Category: SysAdmin

  • dd-wrt and git as Aspirational Projects

    Aspirational Projects: Those projects we aspire to complete and yet often never really find time to actually work at completing. Two of mine, installing dd-wrt on a router as a hack, and installing git for version control have been around for some time. I completed dd-wrt yesterday and have no idea why I put this…

  • Is The Web Server You Deploy Secure?

    Website security is a big deal, in the shop today I am testing out Websecurify which is an automated web application security scanner.  A quick shoutout to Muhammad Usama Alam at Smash!ng Apps that gave this one a quick review and brought it to my attention .  You can find the code hosted on Google…

  • Let’s Make the Server Faster

    I subscribe to the belief that constant monitoring for performance improvement is counter productive.  At the same time, I am old enough to remember when each adjustment made a difference to constantly scarce resources.  At irregular intervals which occur after I notice something slow in the page being rendered in the browser I wait for…

  • Wally: Automatic Wallpaper Changer

    My thanks to W8 for this tip. Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper changer, using multiple sources like files, folders, FTP remote folders, Flickr, Yahoo!, Panoramio, Pikeo, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa and Smugmug images. Not only that, but it also works on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. Ubuntu users will be glad to know that it…

  • Hacking an HP Media Vault Pro for RSYNC

    Image via Wikipedia I have a number of HP Media Vault Pro, MV5150s, which I purchased to provide classroom storage at a low cost.  These are MV2, Series 2 Media Vault servers, and the instructions that follow are specific to this series only.  They work great, and I have begun to use them daily with…