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VyprVPN by Giganews Server Locations

admin — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:15:50 +0000

These are the most up-to-date server locations for connecting to the VyprVPN by Giganews.

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us1.vpn.giganews.com

us2.vpn.giganews.com

eu1.vpn.giganews.com

hk1.vpn.giganews.com

uk1.vpn.giganews.com

fr1.vpn.giganews.com

de1.vpn.giganews.com

88plug re-launches the Antiques Diva

admin — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:13:55 +0000

88plug is proud to announce the release of the Antiques Diva.

“The Antiques Diva® is the nom de plume for Toma Clark Haines, an American expat living in Europe whose life story has been liberally sprinkled with Cinderella dust. As a child growing up in Oklahoma, Toma dreamed of global adventures. While other kids drew houses with picket fences, Toma drew gondolas with men in striped shirts. After studying abroad in London in university, Toma returned home on the range to marry her college sweetheart. After saying “I do,” she immediately began whispering in his ear words of far-away places and before long her dream became his. When a serendipitous opportunity arose, offering them a chance to live and work in Europe, they moved to Paris for 5 years and then Amsterdam for 4. Along with her husband and well-traveled pet Catpuccino, Toma currently resides in Berlin nearby Brandenberg Gate and the Reichstag. ”

See the combined Store and Blog here:

www.antiquesdiva.com

Strip Tables HTML with Regular Expression

admin — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:24:21 +0000

A simple regular expression will help you. I found this particulary useful when migrating client sites.

1	</?(table\|tr\|tbody\|td\|th)(\s?[^>]*)>

HTML 5 Video Converter

admin — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:41:15 +0000

The best free and open source available for all you HTML 5 video needs(which include multiple format conversions) can easily be done with Miro Video Converter. There is little additional information available from the site, but this tool does exactly what the box says:

Convert to:
Theora
WebM
MP4 Video
MP3 (Audio Only)

Get it Here

Although the application is 32 bit, you can run multiple instances to max out your CPU. Also included are profiles for Android and Apple devices as well.

ThinkPad x201 Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Wireless

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:19:26 +0000

The ThinkPad x201 is a great platform for Ubuntu 10.04. The default installation contains an outdated version of the Thinkpad BGN wireless drivers. After first boot you can see networks(not all available), and connect to some – but in general this will give you difficulties. The recommendation is to first update your installation via-Ethernet to automatically download the patch. Upon restart, you will have a fully functional Ubuntu installation.

This is where and how it was solved:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+source/linux/+bug/567016

MySQL error /usr/libexec/mysqld: unknown option ‘–skip-bdb’

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:54:55 +0000

MySQL version 5.1.47 failing to start after upgrade? Here is the brief:

Problem: tail -f /var/log/mysqld.log

1	/usr/libexec/mysqld: unknown option '--skip-bdb'

After poking around for a quick solution, nobody seemed to release that the bdb dependncy is no longer used in /etc/my.cnf configuration file.

Old my.cnf:

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[mysqld]
set-variable=local-infile=0
query-cache-type = 1
query-cache-size = 6M

datadir=/var/lib/mysql
#socket=/usr/libexec/mysqld
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
user=mysql
# Default to using old password format for compatibility with mysql 3.x
# clients (those using the mysqlclient10 compatibility package).
old_passwords=1

skip-bdb

set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=2M
set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_thread_concurrency=2
[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
skip-bdb

set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=2M
set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_thread_concurrency=2

New:

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[mysqld]
set-variable=local-infile=0
query-cache-type = 1
query-cache-size = 6M

datadir=/var/lib/mysql
#socket=/usr/libexec/mysqld
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
user=mysql
# Default to using old password format for compatibility with mysql 3.x
# clients (those using the mysqlclient10 compatibility package).
old_passwords=1

#skip-bdb

set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=2M
set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_thread_concurrency=2
[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
#skip-bdb

set-variable = innodb_buffer_pool_size=2M
set-variable = innodb_additional_mem_pool_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_log_buffer_size=500K
set-variable = innodb_thread_concurrency=2

Add jail shelled FTP/SSH user on CentOS / Plesk

admin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 13:47:32 +0000

The process of adding a new FTP user with SSH access to a Plesk / CentOS server is more difficult than it needs to be. Plesk will only allow you to add WebUsers to your domains which have FTP accounts, not full SSH accounts. Here is the quick and dirty. We want our new user to be in chroot jail and to inherit the same permissions as another user on the system. The user will be restricted to the top level directory you define (for example httpdocs in this case).

1	cat /etc/passwd/ \| grep 'anyusername'

This will return:

anyusername:x:10009:2524::/var/www/vhosts/anydomain.com:/bin/bash

The first set of numbers after “:x:” is the UID or User Identifier. We will use this in the next command to copy the same permissions.

1	useradd -u 10009 -o -d /var/www/vhosts/anydomain.com/httpdocs/ -g psaserv -s /usr/local/psa/bin/chrootsh newusername

Replace “anydomain.com” with your domain, and “newusername” with the new user you would like to add.

1	passwd newusername

Gives the user a password.

1	usermod -s /bin/bash newusername

Boom! Done.

Extras:
For an in-depth discussion on working with rssh, chroot, and users – see UnixCraft

Settings Wireless Region Linux – Channel 13 Backtrack 4

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:50:48 +0000

One of the most recent problems I stumbled upon while running Backtrack, or any other linux distro for that matter is setting the region on a wireless card. The typical procedure is :

1	iwconfig wlan0 channel 13

And commonly you will get

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error for wireless regquest ''set frequency''
(8b04)
set failed on device wlan0 ; invalid arugment

There is an easy fix for this that will allow you to change the region mode your wireless adapter is in.

1	iw reg set FR

1	iw reg set US

Channel	Center Frequency	Frequency Spread
1	2412 MHz	2399.5 MHz – 2424.5 MHz
2	2417 MHz	2404.5 MHz – 2429.5 MHz
3	2422 MHz	2409.5 MHz – 2434.5 MHz
4	2427 MHz	2414.5 MHz – 2439.5 MHz
5	2432 MHz	2419.5 MHz – 2444.5 MHz
6	2437 MHz	2424.5 MHz – 2449.5 MHz
7	2442 MHz	2429.5 MHz – 2454.5 MHz
8	2447 MHz	2434.5 MHz – 2459.5 MHz
9	2452 MHz	2439.5 MHz – 2464.5 MHz
10	2457 MHz	2444.5 MHz – 2469.5 MHz
11	2462 MHz	2449.5 MHz – 2474.5 MHz
12	2467 MHz	2454.5 MHz – 2479.5 MHz
13	2472 MHz	2459.5 MHz – 2484.5 MHz

Acer Aspire 3690 Broadcom Wireless 43xx Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:51:13 +0000

Issue : After installing Ubuntu 9.10 wireless and wired networking are either working sporadicly or not at all. The most vanilla solution you will find.

Target : Acer Aspire 3690-2159

OS : ubuntu-9.10-desktop-i386

Hardware : Broadcom 4318 Wireless Adapter

Ensure your wireless switch is turned on in the front before reading step 1.

1. Install Ubuntu 9.10

2. Plug in active internet connection the Wired ethernet

3. Run update-manager

4. Restart after Kernel update

5. Now with internet still plugged in, goto System>Administration>Hardware Drivers

6. Select the Broadcom B43 wireless drive and click activate.

7. Type in your administrator password

8. Restart

et Voila.

Create multiple email accounts Plesk 8

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:06:33 +0000

After much hunting around and reading through the Plesk Administrator Guide I finally found an easy way for creating multiple e-mail accounts in batch! This is not a MySQL hook or database related, but stems from the logic of wanting to create multiple accounts at once.

To create an e-mail account in Plesk, first login to your server via SSH.

Execute the following:

/usr/local/psa/bin/mail --create new@yourdomain.com -passwd newpassword-cp-access false

If you want to run a batch, create a script:

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#/bin/bash

/usr/local/psa/bin/mail --create new@yourdomain.com -passwd newpassword-cp-access false

/usr/local/psa/bin/mail --create new@yourdomain.com -passwd newpassword-cp-access false

/usr/local/psa/bin/mail --create new@yourdomain.com -passwd newpassword-cp-access false

/usr/local/psa/bin/mail --create new@yourdomain.com -passwd newpassword-cp-access false