Today I will start a new series for linux/*nix newbies called Useful shell commands. Every now and then I will write about one of the powerful commands you’ll find on your shell. I will start the series with a command called last.
# last
Calling last on your commandline gives you a list of logins. You will [...]
Nowadays OpenSUSE comes with almost all packages I need to run a fast and reliable webserver. As I have written before I use nginx and php-fpm for our podcast service.
You can get up-to-date packages of nginx through OpenSuSE’s build service. I have not yet found a RPM package of php-fpm though. Therefore I compile it [...]
I had to set up a server. The hoster offers openSUSE 11.0 at the moment but no openSUSE 11.1 yet. As I like to go with the latest and greatest I decided to upgrade the system to openSUSE 11.1 after using the hoster’s installation image for openSUSE 11.0. I searched on the web how a [...]
The newest version of OpenSuSE got released today. OpenSuSE 11.1 brings more than 230 new features the press release says. As I keep my systems up to date thanks to smart and all the repositories only a number of these new feature are missing on my OpenSuSE 11.0 installations. The most important reason I quickly [...]
The bad thing with most new computers is that they come with Windows ™ preinstalled. The good thing is those Windows ™ installations don’t bring much (useful) software along. Users have to actively use which software they want to use.
A while back I wrote an article Switching from Apache HTTP Server to Lighttpd – Installing Lighttpd. Back then I migrated static stuff to lighttpd but left the dynamic stuff (PHP) with Apache.
I was never really satisfied with the speed of our system under load. I tried and tried. I optimized a lot of stuff [...]
For our main web project we struggle to serve the pages as fast as we want and as people aspect. Server load is too high most of the time. We did many different kinds of optimization. Starting with rewriting part of the code, squeezing the database, compiling the software we need instead of installing precompiled [...]
I upgraded my OpenOffice installation to version 2.3.0.1 for a 64-bit intel cpu. After upgrading the packages the software would reliably hang on saving a document and generating a pdf. I downgraded back to the monolithic i586 version. Everything works just fine and as expected.
I have been thinking of creating my own screencasts for a while. Today I stumbled upon a screenshot of Camtasia studio which looked very promising. Unfortunately they do not offer a linux version. So I googled around for an open source alternative. The one thing I found is the Xvidcap project. Drawback with the software [...]