Father. Coder. Maker. Linuxer. Child forever.
“Can you see that red mist?”
“Yes I can. It looks like it’s closing in.” Gardan answered.
“It does. When it gets here, close your eyes and seal yourself.”
The mist slowly engulfed them. The girl closed her eyes and channeled all her energies to seal herself from the …
read moreI’m writing a software for my company in PHP, using the Symfony 2 framework. I’ve finished all the work, created some sample data, it loaded perfectly. Now I put the whole thing into production and tried to upload the production data into it. Guess what… it didn’t …
read moreI’m using *NIX systems for about 14 years now, but it can still show me new things. Today I had to generate a bunch of random names. I’ve create a small perl script which generates permutations of some usual Hungarian first and last names, occasionally prefixing it with …
read moreToday I got an interesting task. I had to upload some pdf documents to a site. The domain is ours, but we don’t have access to the application server that is hosting the page yet. Until we get it in our hands, I did a trick.
I enabled mod_rewrite …
read moreToday I gave a shot to install Oracle Linux. I thought I could easily install an Oracle DBA on it. Well, I was naive.
As only the 5.2 version is supported by XenServer 5.5, I downloaded that version of Oracle Linux. Installing it was surprisingly fast and easy …
read moreFew weeks ago I’ve upgraded two of our Debian based application servers from 5.0 to 6.0. Everything went fine, as the upgraded packages worked well with the 4.2 JBoss instances. For the new kernel we needed a reboot, but as the network had to be rebuilt …
read moreAfter several hours of package.keywords/package.use editing and package compiling, I managed to install GNOME 3 on my notebook. Well, I mean, the GNOME 3 packages. Unfortunately the fglrx driver didn’t seem to recognise my ATI Mobility M56P card, and the open source driver didn’t want …
read moreToday I went to the Ethical Hacking conference with my boss. It was my first appearance at such conferences, but I hope there will be more. Although we just started to redesign our IT security infrastructure with a 90% clear goal, it was nice to hear that everything is vulnerable …
read moreAfter having some hard times with Ubuntu (upgrading from 10.10 to 11.04), I decided to switch back to my old friend, Gentoo. As I’m currently learning about Linux hardening, I decided to use the new SELinux profile, which supports the v2 reference policy.
Installation was pretty easy …
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