Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
I have just installed Cacti on a new FreeBSD 6.3 machine that I've been playing with, and the latest version from ports seems to be broken, displaying the error "Invalid PHP_SELF Path" when I browse to it with a web browser.
A Google search reveals that it seems to be a ...
Posted in Cacti/RRDTool, Software, Operating Systems, FreeBSD | No Comments »
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
[Insert IMHO disclaimer] This is quite possibly the worst reason for doing anything, ever:
(From the GNU su man page)
22.5.1 Why GNU su does not support the "wheel" group
(This section is by Richard Stallman.)
Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the rest. For example, ...
Posted in Security, GNU, Internet, Linux, Operating Systems, Rambling | 3 Comments »
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
I've always found Internet traffic trends fascinating, especially when they're out of the "ordinary". One of the main sites I look after has a peak on Monday-Tuesday followed by a 50% reduction in traffic over the weekend. This changes when one of two events occur -- a Holiday/three-day-weekend, and over ...
Posted in Traffic, Web servers, Internet, Cacti/RRDTool, Software | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
I'm not sure exactly why but it appears that Ubuntu hasn't yet included Pidgin (formerly GAIM) in their package repository just yet. I have been running Pidgin for a while on Ubuntu (version 2.0, installed from a .deb I found floating around online) but I've been itching to upgrade for ...
Posted in Software, Pidgin, Tips and Tricks, Ubuntu, Linux, Operating Systems | No Comments »
Saturday, August 25th, 2007
After the death of the hard disk in my laptop this week, I thought I would use it as an opportunity to upgrade my laptop to the latest Ubuntu release, Feisty. I've always found Gnome a bit sluggish on my 1.2GHz "sub-notebook" Samsung Q30, so this time I opted to ...
Posted in Adobe Acrobat Reader, Mozilla Firefox, Software, Tips and Tricks, Linux, Ubuntu, Operating Systems | No Comments »
Friday, August 17th, 2007
Today I installed and configured FreeBSD 6.2 on a Soekris Engineering net5501 (which was purchased by mail order from Yawarra Information Appliances in Victoria, who have been very helpful). It will be functioning as an office firewall/gateway. This particular unit has a 433MHZ AMD Geode Integrated Processor and 256MB of ...
Posted in Embedded systems, VMWare, Software, Tips and Tricks, Operating Systems, Hardware, FreeBSD | 2 Comments »
Monday, August 13th, 2007
I've just created a blog aggregator just for SysAdmin blogs - check it out at planetsysadmin.com. You can also subscribe to the feed at http://planetsysadmin.com/atom.xml.
Please feel free to recommend any other SysAdmin related blogs that you know of - just leave a comment here and I'll be sure to ...
Posted in Planet SysAdmin, Planet Feed Reader, Blogging, Internet, Software | 15 Comments »
Sunday, August 12th, 2007
UPDATE 14-Aug-07: I don't use this theme any more (didn't take long, I know). I found a theme that I think suits this blog much better. :)
I've just updated the WordPress theme I [used to] use for this blog (Modern, by Ulf Pettersson) to make use of Dynamic Sidebar's in ...
Posted in Themes, WordPress, Software | 2 Comments »
