So, It’s been a while since I’ve set up my home server to use it as a swiss army knife at home and on the road.
Now I was wondering on the system’s integrity.
First step was checking /var/log/auth.log
To do some quick’n’dirty check I’ve ran the following command
Thanks to Zhann, whom pointed out to these 2 fine books, my wishlist got (even) longer.
1. Time management
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So, mom if you read this and you’d like to surprise me with something… This is it!!! You know I love you! 😉
When you have a dual boot with Windows and Ubuntu you might experience some time travelling when rebooting to windows.
To solve this, simply boot into Ubuntu and edit the /etc/default/rcS file as sudo and change the UTC value from yes to no.
It should look like this
TMPTIME=0
SULOGIN=no
DELAYLOGIN=no
UTC=no #Set according to your system (BIOS) clock.
VERBOSE=no
EDITMOTD=yes
FSCKFIX=no
These values are being used by the scripts at /etc/rcS.d/ that get invoked during boot (even in single user mode)
To be clear, this is not an Ubuntu error. It is simply the Windows that never assumes the system-clock to be in UTC.
If you wish to adjust this in the Windows installation execute regedit and navigate to:
Say, you have a huge flv flash file you want to upload to youtube.
You’ll find yourself in trouble as there is a limit to the filesize you can upload.
Where you needed to download and install bloatware in Windows to accomplish this,
it’s super easy in Linux.
ffmpeg will do the trick.
Say you want to cut the flash movie in pieces of 10 minutes, you can do this like this:
So, quite some time ago I made the mistake of buying the ATI Radeon HD 6870 without first checking if it would play nice with my Ubuntu 10.10 desktop.
Turned out it didn’t 🙁
But now, there are proprietary Linux drivers released by ATI/AMD
First, you should update your system (just to be sure).
The Linux 2.6.38 kernel carries the ATI Radeon HD 6000 open source support. (just fyi!)
If you encounter problems or found this post helpful, it would be nice to leave a comment below.
This way, I can adjust it to the needs of my readers.
So I’ve been using my Targa NT9231 as a home sever (Running Ubuntu 10.10 server edition) for a while now.
It’s been serving several purposes such as internal webserver, irssi, monitoring and tunneling/proxy server.
As all wise people should do, I’ve been using OpenSSH to connect to it.
Solely connected to it from my netbook, as my desktop Ubuntu computer died after the purchase of a new ATI (curse you) Graphics card.
But now, I managed to revive my desktop (yay!) and wanted to log in on my server.
Setted up the key and wanted to transfer it to my authorized hosts file… but that gave me a bloody error:
Permission denied (publickey).
So I started to digg around and checked filepermissions, ssh_config file etc… But all seemed ok.
But then I found this little nasty openSSH Bug on launchpad.
Simply running “ssh-add” on the client fixed the problem!
Ssh-add adds identities to the authentication agent, ssh–agent. When run without arguments, it adds the file %HOME%/.ssh/identity. Alternative file names can be given on the command line. If any file requires a passphrase, ssh-add asks for the passphrase from the user.
I’m not sure how this could’ve helped, but hey, its a workaround that actually works 🙂
Here’s a short and easy way to set your system and hardware clock from the command line.
Open your terminal and follow these steps.
First check the current time of your hardwareclock:
hwclock -r
Then add the right date/time to your systemclock.
In the example provided you’ll find some strange long number.
You have to read it like this (from left to right): [01] = month (Jan) | [14] = day | [0231] = time (02:31) | [2011] = year
sudo date 011402312011
Now sync your hardware clock with the date/time you’ve just set:
So, I’m still working on that immo website.
On some GridView.aspx page, users see a GridView with all items in my database.
I added a select button in front of each row.
I want the to redirect the user to some other page DetailsView.aspx when he/she clicked the button.
The problem, there is no redirect option in the GUI.
Again, Microsoft… loose the markup options in the Properties window and add some more functionality.
The solution for the people out there with the same frustration:
Double click the GridView item in your GUI.
You’ll get something as:
Protected Sub GridView1_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles GridView1.SelectedIndexChanged
End Sub
Now add the following code (note that this is in vb, so if you use C#, adjust the syntax)
Protected Sub GridView1_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles GridView1.SelectedIndexChanged
Response.Redirect("DetailsView.aspx?ID=" & GridView1.SelectedValue)
End Sub
You might also want to add or modify some lines in your sqlDatasource (of the destination page) to match these lines.
This way you’ll see the DetailView of the item you clicked in the GridView.
So, It’s been a while since I’ve set up my home server to use it as a swiss army knife at home and on the road.
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When you have a dual boot with Windows and Ubuntu you might experience some time travelling when rebooting to windows.
Say, you have a huge flv flash file you want to upload to youtube.
So, quite some time ago I made the mistake of buying the ATI Radeon HD 6870 without first checking if it would play nice with my Ubuntu 10.10 desktop.
So I’ve been using my Targa NT9231 as a home sever (Running Ubuntu 10.10 server edition) for a while now.
