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Category: Technology
Posting to WordPress via the command-line
In February I was interested in posting to WordPress from the command-line, a possibility that I enjoyed when I wanted to apply some CLI-magic to some of my MediaWiki installations in the past. Read More »
Making a service available on more ports with iptables
If you need services to be availble on multiple ports, you can use:
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp --dport 1000 -j REDIRECT --to-port 25 --match comment --comment "Explain."
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Setting up pptpd and pptp for a VPN
source and source and source. I'm keeping it as simple as possible.
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Making a Compaq Deskpro sff boot without keyboard
To boot a compaq Deskpro sff without keyboard, you need to configure the BIOS in a special way.
I found this:
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Disabling exim port 25 listening when zimbra is installed
When you're installing zimbra in an Ubuntu or Debian machine, it seems it installs the MTA in such a way that command line tools like mail and such don't work. But when you install exim, it conflicts with the postfix in Zimbra.
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Taking control of the wpautop filter
Wordpress does automatic paragraph formatting using the wpautop filter, some PHP code originally developed by Matt Mullenweg. For most of the time that this blog has existed, I've disabled the wpautop filter using the following two lines in my theme's functions.php file: Read More »
grml
grml seems like an interesting Debian-based Linux Live CD. It seems interesting because “[it] includes a collection of GNU/Linux software especially for system administrators and users of texttools.”
Read More »C++ base 10 to base 26
Last februari/march, I've been working again on an old obsession from ten years ago (when I was eighteen): to write a Minesweeper program that could solve very big maps as well or better than the best human player. At the time I did this because I thought that this was actually a million dollar challenge from the Clay Mathematics Institute. Now, I understand that the problem I solved at the time was not actually what was required, but still, once upon a time (such as early this year), I like to revisit the old problem and try to redo my old segfault generator as something that benefits from the fact that I'm now working with 10 years of programming experience instead of 1. Read More »
Zimbra has no shutdown init script on Debian and Ubuntu
There is a K01zimbra in rc6.d for reboot, but not in rc0.d. See this bug report I made.
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Zimbra dependancy on ‘file’
Zimbra has a dependancy on 'file', which the installer file won't check for. It is also a WONTFIX bug, so beware: install file(1)! If you don't, mails get stuck in queue because amavisd won't run.
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