So there are tons of utilities to keep the SafePeer plugin up-to-date in Windows (like BlueTack’s Blocklist Manager), but Linux and the Mac have been left out in the cold. We’ll I found a way to get those 190k+ ips blocked in azureus without having to use Peerguardian or MoBlock (MoBlock is still safer [...]
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Setting up Azureus and SafePeer in Linux
Published by October 19th, 2007 in azureus, howto, linux and software. 0 CommentsAdding fdftk to php under debian
Published by October 18th, 2007 in debian, linux and php. 0 CommentsSince there is not an easy step by step howto for adding features to packages I decided to write a quick and dirty one myself. this is also for reference if I ever need it later. Read more to see what I did….
SuSE SLES 10 Migrating from NIS using MigrationTools
Published by August 9th, 2007 in linux, security, software and technology. 0 CommentsSo we were moving a NIS database to LDAP under SUSE SLES 10 using the MigrationTools-47 scripts. It generated the ldif file, but would not import because it was failing on adding groups. This was the error we were getting:
(65) no structural object class provided
All we had to do is change this:
objectClass: posixGroup
objectClass: top
to this:
objectClass: [...]
Gallery2 Watermarks on all Images
Published by December 5th, 2006 in linux, pictures and programming. 0 CommentsAfter much searching and Database queries I found a forum post that explains how to add a url rewrite rule to make all images on a gallery2 site have a watermark. I’m sure also with some massaging it can be applied to different albums, but all I need is all or nothing.
DTV released as Democracy (Linux Preview)
Published by February 22nd, 2006 in diggs, iptv, linux, podcasting, software, technology and video. 0 CommentsThe long awaited, open-source Democracy platform is a project of the Participatory Culture Foundation allowing you to subscribe to video RSS feeds (including podcasts, video blogs, and BitTorrent feeds), watch fullscreen and share with friends.
So I checked out Democracy and was impressed at the layout and that I was actually able to download content right [...]
mtink: Status Monitor for EPSON inkjet printers
Published by January 24th, 2006 in hardware, linux and software. 0 CommentsI found a great little print monitor for linux called mtink. It works great for my Epson Stylus Photo 825 printer when hooked up via usb and I can reset, clean, and nozzle check the printer all from this little program. If using my particular printer you will need to select the Stylus Photo printer [...]
My Next Laptop: IBM ThinkPad X41 Tablet
Published by November 7th, 2005 in hardware and linux. 0 CommentsI was looking over the KDE Look feed in akregator (a RSS feed tool in KDE) and opened up a splash screen that I thought looked good in . I clicked on a google ad, to help support sites I like, and came upon a site called eLucis which sells linux distros on cd and [...]
All I can say is wow. The latest VueScan takes advantage of GTK2 on linux and is an awesome app (also runs on Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX). It makes scanning as easy or advanced as you would like and helps turn old pictures and faded shots into photos like they had just been printed. [...]
I’ve always had a problem with figuring out permissions in Samba. Today I was looking up some information on it and found this very good description posted on the samba mailing list:
“create mask” *removes* permissions. “force create mode” *adds* them. To quote from the man page for smb.conf
This parameter [create mask] may [...]
My friend Steve has bought a car, trailer/bus, and has gotten a crew together to compete in racing events. The car will be sporting tux the penguin (linux mascot) and other open source “free” software logos. He recently contacted Richard Stallman of FSF fame to request using an FSF logo on the car. Here is [...]
