Upgrade Ubuntu Dapper to Karmic
I found an old server at a clients site today that went down during a UPS outage last weekend. It turns out it was last rebooted 645 days ago. What a trooper! It was running Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake).
NTLM Authentication on Ubuntu and Apache2 Revisited
It's been a while since I've had to build an NTLM integrated Apache2 server.
So I thought I'd take help from Ubuntu's packages and install LAMP from there like most people seem to be doing these days.
Once all that is up and running, you will need to download mod_ntlm_winbind. Its an ancient package I complied years ago from the samba source tree, good news is it still works.
Getting mytop to work on CentOS/Redhat
Screw all these AJAXified, buzz-wordified MySQL monitors. I'm old school. I use the fantastic mytop tool Jeremy Zawodny created 9 years ago.
Unfortunately it won't run on CentOS. I got the error, 'Error in option spec: "long|!"'
Using SCP to copy files between Linux servers
SCP? SCP is a method of securely transferring files between a local and a remote host or between two remote hosts, using the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol.
Sounds confusing?
Permanently mount a Windows share in Linux
Sick of manually mounting a Windows share on Linux with "mount" for it to drop off randomly? Or not really knowing if it is mounted or not?
Then make a permanent mount in fstab.
Single Line WordPress Install
I'm getting a pro at installing WordPress now.I'm trying to cut down my install time to a minimum.
Firefox and NTLM Authentication
Firefox dislikes NTLM authentication really. Sometimes it hates it completely.
Specifically when you make AJAX requests from an NTLM authenticated server.
Fortunately, with a bit of counselling there is a resolution on hand.
Install Imagemagick / Imagick for PHP on Ubuntu
No problem if you want to install imagemagick on your server, Ubuntu makes this very easy for you with only a few simple commands.
NFS mount point hung?
Has your NFS mount point hung and turned into a black hole swallowing every filesystem command?
Try to unmount it forcefully.
umount -lf /mount/point
Then remount it,
mount -a
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