Gozer needs libgiblib to work right. I like to install strange libraries like this into /usr/local/lib. I put all of the source into /usr/local/src that isn’t part of the main RPM system. Even when I compiled and installed giblib, though, it wouldn’t work right: [usr-1@srv-1 ~]$ gozer gozer: error while loading shared libraries: libgiblib.so.1: cannot […]
Using Ldconfig To Set Library Locations
Reading RSS Feeds with Outlook 2007
Outlook 2007 has the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds. Just scroll down to the RSS Feeds folder under Personal Folders, click on the RSS Feeds. Right click on RSS Feeds. Choose Add a New RSS Feed. Enter the location of the RSS feed into the box: Here is what the NetAdminTools.com RSS feed looks […]
Rotating a Video with Mencoder
If you import a rotated video off of your phone or other device, here is a quick command to rotate it 90 degrees: mencoder -vf rotate=1 -o hx.avi -oac pcm -ovc lavc hx.mo Some more details are in How to rotate an AVI or MPEG file taken in Portrait.
Xfce Tips
If you lose your borders around your windows in Xfce4 and your mouse pointer over the desktop is wonky try: xfwm4 –replace rm -rf ~/.cache/sessions
Funky MP3 Car Players, and the Scripts That Load Them
Oh my. I had no idea about what was running my music. Now I know quite a bit more, and I thought I would share. My collection is very convoluted, but I didn’t know it. No, I had no idea. How did I get to the messy state I’m at today? I started converting my […]
Running Native Sim City on Ubuntu
Yes, yes… no time for games, usually, but sometimes a little Sunday gaming can be fun. For grins, we did a bit of googling, and found that Micropolis is available on Ubuntu. We happen to be running 12.10: apt-get install micropolis Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done The following extra […]
Fixing WMI Corruption on Windows 7
We had a workstation that wasn’t getting updates properly. Here are some items in the logs we noticed: Event ID 43: Windows Management Instrumentation ADAP failed to connect to namespace \\.\root\cimv2 with the following error 0x80041002 And: Event ID 1090: Windows failed to record Resultant Set of Policy (RSoP) information, which describes the scope of […]
Running Apache on Win32
Do you ever wish you could inch away from IIS and migrate towards Apache on Linux or some other UNIX operating system? Well, in this article we will install Apache on our NT server. Another advantage to using Apache is it is a cool way to get a full fledged web server on your workstation. […]
Apache Installation and Configuration
First, get the current Apache distribution from Apache.org, and extract it: [root@srv-3 src]# ls apache_1.3.19.tar.gz bind-9.1.2 bind-9.1.2.tar.gz webmin-0.85.tar.gz [root@srv-3 src]# tar -xzf ap*.gz [root@srv-3 src]# [root@srv-3 src]# ls apache_1.3.19 bind-9.1.2 webmin-0.85.tar.gz apache_1.3.19.tar.gz bind-9.1.2.tar.gz [root@srv-3 src]# cd ap* [root@srv-3 apache_1.3.19]# ls ABOUT_APACHE config.layout INSTALL Makefile.tmpl src Announcement configure KEYS README WARNING-WIN.TXT cgi-bin htdocs LICENSE README.configure conf […]
Protecting your site from particular IP addresses w/ Apache
If a particular user is abusing your Apache web server, it is quite easy to deny access to your site. We found (with our ISP) that the easiest is to put an entry in the .htaccess file in the root of the directory you want to protect: deny from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the offending […]
Inserting program listings in PHP-Nuke
NetAdminTools used to use PHP-Nuke. For those of you who don’t know, PHP-Nuke is a fabulous Open Source project that gives you everything you need to bring up your own website with a database backend and other features. Now, one annoying thing with PHP-Nuke, and most web based interfaces is that it is quite difficult […]
Programming With PHP – Part 1
In this series of articles, we will explore the fundamentals of PHP programming with MySQL. For a good reference, try this book. It helped us. In this installment of Programming With PHP, we will set up the Red Hat RPMs, configure our directories, and code a simple “Hello World” app. We are running Red Hat […]
Programming With PHP – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we set up a basic PHP server with Apache on a Red Hat system, and wrote a simple “Hello World” script. In this article, we will vary content based on browser type. We will use the HTTP_SERVER_VARS server variable. The specific variable we want is HTTP_SERVER_VARS[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’]. To use this, […]
Tidy Up Your HTML
One cool tool for tidying up your HTML, as well as notifying you of coding errors is TIDY. For an overview of what TIDY can do for you see this overview. Installation is quite easy: root@srv-1 src # tar -xzf tidy*.tgz root@srv-1 src # cd tidy root@srv-1 tidy # ls Makefile Makefile.bcc32 Makefile.nmake Makefile.vc6 console […]
Programming With PHP – Part 3
In this article we will pass a parameter to a PHP script via a URL, and we will get a little more sophisticated in our conditionals and regular expressions. One problem with accepting parameters is that there are often security issues. It is very important to ensure that the parameters passed by the user conform […]
Parsing Web Logs Into Calendar Text/Stats
We aren’t quite happy with the web stats software we use. The information is not brief enough. Mostly, we want to see the last couple months, with the weekends visible, and the unique hosts and pages viewed. Also, we have a lot of content that gets snagged that isn’t really what we consider a valid […]
Apache Tip – Take Clues Away from Bad Guys
Like the needy stranger who tells us his or her entire life story on the occassion of our first meeting, Apache spews out way too much information in every HTTP header. And like the unscrupulous sharpies who take advantage of lonely folks they meet on buses, there are those who would use this information to […]
Having Fun With Forums and RedirectPermanent
One thing that is quite prevalent in forums is sharing images as postings or as avatars. We saw that our RoboCoop was getting some hits, and wondered what was up. Well, there is a forum that has a daily discussion in Texas here that had put up a link to the image of our chicken […]
Using Tab2space to Convert Tabs to Spaces in Source Code
We often need to convert source code into html format. We use the pre tag; however, the default tab values are to wide. For instance: this is one tab this is another If we were to put some of our funner source code up, it would push the right margin over too far. Well, we […]
Installing and Configuring the Java SDK
Grab the sdk from java.com. For us, we are going to install this on Lobstora, which is a GNU/Linux box. Just make the binary executable and run it: [root@srv-1 opt]# chmod 700 j2*.bin [root@srv-1 opt]# ./j2sdk-1_4_2_03-linux-i586.bin We like putting this in /opt with a symlink to j2sdk. [root@srv-1 opt]# ln -s j2sdk1.4.2_03 j2sdk [root@srv-1 opt]# […]
