you can encounter is to individually resize hundreds of images for a future blog post.
I am not sure if Windows or Macs have free software to do this but if you have access to a Linux computer like me, you can get stuff done much faster using Image M ...
