Author: Emil C

Chasing Ads

January 29, 2015 Emil C
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I hate ads. Don’t get me wrong, I understand why they’re here, I understand how the system works, I just hate when ads get in your way. For Chrismas, Santa and my Piggy Bank decided to make me have a Galaxy S5 Duos (Duos stands for Dual SIM). It all…
Phones & Tablets

follow the logs

August 29, 2014 Emil C
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Well, on a high-traffic mail server we need to follow the server log, to look for possible issues. The “tail -f” method might just not be as good as we would want, text is going up too fast and web just can’t read that fast. A solution to that is…
Tips & Tricks

Per site custom CSS

August 7, 2014 Emil C
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Let’s say you’re on a news website for instance bbc.co.uk, that you read a lot, but each time you look on the website you can’t tell if you already visited that portion of the website or not. Let’s say you still have a chance, there’s a Firefox and Chrome add-on…
Tips & Tricks

Removing old kernels

August 6, 2014 Emil C
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On Debian/Ubuntu we would need to search for installed kernel packages, something like this: root@server:~# dpkg --list |grep linux-image ii  linux-image-3.2.0-23-generic         3.2.0-23.36                                      Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP ii  linux-image-3.2.0-56-generic         3.2.0-56.86                                      Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP ii  linux-image-3.2.0-57-generic         3.2.0-57.87                                     …
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RHEL (CentOS) – changing Apache’s MPMs

July 20, 2014 Emil C
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Well, in EL6 when we wanted to change Apache’s MPMs we would edit /etc/sysconfig/httpd and set the HTTPD variable with the binary needed.It looks something like: HTTPD=/usr/sbin/httpd.worker To see the available options we could type the following command: [root@server ~]# ls  /usr/sbin/httpd* /usr/sbin/httpd  /usr/sbin/httpd.event  /usr/sbin/httpd.worker The simple httpd binary uses…
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