In the previous post I wrote about enabling compression for your pages so that they would load faster to the visitor. Today I’m going to write about how you can make use of browser caching to save some bandwidth. Some people told me that their ISP or hosting provider requested that they upgrade the hosting [...]

While attempting to compile djbdns 1.05 and daemontools 0.76 on a CentOS 5.5 I received the error: /usr/bin/ld: errno: TLS definition in /lib/libc.so.6 section .tbss mismatches non-TLS reference in envdir.o The problem can be eliminated by adding: -include /usr/include/errno.h In conf-cc files for each tarball. Don’t forget to install gcc first, if you have a [...]

No, you don’t need to. This morning I struggled to convince someone that the server does not need a reboot. It was because of this: Increasing the number of file handles on Linux workstations. ulimit – Provides control over the resources available to the shell and to processes started by it, on systems that allow [...]

I managed to get OpenVPN running on my DD-WRT v2.2 router, with the instructions from the wiki. However after a few reboot tests I saw that OpenVPN died immediately after it started, with no traceable reasons. Sep 12 00:51:10 192.168.xx.xx openvpn[3940]: TUN/TAP device tap0 opened . . . Sep 12 00:51:11 192.168.xx.xx openvpn[3949]: Initialization Sequence [...]

As a SysAdmin I have been using OpenVZ since it was introduced, and trust me it has not always been this easy. I used to take care of 20 physical servers with yearly replacement of about 5 machines. Since some of the servers are running different Linux distributions and different hardware it was decided that [...]

All hyped out about sharing Linux knowledge with friends especially dirn, I wanted to download Ubuntu for my own use mainly because I am a strict Debian user. Browsing the mirror list in Ubuntu official site I am disappointed by the speed of most of the mirrors I selected, and the fastest I can get [...]

Just a short sharing note, for users of CentOS 4.5 who is looking to update PHP to version 5 instead of the default 4.3.9 there is a clean and easy way to upgrade your PHP. Open up /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo and look for the section centosplus: [centosplus] name=CentOS-$releasever – Plus mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/… #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/… gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-centos4 priority=2 protect=1 [...]

Have you seen or used Windows Vista? Like the eye candies and effects that it provides? Wished that something like that is available on your other favorite *NIX OS? Wish no more, Compiz Fusion is here. This project is a merger between Compiz and Beryl. Beryl was a fork of Compiz, where there was some [...]

The current “stable” distribution of Debian GNU/Linux is version 4.0r0, codenamed etch. It was released on April 8th, 2007. Testing is now codenamed lenny. Release notes here.

Have you ever heard of the browser named Iceweasel? Of course not, if you’re not using Debian. One of my machine at home is running a Debian Etch installation (my torrent box), and a few days ago I ran apt-get upgrade to upgrade the packages. I was quite annoyed at first, as it’s trying to [...]

Finally, Skype has released a beta version with alsa support: 1.3.0.30_API Hopefully all the troubles with “Problem with Sound Device” will be history. However for users with very old kernels, and prefer to use OSS, the option is still there. The problem with Skype utilizing OSS on modern systems is that it keeps on failing [...]

My 17-days old Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 300GB disk was giving a lot of error two days ago. There were a bunch of errors in my syslog: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0×51/40 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0×3/11/04 ata1: status=0×51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ata1: error=0×40 { UncorrectableError } ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0×51/40 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ [...]

I was compiling and installing jabberd2 on a server at office and everything went great except for one thing: no initscript provided. I was baffled to find out that the great software didn’t have any initscript. So I wrote one: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 [...]

Be careful when you are feeling like doing an apt-get upgrade today. My whole KDE menu at work went missing after doing an upgrade… LOL! This bug has been reported: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323747  The buggy version is 3.4.2-1 so for now, downgrade to 3.3.2-6.1

I just spent a few hours trying to find out what the problem is with my Debian. I just replaced Fedora Core 3 to Debian unstable on my notebook. It’s a HP nx9010, equipped with Radeon IGP: 0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 340M There was no video from noatun and xine. [...]