Generating Checksums on Solaris 9/10
Just the other day, I was needing to generate checksums of files and compare them through a shell script; useful when you want to know when a file has been changed without comparing what has been...
View ArticleForcing PHP to Display Errors for Debugging
Sometimes when doing some development from a subdirectory of a domain (that does not affect the main application), it would be useful to have errors displayed to the screen, but not enabling on a...
View ArticleTerminal Entry Overlapping Resolved
Have you ever typed into the terminal, through an SSH session and the text overlaps the same line and causes you to lose track of what you were typing? This is so frustrating and has everything to do...
View ArticleCompression: Using the zip Command in Linux
So, the other day I needed to compress some files on a Linux system to make available to a customer. Most end users don’t know how to uncompress .tar, .gz, .bz2, etc formats on a Windows system. Even...
View ArticleUbuntu: PHP Not Rendering When Using user_dir (public_html)
The other day I wanted to set up my Ubuntu Desktop to use the mod_userdir module so that I (and other users) could use our home directories as a personal development system for testing code, etc. This...
View ArticleMySQL: Placing the Whole MySQL System into read-only Mode
The other day I had to push some updates to a production instance from our staging instance, but this was during the busy time of the day. This change was critical, as it was resolving an issue that...
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Mac: Dock Taking Up 100% CPU After 10.6.8 Update
Are you one of the lucky ones that upgraded your OSX software from 10.6.x to 10.6.8 and noticed a decrease in battery life, only to realize that your Dock application is eating up 100% of your CPU? If...
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Installing Nagios Core on Arch Linux
Nagios, which is also known as Nagios Core (this is the community version) allows you to monitor virtually any system, application, service, and/or business processes and alert you (or your team) when...
View ArticleRHEL: /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/slaves: No such file or directory
The other day I came across the following error: [user@host]# service network restart Shutting down interface eth0: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown-eth: line 91:...
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How To Disable Google Chrome’s Sync Notifications
Today, I installed a plugin from the Google Chrome Store and noticed that I had a new shiny icon in my Menu Bar (OSX, for those Windows users reading this). It was a little “bell” that was very...
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