Here’s a little shell hack we did with synack last week. Basically instead of logrotate for apache we wrote this shell script which gives us more control over the logs. If you look into the codes you will see that it grabs all the apache log files, zips them, clear the logs, move the zipped [...]
Did you know that Darren and John, two big pro bloggers introduced new designs for their blogs? Both of them hired/paid for web designers to design themes for them.
I’m not a designer, but I tried to do something out of Silhouette theme originally designed by Brian Gardner. I liked Silhouette for its plain and web2.0 [...]
Recently 5 out of 8 Ubuntu servers(LoCo) sponsored by Canonical were compromised. This can create a doubt in the community on the safety of Ubuntu Linux Server Editions. Are they really safe? Can we use them for production?
Here’s the explanation from James Troup, Canonical sysadmin team leader:
a) the servers, especially zambezi were running an incredible [...]
I attended Novell’s 7 in 7 Virtualization Road Show on Thursday. It took place in Berjaya Times Square Hotel. I was one of the early birds and I watched as the crowd came in and register and then had their breakfast. The breakfast was served in the local manner so I couldn’t enjoy it very [...]
I’ve been using thinkpads since 2005. I have used R50, R50e, R51, R51e, R52 and lastly R60 models along the way. All the models served me well during that time, they never failed, the hardware was just tough for a guy like me.
I’ve tried almost all kinds of linux distributions on them, I even give [...]