Migrating a PostgreSQL DB to a new machine without doing a dump & restore
rsync over NFS can be so fast.
Forcing WordPress administration over SSL
TweetI never like typing a password into a non-SSL site, no matter how trivial it is. In order to give my own site this ability I simply used mod_rewrite to force requests to WordPress’s admin pages to go over SSL. The .htaccess file for the site looks like this: # BEGIN WordPress <ifModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine [...]
HOWTO: Install Flash plugin on Firefox on Fedora / CentOS / RedHat Linux
TweetUpdated 8/31/2011 See my newer post on this subject. I know I’ve been through this before because I’ve setup Fedora before and it’s working. But I just installed FC12 on my desktop at home (since my Seagate drive bricked itself a few days ago and I had to reinstall anyway) and while I finally got [...]
Victory! Change Active Directory Password via LDAP through browser
TweetI had to give up on PHP and go to Perl, but it turned out not to be so bad. Users can now change their Active Directory passwords via a self-service web page that doesn’t require admin credentials. The Perl code is below. Authentication to the script is done via .htaccess LDAP authentication, so the [...]
How to install the 64-bit Sun Java plugin on 64-bit firefox on 64-bit Fedora Core 11 Linux (which happens to use 64 bits)
TweetI’m giddy! I found this post on mozdev.org which was magical. [evan@ehoffman ~]$ java -version java version “1.6.0_17″ Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_17-b04) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 14.3-b01, mixed mode) [root@ehoffman plugins]# uname -a Linux ehoffman 2.6.30.8-64.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Sep 25 04:43:32 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux [root@ehoffman plugins]# pwd [...]
Migrating RT from mysql to postgresql.
TweetSo I wanted to move our old RT 3.6 system to a new VM running a clean CentOS 5.3 x86 install and RT 3.8. I got RT installed but the 3.6 system was running on MySQL, which sucks (still), and I wanted to move it to Postgres, which rules (more and more each day). So [...]
One-click converting .avi to .mp4 for iPod or iPhone
I found a way to convert my camera’s .avi files to iPod and iPhone-compatible .mp4 files with minimal effort. The .mp4 files are also significantly smaller.
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