about 1 year ago - No comments
With the introduction of Apple’s newest operating system OS X 10.7 Lion, the company has taken one step further to disconnect their users from other competing user interaction schemes. Let me elaborate on this rather strong statement by going back in history a bit. I can still remember, when I got my first Mac, it…
about 2 years ago - 3 comments
Description GoAccess is a very handy tool, that runs in the terminal on most *nix Systems (e.g. Linux, Mac OS X, BSD etc.) and displays relatime data gathered from Apache’s access logfile. It offers a very structured display with different “modules” that break down the parsed access.log data into sections: General Statistics – Information analyzed…
about 2 years ago - No comments
Google released an Apache module that auto tunes performance Google has announced that they are launching a module for the Apache HTTP server called mod_pagespeed, that will automatically tune several properties to optimize page load speed. I haven’t tried it out yet, but will definitely do so. Amongst other things, mod_pagespeed will: recompress images modify…
about 4 years ago - No comments
This handy piece of code colors errors and warnings in make output. (put it in your .bash_profile) make() { pathpat="(/[^/]*)+:[0-9]+” ccred=$(echo -e “\033[0;31m") ccyellow=$(echo -e "\033[0;33m") ccend=$(echo -e "\033[0m") /usr/bin/make "$@" 2>&1 | sed -E -e "/[Ee]rror[: ]/ s%$pathpat%$ccred&$ccend%g” -e “/[Ww]arning[: ]/ s%$pathpat%$ccyellow&$ccend%g” return ${PIPESTATUS[0]} } via shawnwilsher.com An…
about 5 years ago - 1 comment
about 5 years ago - 1 comment
Yesterday the wonderful Howtoforge had an article that finally freed me from my beloved/hated scponly. MySecureShell offers all the functionality of a proper SFTP server, easily configurable and very well integrated. To get it up and running on Debian, just download the latest *.deb version from Sourceforge. Then install it with the following command: dpkg…
about 6 years ago - 4 comments
grep is a useful little *nix command line utility that makes it easy to search for strings in files. The real beauty comes when you start using it with pipes. One thing that kind of bothered me since I started using it, that it didn’t highlight the string you where searching for in it’s output.…
about 6 years ago - 2 comments
Yesterday I finally set up my good old iBook as juke box. It now sits on a shelf besides my working table and runs iTunes fullscreen wirelessly connected to the net and the stereo via my AirpotExpress. It’s working perfectly and I am really satisfied with it. The only downside was, that when I wanted…
about 6 years ago - 2 comments
This is a quick HowTo for installing the eAccelerator PHP cache/optimizer on a Debian system (should be applicable to other Linux distros as well). Download the latest release from SourceForge.net to your server and extract the sources. Change to the sources directory and type in the following. export PHP_PREFIX=”/usr” $PHP_PREFIX/bin/phpize ./configure –enable-eaccelerator=shared –with-php-config=$PHP_PREFIX/bin/php-config This should…