Masternode setups can be tricky. The masternode and the wallet run on the same computer. Since a masternode needs a 24/7 internet connection, the wallet on it is, as they say, “hot”. It’s always connected.
Curium masternode setup – Cold wallet Windows and Linux
Masternode setups can be tricky. With this cold wallet setup, we run going to run the masternode with an empty wallet. The wallet with the actual collateral coins will be located on a different computer (this can be your Windows, Mac or Linux workstation. Anywhere else but the masternode itself will do).
iodef for PHP
Finally a PHP library that can read / write IODEF XML data.
Offline slapd cn=config editing
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.
Change magnet: url handler for chrome
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.
Installing ffmpeg (all versions) on debian squeeze and newer
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.
Java leap second bug 30 June – 1 July 2012 – Fix
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.
Automatic log out idle users in linux
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”.
PRM, MySQL HA and Pacemaker in the mix
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)
Installing ffmpeg 0.9 on debian squeeze and newer
I’ve created a newer version of this how-to which covers all current active releases of ffmpeg.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.