Introduction This is a quick summary of guidelines of how to learn a programming language using perl as the example. It is meant for people who are brand new to programming and developing on unix systems. There is nothing in here about version control, or agile or working in large groups or any of the …
I try to keep things simple and inexpensive. Instead of paying for backups I roll my own. Now I do pay for network bandwidth so now I have to make sure I keep the network usage to a minimum. My simple website backup solution is as follows Use rsync to backup the important files from …
Why I switched I recently switched to a new hosting provider. I chose https://www.digitalocean.com. These are the reasons: It give me twice as much ram and disk space for half the price. It uses SSD drives It has a simple, clean, responsive interface. (very important) root access private IP address. No internal IP address pointing …
I noticed in my log files a large amount of calls to wp-cron.php. The following site provides a useful discussion of this event. http://www.lucasrolff.com/wordpress/why-wp-cron-sucks/ The instructions at the site provided above explain how to use cPanel to enable cron. But what if you don’t have cPanel? I run a site where I have root access …
Introduction SSH tunnelling has been around for years and there are plenty of discussions and how-to’s on the internet that explain the process, the mechanism and anything else about it. This is my small and humble explanation and demonstration. Lets say you have a Linux ( or any *nix) server and you want to access …
The reason for moving WordPress from fedora to another OS is that other operating systems have longer support for patches and I am tired of doing a full upgrade every 6 months to a year just to pull in critical patches. This should reduce my maintenance load and increase my security since the new OS …
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I gave up on gnome3. I couldn’t make the gnome3 work for me and I did not want to use something that was not supported. I could use a fork of gnome2 but way back in the day when I first met gnome3 and ran away screaming I also found the Xfce desktop and window …
I bought a Belkin N450DB Wireless Router It seems to be working OK and overall i am quite satisfied with it. However, one day I noticed that there were a few thousand DNS lookups to heartbeat.belkin.com. I tried to figure out why my router was making DNS lookups to this site. I could find nothing …
Information Technology and fundamental Infrastructure Databases I’m sure a whole book can be written on subject Infrastructure Databases and but I want to keep this short and simple. First some definitions: Assets and Infrastructure databases An infrastructure asset is a component that has monetary value. Servers, workstations, switches, cables, and people are examples of infrastructure …
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I have had this website set up for a while now. Since day one I have perused the logs to see the activity but I never really had the time to correlate some of the activity. Well, I just wrote a some scripts to grab the data, put it into a database and use the …