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Getting munin to run every 10 minutes
Munin is kind of inefficient and on my P4 2Ghz, it running every 5 minutes is too often, and the munin processes keep dying because locks already exist. You can't increase the munin-cron script to 10 minute intervals, because then rrdtool will generate gaps.
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My zeroth year at university
Maybe my biggest accomplishment to date—maybe my only real accomplishment, if your glasses are so colored by society's standards—has been to be accepted to the University of Groningen as a fulltime biology student. To apply, I had to send my curriculum and a letter of motivation. Which motivation? I wasn't so sure that I'd like to be a student. Actually, I had been quite certain for most of my adult life that I really did not want to study and waste all that precious time for a few crums of knowledge.
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Adding a clock in screen to avoid your ssh’s from being killed
The world is filled with stupid routers, which kill all connections that have no activity for a while (even a very short while). I keep loosing my SSH sessions because of this. To fix it, I added a clock in my GNU screen bar:
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Trying to reduce MySQL InnoDB disk usage after major reduction of data
So, two days ago, I tried to shrink my MediaWiki database and it almost worked, except the MySQL process wouldn't shrink along with it.
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Shrinking/compressing a MediaWiki database
As of late, I haven't had a lot of time to chase after spammers, so – despite of anti-spam captchas and everything – a couple of my wikis have been overgrowing with spam. One after the other I've been closing them down to anonymous edits, even closing down user registration alltogether, but some a little too late.
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Converting all tables in MySQL DB to InnoDB
#!/bin/bash
exit 1
dbname="eorder"
echo 'SHOW TABLES;' | mysql $dbname | awk '!/^Tables_in_/ {print "ALTER TABLE `"$0"` ENGINE = InnoDB;"}' | column -t
echo 'SHOW TABLES;' | mysql $dbname | awk '!/^Tables_in_/ {print "ALTER TABLE `"$0"` ENGINE = InnoDB;"}' | column -t | mysql $dbname
Read More » My universal remote programming codes
Whenever this remote's battery is loose for a while, it forgets its programming. So, here it is:
For computer, use the TV setting. Press 1 and 3 for a few seconds, then when the light turns on, enter 0677 as code.
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Kart racing scores
I want to keep track of my kart racing scores:
dateTrackRacerfastest Time
2012-07-24Long BeachWiebe55.95
2012-07-24Long BeachWiebe56.22
2012-07-24Long BeachWiebe58.84
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Apache mod_proxy configuration for The Pirate Bay
I found several apache mod_proxy configs for setting up a proxy for The Pirate Bay, but none worked fully.
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