Author: halfgaar

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Halfgaar is Wiebe. Wiebe is a contributing author on this weblog. He also has a lot of stuff (such as long, in-depth articles) on his personal website.

Setting password for mysql user in .my.cnf

Sometimes you want automated access for root on your MySQL database. One way of accomplishing that is by doing this: Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 weeks ago, on August 11, 2010, at 09:08 | No comments

Disabling debug for mod wsgi

For the record, when deploying mod wsgi apps, remember to enable optimizations in mod_wsgi.conf. Otherwise debug will be true.

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By halfgaar, 4 weeks ago, on August 06, 2010, at 17:08 | No comments

Setting a custom greeting for an Asterisk voicemailbox

By default, Asterisk always plays its own vm-intro as voicemail intro. To enable the user to record their own message, the entry in extensions.conf which sends a caller to the voicemail should be: Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 month ago, on July 30, 2010, at 16:07 | No comments

Making a port forwarded machine available from within the LAN

When you forward a port to an internal machine on the network, you still can't access that host using your WAN-IP from within the LAN. This article explains it well. In short, it's because the reply the machine your connecting to makes, goes to the LAN IP directly, and not back through the router. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 month ago, on July 23, 2010, at 13:07 | No comments

Disabling related after current tab open

I don't like that firefox nowadays opens new tabs after the current tab. When I open stuff, I remember in which order I opened it and I don't want that order changed by having tabs inserted. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 month ago, on July 22, 2010, at 12:07 | No comments

Burning media with wodim

Every time I want to burn media, I have to look up again what the syntax is. So, for future reference, this post. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 month ago, on July 22, 2010, at 09:07 | No comments

Configuring a Debian exim server for internet delivery

I wanted an Exim server which could send mail on its own without the use of another SMTP server. Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 month ago, on July 20, 2010, at 11:07 | No comments

Customizing displayed headers in Mozilla Thunderbird

For some reason, the new Thunderbird 3 thought it was useful to show me the content_encoding header per default, below the addressee and stuff. This header had such a long name that it disrupted the layout. Luckily, you can change what headers it displays by editing "mailnews.headers.extraExpandedHeaders" in the configuration editor. Read More »
By halfgaar, 3 months ago, on May 26, 2010, at 08:05 | No comments

Scroll in windows under mouse pointer in Windows

In Windows, you have to click on windows, and even window-panes, before the scrollwheel works there. With mousewiz, you can alter that behaviour, and make it like most Linux Desktops, where you scroll in the window/pane that is under the cursor.

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By halfgaar, 3 months ago, on May 20, 2010, at 12:05 | No comments

Generating a self-signed SSL certificate

This article explains nicely how to make a self-signed SSL certificate, for Apache for instance: Read More »
By halfgaar, 4 months ago, on May 16, 2010, at 23:05 | No comments