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iodef for PHP

March 31, 2015March 8, 2017 Mark Leave a comment

Finally a PHP library that can read / write IODEF XML data.

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Linux

Offline slapd cn=config editing

September 19, 2014July 6, 2017 Mark Leave a comment

So, the olc config method of slapd is pretty nice, but sometimes it’s just easier to quickly edit the files directly in the slapd.d directory. Nasty side effect is that slapd will ignore files that fail the crc32 check.

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Linux

Change magnet: url handler for chrome

November 10, 2013March 8, 2017 Mark Leave a comment

Chromium’s (Chrome’s) protocol handling works in a different way then Firefox does. Firefox has it’s own piece of code to handle it (and configure it). Chromium uses xdg-utils to see what it needs to do.

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Debian

Installing ffmpeg (all versions) on debian squeeze and newer

August 23, 2012March 12, 2018 Mark 14 Comments

There are currently 5 active ffmpeg release versions 0.7.x up to 0.11.x. This document describes how to install these versions. I’ll leave you with a system ready for you to pick a version you need/want and tell you how to install them. All versions are as complete as possible AND containing nearly all supported codecs.

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Linux

Java leap second bug 30 June – 1 July 2012 – Fix

July 2, 2012March 8, 2017 Mark Leave a comment

So, as of last Sunday all java servers in my park started running at 100% CPU capacity. Turns out there’s a leap second bug in current java releases on Linux servers. I found this post where a temporary workaround/fix is provided.

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Linux

Automatic log out idle users in linux

May 10, 2012March 8, 2017 Mark Leave a comment

Some users have this (nasty) habit of staying logged into their shells. Not just one, but A LOT of them, very annoying to see all those idle connections (IMHO). So to prevent these idle connections from staying open until the end of days is to set a simple environment variable called “TMOUT”.

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mysql

PRM, MySQL HA and Pacemaker in the mix

February 8, 2012March 8, 2017 Mark 1 Comment

PRM, short for “Percona Replication Manager” is a Resource Agent for Pacemaker written by Yves Trudeau. He added the handling of vips for master/slaves to the existing RA. (Original post and source of information can be found here)

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Debian

Installing ffmpeg 0.9 on debian squeeze and newer

February 8, 2012August 23, 2012 Mark 3 Comments

I’ve created a newer version of this how-to which covers all current active releases of ffmpeg. The new how-to can be found here.

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Linux

XenServer 6 How to fix “no interface configured” after update or hotfix

January 27, 2012March 8, 2017 Mark 9 Comments

XenServer, it’s a nice product, but for some reason I AL-WAYS get the creeps when I need to update the server software with a new service pack or hot-fix. Checking the Citrix forums, there are tons of threads about people loosing their “Management interface” after an upgrade. I’ve read almost all of the posts on […]

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Linux

Kernel: Neighbour table overflow

December 29, 2011December 29, 2011 Mark Leave a comment

While randomly browsing some sites, I came a cross this page which described a problem I had about a year ago. I thought I should document it on my own site as well for reference.

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