Using a pfx certificate with Apache
I had to install a certificate that came to me in pfx format. In order to use it with apache I had to convert it in a more manageable format. With OpenSSL you can convert pfx to Apache compatible...
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Remove the Thunar root warning
I never understood a developer’s obsession with “their way” but anyways. Thunar is a good light file manager that has one issue, it insists on displaying a warning when being used as root that cannot...
View ArticleStream music from home when you are away
I run a pretty powerful microitx system as my home router. Since it’s always on (as oposed to my nas) I decided to add some storage so I can host my music and some tv shows. I checked some projects and...
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Starting 2014 Ad Free
As you probably failed to notice I removed from my blog the like/tweet/etc. buttons a while ago as I figured nobody is going to tweet about how he found the latest fix to some obscure daemon. As I find...
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List of Humble Bundle Games that work on the Sailfish OS Jolla Phone
Being and old time Maemo fan I went and preordered the Jolla phone as soon as I could (March 2013 IIRC) and I’ve been happily playing with it ever since I got it. I like to play the occasional game on...
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Rename an application shortcut on the Jolla phone
Some time ago I bought OfficeSuite in the Google Play store and thought that it would be nice to have it running on my SailfishOS powered Jolla phone as well. I conacted mobisystems and they were nice...
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Expose the sd-card of the Jolla phone over USB
I know there are many ways to get content onto the Jolla phone (rsync over ssh springs to mind) but for large files I still prefer USB. Having just bought a 64Gb micro-sd I wanted to copy the bulk of...
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Evernote under Wine: “already installed by another user.”
Trying to update to the latest evernote version on a linux laptop I use I hit the error mentioned in the title: “evernote was already installed by another user.” Weird, but solvable. I ended doing the...
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Install blinkstick on Slacware
I recently built a blinkstick, a cool little device. Using it under linux is very easy using the command line, but I had some issues installing it under Slackware: 123456789101112pip install blinkstick...
View ArticleError creating zfs pools using drives that belonged to a md raid array
While migrating a file server from mdadm software raid to zfs I encountered the following error while creating the pool: 123zpool create -f tank mirror /dev/disk/by-id/xxx /dev/disk/by-id/yyy the...
View ArticleSlow ZFS write performance
A note to self more than anything. While I was rebuilding my HP N40L Microserver storage to use new drives and ZFS I experienced very slow (<20MB/s ) First I thought that it was because the source...
View ArticleCount traffic from an apache log file
I had to count traffic made by a resource from the apache log files. If awstats had been installed it would have been an easy job, but it wasn’t hard without it either. I used hints from here to build...
View ArticleUsing a standard mysql function returns an error
While running some mysql scripts I suddenly hit the following error: 1ERROR 1305 (42000) at line 1: FUNCTION somedatabase.find_in_set does not exist Since find_in_set is a standard function I was kind...
View ArticleSSH key based authentication fails on a new computer
Having reinstalled one of my older laptops I noticed I cannot login using it’s private key. I was sure I backed up the original and properly restored it after reinstalling. I ran ssh -v to get more...
View Article[updated] List of Humble Bundle Games that work on the Sailfish OS Jolla Phone
Being and old time Maemo fan I went and preordered the Jolla phone as soon as I could (March 2013 IIRC) and I’ve been happily playing with it ever since I got it. I like to play the occasional game on...
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Linux on the Acer E3-111 – Aspire E3-111-C5FN
I gave up on using a tablet and sold mine some time ago. My old toshiba m100 laptop was to heavy and too old to lug around when on holiday (mainly to download photos) so I decided to buy a small laptop...
View ArticleGraph the number of twitter followers using Nagios
I’m running a nagios instance on a home machine to monitor and graph all kinds of data. Among them I wanted a graph of the twitter followers of some twitter bots I built. I needed a script to get this...
View ArticleCan you mirror a stripe? (a.k.a. 3 disks raid 10 or 1+0)
TL;DR Yes you can assemble a md device from a stripe and a disk. Please don’t shoot! :) I’m doing this on a testing server, I don’t have any idea about the long term stability and/or reliability and I...
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Use nagios to track and graph your twitter followers
I’ve been using Nagios to monitor servers and devices for years now. Lately as an exercise to learn more about nagios I installed a private instance that I use to monitor everything I can think of –...
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