Category Archives: General Linux
Throw every HTTP POST and GET request to a database
To test some web services with a partner at $dayjob, I had to find a handy way of seeing all the HTTP POST and GET requests directed to our server. The easiest way was to write a simple PHP script … Continue reading
Bind DNS and internal/external networks: how to serve different data
A couple of times during the last years, I faced the problem where I wanted a single DNS server to respond different data for a specific domain wheter I made a request from inside a company’s network or from the … Continue reading
KDE 4.4 in Fedora: new Dasboard configuration
As KDE 4.4 has hit the stable update repositories for Fedora a couple of days ago, I updated my parent’s computer. While doing that, I noticed that some options have been moved around, noticeably the ones concerning the Dashboard configuration. … Continue reading
Fedora: Configure the KDE Dashboard to behave like in OSX
One thing I absolutely loved on my Mac (OSX 10.4 Tiger at the time), was the way the Dashboard behaved. All other implementations of this feature I have seen on Windows Vista/7 and the default KDE 4.3 configuration sucked in … Continue reading
Skype 2.1 Beta for Linux
After quite a while, Skype has released a new version of their client for Linux (2.1 Beta). It FINALLY supports PulseAudio without having to tweak your whole sound system…It’s supported for Fedora 9+, Ubuntu 8+, Debian Lenny and OpenSUSE 11+. … Continue reading
Should yum/PackageKit go the Solaris way?
Recently I got a new job as a sysadmin in a company running Solaris 10 servers. I’m not really used to this OS, so I’ve ordered some books and read a ton of articles about it. As always, it’s quite … Continue reading
New 64-Bit Flash plugin from Adobe
I didn’t notice it before, but Adobe has released a new version of their 64-Bit Flash plugin for Linux. I quote: “The 64-bit Flash Player 10 alpha refresh for Linux was released on July 30, 2009.” Grab it on the … Continue reading
Banshee + Podcasts + Nokia phone = epic win
The last time I tried the Banshee music player it was around Fedora 8/9 and it was very buggy with a lot of crashes. So until now I was using the default Rhythmbox application provided with Fedora 11/Gnome to listen … Continue reading
Natively run Fedora 11 on an Intel Mac
For various reasons I like the Apple Mac Minis, they are cheap, compact, silent, energy efficient and quite powerful. So sometimes I use them as mini servers for some tasks, like as an rsync backup server. For that, I usually … Continue reading
Penumbra: 3 great linux games for 5$!
Sometimes, it’s happy news day. Today is one of these days. Paradox Interactive has ported 3 great games from the Penumbra series to Linux, they are horror games which received good metacritic scores ranging in the 70. The best thing … Continue reading