Thoughts on KDE 4.4
KDE 4.4 released! It makes a few good improvements, but still has a bit of way to go.
Wierd errors when running Nagios3
While setting up Nagios3 I got this error: (Return code of 127 is out of bounds – plugin may be missing). I couldn’t understand what it was because I could run check_nrpe manually from the CLI and other plugins (link check_ping) worked fine. After a lot of looking around it turns out (atleast in Gentoo) [...]
Unmerging several packages using wildcards
Easy as pie (once you know it):
cd /var/db/pkg/; emerge -Ca */*PACKAGE*
Easy way to stop spammers/dos-attacks using lighttpd
First, enable mod_evasive, then add: evasive.max-conns-per-ip = X, where X is some integer.
This works, however if the same domain hosts images and files alike, it could lead to false positives. If a pagehit requires 90 requests, and the clientbrowser is set up to allow more concurrent requests to the site than max-conns-per-ip is set to, [...]
Strange Ubuntu 8.10 Ibex reviews
It seems STRANGE to say the least that all these reviews about the latest & gratest from Canonical doesn’t even comment the fact that session-support is for all practical purposes non-existant in gnome 2.24 (and therefore Ubuntu). Even more fucked up is the fact that gnome 2.24 does not even gracefully shut down applications when [...]
Reinstall, ArchLinux, gnome..
So I’ve had a 1TB drive lying around for a few months, and since exams are comming up fast ofcourse now is the time to set it up. I’m moving everything from my old disk to the new, and at the same time I decided to just reinstall everything.
I’m leaving room for a 64bit distro, [...]
Subversion troubles
So I was trying to set up svnsync today. After reading a quick guide, I got to it. After running
“svnsync synchronize URL_TO_MIRROR_REPO”, it started synching until revision 9, where it stopped with an error – “Filesystem path ‘%s’ is neither a file nor a directory”. After comming up with basically nothing from searching, I tried [...]
Gentoo updating or: why I don’t like Gentoo on a server
So the other day I decided to do a full update on Gentoo. I normally do these things way less often than I probably should, but there is a good reason for that.
I’m not even halfway through a systemupgrade, and here’s just a few things that failed during compile: openssl, wget, sgml-common, glibc, libcrypto.. and [...]