Category Archives: Linux

Fast screenshot sharing in Linux

When I’m using Windows or OS X, I use a utility called Tinygrab to quickly share screenshots over the internet, whether it’s via Twitter, IM, email, etc. The concept is simple: you press a key combination, select a region of … Continue reading

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Small, personal web servers

I recently helped my roommate shop for a small, personal web server.  We wound up basing it on Intel’s Atom platform, and I was amazed at how cheap it was.  The server (pictured above) came up to almost exactly $200, … Continue reading

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Automatic offsite WordPress backups

Yesterday, I decided to set up a an automated backup solution for my site here.  Basically, it does an sqldump then sends the dump to another server over SCP. First, I had to enable SSH login without a password in … Continue reading

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Deluge turns 1.0!

Deluge 1.0.0 was just released, and will soon be is now available here http://launchpad.net/~deluge-team/+archive

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Clusterf*ck: Mass Virtualization

Sometime after I get back to Kentucky, I’m thinking of building a server for running virtual machines using VMware Server 2.0. The idea is to virtualize as many of my machines as possible.  Virtual servers, in particular, benefit from this … Continue reading

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Ubuntu Netbook Remix

There’s been a fair amount of news online about Canonical’s specialized version of Ubuntu for Atom based laptops, but the current word on it is that Canonical will only be licensing it directly to OEMs.  However, there is a PPA … Continue reading

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Easy SSH Tunneling

Whenever I work out of the San Francisco office, I have to tunnel back to my workstation in Palo Alto in order to do any development.  The way I do this is with an SSH Tunnel.  While I used to … Continue reading

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Always lock down your mod_proxy

So, my server had been eating bandwidth for breakfast, and I finally found out why.  I was using apache’s mod_proxy to redirect incoming connections across the network, but that was being hijacked by some ad agencies and being used as … Continue reading

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Cervantes Lives! And other fun tales

Cervantes is back online, at least for the time being.  I’m going to take this opportunity to write a few things.  So much has happened since my last post. Obviously, the main thing is my internship.  I’m now almost three … Continue reading

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T61p works great with Linux

Model: Lenovo Thinkpad T61p 6459-CTO Distro: Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 2.5GHz The CPU runs fast and cool.  While idling, it stays somewhere between 40 and 50 Celsius, and goes up to about 60C under … Continue reading

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