Monthly Archives: July 2006
How to set up different window managers with VNC
I recently needed to replace twm as the window manager I used under VNC. I wanted something light so I looked at: blackbox, fluxbox, and flwm. These window managers have been around for some time and are probably available as binary packages for most distributions.
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5 ImageMagick command line examples part 2
I've put together another 5 ImageMagick command line examples as a followup to part 1. These examples are a little more advanced and include some extra information on techniques.
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Building firefox and mozilla tools on an AMD64
Sometimes I curse the day I decided to get a 64 bit box. Everything is fine until I want to build something by hand or upgrade something and then if it doesn't just work it is like a maze of problems. Recently I was trying to build firefox from source along with XULRunner so that [...]
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PHP RRDTool tutorial
On a number of occasions I've used RRDTool to graph network traffic and the like. A few years ago when I started using cacti I started wondering how to make the graphs myself. Creating the graphs on the command line isn't that hard once you know how to set things up and it turns out [...]
Posted in php, system administration 23 Comments
Good article on keeping javascript maintainable
Vitamin has a good article today on the importance of maintainable javascript. 95% of what the article covers is applicable to any code. The important parts of the article cover javascript specific things like: object literals, namespaces and where to go when you want to compress your javascript to save bandwidth/make it download faster. They [...]
5 ImageMagick command line examples – part 1
If you have ever wanted to manipulate images under linux you probably have used Gimp. This isn't your only option and if you want to do things from the command line a better option is to use ImageMagick's convert utility. I've put together 5 simple command line examples that I have found useful. This is [...]
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Interesting alternative to tagging
I found a post about an alternative approach to tagging today and thought it would be interesting if someone made a wordpress plugin that would use this idea. It seems like it might be a nice alternative to the normal site map that most sites have when there is a lot of information to drill [...]
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Tape drives are obsolete
I was reading an article today that asks the question Are Tape Backup systems obsolete? I would say the answer is yes and that it has been that way for some time now. Take google who build thier own commodity hardware. How would they ever back up so much data? Why would they even try? [...]
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Sun ZFS and some big hardware
This is one large set of disks to have in only 4u of space. And to top it off the thing has 4 cores. I love commodity hardware and sun has been rolling out some nice commodity hardware these days. The price for some of the equipment has started to catch my eye now. I [...]
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