MySQL and Unix Timestamps
MySQL and Unix Timestamps There has been a lot of infighting lately about the best way to handle timestamps with MySQL. The most positive and widely accepted answer is simple, whatever works best for...
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Package Dependencies For a while, we got approached daily by some contractors who were Debian-bred. Unfortunately, for them, we had a customer who needed to deploy Fedora/RedHat to support a specific...
View ArticleConfiguring a Smart Relay in Sendmail
What is Sendmail? Sendmail is a very simple and effective Mail Transport Agent (MTA) which you can install locally on a server. You can learn more about Sendmail by taking a look at their website. This...
View ArticlePHP 5.4.15 Released!
New PHP Version Available The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 5.4.15 and PHP 5.3.25. These releases fix about 10 bugs. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to PHP...
View ArticleJUNOS Remote API
Remotely Executing Commands on JUNOS Those who are familiar with Juniper and their software known as JUNOS, may not know about the extendability of the platform using SLAX. You can read about SLAX on...
View ArticleUnable to SCP to Juniper JUNOS Devices with WinSCP
Copying Files with SCP When you are working within a network there is always a need to copy files. This includes patches, upgrades, scripts and logs which always have a need to be transfered. For *nix...
View ArticleHTTP Proxy Authentication From CLI
HTTP Proxies We deploy a firewall between our internet zones and working zones. This helps segregate possible flawed traffic from testing and keeps possibly harmful traffic from affecting the internet....
View ArticleDedicated Routing Tables in Linux
Linux Routing Linux is a very powerful platform. It is the framework for thousands of applications and software suites. It’s flexibility when it comes to network is second to none, especially for power...
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Disable Last Login Message in Shell
Default Messages When Launching Shell Depending on how you access your shell, you can be greeted with a variety of messages. These can range from a quick 15-minute snapshot such as Ubuntu’s Landscape...
View ArticlePHP 5.5.0: What’s new?
A Bit of PHP History PHP was originally developed by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995, some 18 years ago. It’s acronym stood for a very bold and fitting Personal Home Page. In 1997, PHP 3 was releaseed, followed...
View ArticleManaging Nginx With nginxmgr
Making Nginx Easier To Manage When working with nginx, to help reduce the time required to manually create sites, enable, disable and delete them, we created a utility called, nginxmgr. This project is...
View ArticleTesting Remote Syslog Connectivity
Remote Syslog Many large networks and companies will pass their syslog messages to a remote server. This serves 2 key purposes, saves resources on the local device, and allows them to correlate key...
View ArticleUpgrading PHP
Staying Up To Date It’s always a good idea to upgrade your software when it’s related to bug fixes and security patches. Most recently, PHP 5.5.2 was released today to correct a security vulnerability...
View ArticleInstalling Rockstack On Mac
What Is Rock? Rockstack is a developer environment (DevEnv) tool that makes installing and managing code bases extremely easy. At my new position, we use the tool frequently to reduce the headache and...
View ArticleOne-Liner: Get Processor Counts
Processor Counts When you’re writing configurations for services like PHP-FPM or nginx, you need to know how many processes are available. One example is the worker_processes setting in nginx.conf. As...
View ArticleCreating a Responsive Shell
Responsive Shell, Oh My! One of the biggest web trends over the past 3 years has been responsive designs. This is where the width of your device dictates the layout of your website. This allows you to...
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