Linux

Using a screen expanding to two monitors was always easy until I installed the proprietary NVIDIA drivers.

The default installation of snmpd in Debian 6 Squeeze will put warnings into the daemon.log.

If you need details about whats going on within your MySQL instance, the query log is very useful, even though it’s not recommended for permanent use, due to the performance impact and disk space consumption.

I recycled an old script I used several years ago to automatically generate an ISO image from selected subfolders. The idea is, that the content is written to CD/DVD archive as soon as the total capacity passes the media’s limit.

Ubuntu announced to discontinue packaging of Sun/Oracle’s Java for Ubuntu, because Oracle changed the licensing.

Please be careful with upgrades on these packages, since it may drop your Java installation on the system, not only the browser plug-in.

In newer releases of OpenSSH it’s almost as easy as ProFTPD’s DefaultRoot to restrict a user to the home folder. You no longer need to setup a full chroot environment including copies/links to essential libraries etc.

Today it was time for a release upgrade of a LAMP node from Debian Lenny to Squeeze.

I prepared a 3G Router with failover to the 3G WAN via USB Stick in case the main DSL Uplink fails. The router has no option to pass a PIN to the available Huawei E1550, even though the mode is supported in general.

Since I wanted to downsize my application to simple blogging and the advantages of the updating process impressed me, I am now preparing the switch from Drupal 6 to WordPress 3.

After the SQL-based content migration and testing on an internal site, it’s now live on http://shellack.de/blog.

I recently updated a ProFTPD at version 1.3.2a to 1.3.3c and realized that failed logging of actions will now quit the FTP connections.