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Bookmarks for 1 feb 2012 through 2 feb 2012

jtheo — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:01:06 +0000

These are my links for 1 feb 2012 through 2 feb 2012:

WP WAF – WordPress Web Application Firewall | Gianni Amato – Ecco la preview di ciò che inizialmente è nato come IDS per monitorare gli attacchi ai miei blog e man mano cresciuto fino a prendere le sembianze di un IPS.
WP WAF è un plugin per WordPress (leggero e per nulla invasivo) il cui scopo è quello di bloccare ed eventualmente notificare alla propria casella di posta i dettagli dell’attacco alla piattaforma.

[via http://www.afhome.org/2012/02/01/un-firewall-per-wordpress/ ]
Sumo Paint | Online Image Editor – Sumo Paint – online image editor and drawing application
PHP and AJAX shell console – Ever wanted to execute commands on your server through php to mimick a shell login? Now you can. I'm calling this file (see below) shell.php and it allows you to run commands on your web server with the same permissions that your php executable has.

Bookmarks for 26 gen 2012 through 31 gen 2012

jtheo — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:01:10 +0000

These are my links for 26 gen 2012 through 31 gen 2012:

ownCloud.org | Your Cloud, Your Data, Your Way! – ownCloud gives you easy and universal access to all of your files.
It also provides a platform to easily view, sync and share your contacts, calendars, bookmarks and files across all your devices.
ownCloud 3 brings loads of new features and hundred of fixes…
Windows7 – SambaWiki – Samba versions supporting Windows7 Domain Logon
[mammmmmmma mia la Microsoft...]
Free Email Archiving and Backup Software – MailStore Home – Email archiving, backup & migration – MailStore Home
Our free, easy to use email archiving software for personal use

Bookmarks for 5 gen 2012 through 25 gen 2012

jtheo — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:01:16 +0000

These are my links for 5 gen 2012 through 25 gen 2012:

MySQL permissions for backup | OpenConcept Mobile Site – It's a really good idea to use a least-privilege approach to most system administration tasks, and especially automated ones. This post describes using a "read only" MySQL user to handle backing up MySQL databases.
We use mysqldump to backup our databases on a regular basis, using scripts like this one
MuckNet » Blog Archive » MySQL Permissions for backup using mysqldump and/or ec2-consistent-snapshot – Using root for your MySQL backups is a bad idea boys and girls. You should dedicate a user to doing your backups. Below are a few options for setting up minimum permissions for your dedicated mysql backup user
[memento mori]
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware | Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware – Software made the wiki way. – What is Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware? Tiki is a powerful, web-based application, created by a large team of contributors. Tiki is the ideal tool for you to build and maintain your Website/Wiki/Groupware/CMS/Forum/Blog/Bug Tracker or any other project you can imagine running in your browser window.
Tiki is free, both Free Software (as in "Free Speech") and Free of Charge (as in "Free Beer"), and for everyone! It has all the features you need "out-of-the-box":
Wikis (like Wikipedia)
Forums (like phpBB)
Blogs (like WordPress)
Articles (like Yahoo News)
Image Gallery (like Flickr)
Map Server (like Google Maps)
Link Directory (like DMOZ)
Multilingual (like Babel Fish)
Bug Tracker (like Bugzilla)
RSS Feeds (like Digg)
Free Open Source software (LGPL)

[ via http://www.gpaterno.com/2011/12/23/create-a-secure-intranetextranet-with-tikiwiki-and-securepass/ ]
Create a secure intranet/extranet with TikiWiki and SecurePass – Giuseppe Paternò – [...]
In this market segment, there’s still a need for a secure corporate intranet with the need to exchange private information and files. Collaborative places, such as wikis, are perfect solutions to quickly achieve this goal without spending a fortune. I found TikiWiki (http://www.tiki.org/) to suit best in these environments: while extremely easy to use for an end-user through WYSYWIG editor, the complex permission system allow you to set each page access or even show/hide part of the page to a given group of users, which is unique if compared to other solutions
[...]

Bookmarks for 30 dic 2011 through 2 gen 2012

jtheo — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:09:06 +0000

These are my links for 30 dic 2011 through 2 gen 2012:

fahd.blog: Find Blocking Processes Using sp_who [Sybase] – If a user has executed an insert/update on a table, but not committed the transaction, other users will find that their queries on the same table hang. This is because the table has been locked and the first user's process is blocking everyone else's.
Pocket Survival Guide – NetApp –
30 Best Sources For Linux / *BSD / Unix Documentation On the Web – Here are thirty best documentation sites on the web for learning Linux and Unix like operating systems.
OpenShift by Red Hat – What is OpenShift?
OpenShift, is a portfolio of free, portable cloud services for deploying and managing applications in the cloud. Currently there are two application deployment services offered as part of OpenShift; Express & Flex.

What is OpenShift Express and when should I use it?
Express is a free, cloud-based application platform for Java, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby applications delivered in a shared-hosting model. With just a few commands you’ll be able to deploy your application to the cloud.

What is OpenShift Flex and why should I use it?
Flex is a cloud-based application platform for Java EE and PHP. Applications can be deployed on middleware components such as JBoss and Tomcat. Flex is an ideal platform for those who require a greater degree of control and choice over their middleware components with valuable features including versioning, monitoring and auto-scaling.
saidar – saidar is a curses-based tool for viewing the system statistics available through libstatgrab. Statistics include CPU, processes, load, memory, swap, network I/O, disk I/O, and file system information.
"like a small nmon"
[ via http://www.spippolazione.net/index.php/2011/12/30/saidar ]

Bookmarks for 23 dic 2011 through 28 dic 2011

jtheo — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:10:00 +0000

These are my links for 23 dic 2011 through 28 dic 2011:

E-MailRelay — SMTP proxy and store-and-forward MTA – E-MailRelay is a simple SMTP proxy and store-and-forward message transfer agent (MTA). When running as a proxy all e-mail messages can be passed through a user-defined program, such as a spam filter, which can drop, re-address or edit messages as they pass through. When running as a store-and-forward MTA incoming messages are stored in a local spool directory, and then forwarded to the next SMTP server on request.
Because of its functional simplicity E-MailRelay is easy to configure, often only requiring the address of the target SMTP server to be put on the command line.

E-MailRelay can also run as a POP3 server. Messages received over SMTP can be automatically dropped into several independent POP3 mailboxes.

C++ source code is available for Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X etc, and Windows. Distribution is under the GNU General Public License V3.
IBM developerWorks : Training : Knowledge path : Overview – Knowledge paths are focused learning guides that bring together diverse training resources for IT professionals:
   How-to articles
   Free trial software
   Discussion forums
   Educational videos and podcasts
   Hands-on exercises
These resources are specifically chosen by subject matter experts, and arranged in sequence to guide you from conceptual awareness to task mastery.
Master Sheet Learn VI – The VI editor is a screen-based editor used by many Unix users. The VI editor has powerful features to aid programmers. If you master the use of Vim text editor, it can be a very powerful tool in your hands, and allow you to do amazing text editing feats with just a few taps on your keyboard.
Many beginning users avoid using VI because the different features overwhelm them. To overcome it and practice it more you can use VI in bash. I have also collected some of the short cut keys which will be useful for you to learn VI
XWiki – Open Source Wiki and Content-Oriented Application Platform (Main.WebHome) – XWiki.org – The XWiki project offers both a generic platform for developing collaborative applications using the wiki paradigm and products developed on top of it. All XWiki software is developed in Java and under the LGPL open source license.
It's also a second generation wiki offering the ability to install and develop small applications inside wiki pages.
Export wiki pages to PDF, ODT, RTF, XML or HTML. Easily turn Office documents (MS Office, Open Office, PDF, etc) into wiki pages.
Use XWiki's RESTful and XML/RPC remote APIs to easily integrate XWiki with your application.
Documents are stored in a relational database. Use your favorite database.
Create applications by grouping several pages together. Import and export Applications to/from your wiki.
various authentication mechanisms suported by XWiki (Form, Basic, LDAP, Custom, etc).
Install/update/remove extensions in/from the wiki
Allows creating XWiki macros through wiki pages

Bookmarks for 21 dic 2011 through 23 dic 2011

jtheo — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:56:36 +0000

These are my links for 21 dic 2011 through 23 dic 2011:

XWiki – Open Source Wiki and Content-Oriented Application Platform (Main.WebHome) – XWiki.org – The XWiki project offers both a generic platform for developing collaborative applications using the wiki paradigm and products developed on top of it. All XWiki software is developed in Java and under the LGPL open source license.
It's also a second generation wiki offering the ability to install and develop small applications inside wiki pages.
Export wiki pages to PDF, ODT, RTF, XML or HTML. Easily turn Office documents (MS Office, Open Office, PDF, etc) into wiki pages.
Use XWiki's RESTful and XML/RPC remote APIs to easily integrate XWiki with your application.
Documents are stored in a relational database. Use your favorite database.
Create applications by grouping several pages together. Import and export Applications to/from your wiki.
various authentication mechanisms suported by XWiki (Form, Basic, LDAP, Custom, etc).
Install/update/remove extensions in/from the wiki
Allows creating XWiki macros through wiki pages
OpenSource-IT.com – Finding the open source solutions ready for the enterprise
Ring of Saturn Internetworking – These documents and tools were created by me while I worked at Verio as well as all the time since then. As such, there are still some references to "customers" and maybe even some procedures we used while I worked there. Since the content is just fine, just a bit weird to read, I haven't updated these and am focusing more on adding new content rather than fixing these "bugs".

Bookmarks for 9 dic 2011 through 13 dic 2011

jtheo — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:00:25 +0000

These are my links for 9 dic 2011 through 13 dic 2011:

BAT file tips | Alex @ Net – Let's play with BAT files a little. As you may know, BAT files are intended to be run and processed by the MS command processor, named cmd.exe, and the programming language they are created with is very close to BASIC. The early versions of the BAT-files language (which comes from famous Windows ancestor, MS-DOS) were very limited. Nowadays it has more features and a few days ago I created a small collection of interesting tricks, related to BAT file programming. You can check the following examples that demonstrate which execution flow controlling statements BAT-file language has and show their analogs in PHP.
10 Tools To Add Some Spice To Your UNIX Shell Scripts – here are some misconceptions that shell scripts are only for a CLI environment. You can easily use various tools to write GUI and/or network (socket) scripts under KDE or Gnome desktops. Shell scripts can make use of some of the GUI widget (menus, warning boxs, progress bars etc). You can always control the final output, cursor position on screen, various output effects, and so on. With the following tools you can build powerful, interactive, user friendly UNIX / Linux bash shell scripts.
Nagios plugin for ASE – SybaseWiki – When you are using Nagios (http://www.nagios.org) as a monitoring tool, it's real easy to implement your own checks for Sybase servers. Here's a sample check to see if your ASE server is up and connectable.

Bookmarks for 6 dic 2011 through 7 dic 2011

jtheo — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:01:26 +0000

These are my links for 6 dic 2011 through 7 dic 2011:

Monitor Your Website in Real-Time with Apachetop – How-To Geek – As a webmaster, I’ve often wanted to be able to see real-time hits as they arrive. Sure, Google Analytics is a wonderful package for looking at trends over time, but there’s a delay of a few hours there, and you really can’t see data like requests per second or total bytes.
This is where the apachetop utility comes in. It’s a very simple command line utility that you can use to monitor traffic real-time. It accomplishes this by parsing the apache logfiles and displaying meaningful output to the screen.
Ashwin Jayaprakash’s Blog: The little gem that is BusyBox (for Windows) – As a Windows user (no shame) I have, for years searched for a simple GNU-like toolkit – grep, awk, tail and other such goodies enjoyed by Linux users. Yes, there's Cygwin but it's a beast – too big and a pain to install. Sometimes, I've even resorted to starting a Linux VMWare image just to run a simple awk script to munge some log files.
pclouds/busybox-w32 – GitHub – Win32 native port for Busybox (latest build can bw found in the below link)

Bookmarks for 3 dic 2011 from 12:06 to 16:02

jtheo — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 15:01:00 +0000

These are my links for 3 dic 2011 from 12:06 to 16:02:

Couch to 5k – C25K Running Program – C25K, is a fantastic program that's been designed to get just about anyone from the couch to running 5 kilometers or 30 minutes in just 9 weeks.
With the help of the Couch to 5k program, In less than seven months, I went from a 47 year old, 104kg, 30 cigarettes a day sort of guy to an 82kg, 0 cigarettes, running 45 to 50 kilometers a week sort of guy. Ten months after finishing C25K I completed my first marathon. Since then I have run another 4 marathons, as well as 6 ultra marathons including a 100km race.

And I'm not the only one, C25K has been responsible for getting thousands of couch potatoes up and running.

Its secret is that it's a gentle introduction to getting the body moving, starting off alternating between walking and running small distances, and slowly building up until after 8 weeks, you're ready to run 5 kilometers or 30 minutes non stop.

[via http://www.pseudotecnico.org/blog/ ]
How to obtain WWNs of Fibre Channel Cards in Windows, Linux and Netware 6 | Koen Vereeken – I've made a very simple script that prints WWNs for QLogic and Emulex cards. This script will search in pre-defined directories where drivers for these cards will store their FCC information.
HBA WWN: How to Find Qlogic or Emulex HBA Card WWN Address on Linux – Question: How do I lookup the wwn address of my HBA card installed on the Linux system. I need this information to create zoning on my fiber channel switch.

Bookmarks for 23 nov 2011 through 30 nov 2011

jtheo — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:01:39 +0000

These are my links for 23 nov 2011 through 30 nov 2011:

BILL – Bill strives to be a solution for developing applications which can be run on platforms with limited resources (e.g. embedded systems) on top of the GNU Bash shell, with a focus on quality and reusability of shell code.
Check_whois – Use this plugin with Nagios to be notified when a domain is about to expire.
TIP: Debug squid ACL matches – The FreeBSD Forums – For tricky squid ACL troubleshooting situations, it is helpful to be able to see which access control entries a request matches and does not match. This information can be discovered easily using squid's debugging facility.