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Looky what UPS brought me!

Posted by Nick Devito at Jun 23, 2008 08:29 PM |

I decided to "splurge" (by my standards, eheh) and buy a new camera lens.

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Anyone want a free Piwik account?

Posted by Nick Devito at Jun 13, 2008 02:50 PM |

To help spread the love of open source web statistics, I've decided to give away hosted Piwik accounts on my server.

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How to Make Your Cronjobs Shutup (or Why I love Unix Redirections)

How to Make Your Cronjobs Shutup (or Why I love Unix Redirections)

Posted by Nick Devito at Jun 09, 2008 07:00 PM |
Filed under: sysadmin gentoo linux

It's quite simple to make your cronjobs shutup by redirecting stdout to /dev/null. You'll still get stuff when errors happen.

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Site Traffic - How do I get it?

Site Traffic - How do I get it?

Posted by Nick Devito at Jun 09, 2008 05:50 PM |
Filed under: website

In short, I've added Piwik to my site and I've added my blog to Technorati in an attempt to gain some more traffic to my site

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CGIT - Gitweb on Crack.

CGIT - Gitweb on Crack.

Posted by Nick Devito at Jun 09, 2008 04:15 AM |
Filed under: scm git lighttpd gentoo server

I decided to setup a web frontend to my Git repositories. After spending half an hour fighting with Gitweb, I decided to try cgit.

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Asterisk Phone UI?

Asterisk Phone UI?

Posted by Nick Devito at Jun 08, 2008 03:15 AM |
Filed under: brainstorming voip

With the arrival of my Cisco 7940G coming soon, I was beginning to think of ways to utilize the nice features of the phone, mainly the web browser.

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How to disable those pesky "Send To" links in Plone

How to disable those pesky "Send To" links in Plone

Posted by Nick Devito at Jun 05, 2008 02:40 PM |
Filed under: plone spam

Getting tired of people abusing the sendto links in Plone, I decided to go to #plone on Freenode and find out how to disable it. Since there doesn't appear to be much documentation for it, I'll document it here.

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Securing your Gentoo box (Part 1: SSH)

Securing your Gentoo box (Part 1: SSH)

Posted by Nick Devito at May 01, 2008 04:40 PM |
Filed under: security gentoo

Many Gentoo users worry about security, especially when they are running high-profile boxes. Here are a few security tips that I use.

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Postfix/Dovecot and Yo^H^HLDAP.

Posted by Nick Devito at Apr 27, 2008 04:40 PM |
Filed under: postfix dovecot gentoo ldap

Postfix/Dovecot using LDAP is one of those things that aren't documented too well (least from my experience). I'd like to give thanks to Hans Fugal (elg) for pastebinning his configuration files!

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Server reinstall

Posted by admin at Apr 26, 2008 05:50 PM |
Filed under: server gentoo ldap

Following a borked OpenRC update, I decided to reinstall Gentoo on my server.

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