plays with linux (mainly ubuntu) , enjoying the landscapes and good food of the Causses of southwest of France among other cool things
darkish-diaspora usertyle
It is the very first release and thus it is not complete and may have some bugs and glitches.
here it is (on userstyles.org for easiest install) : http://userstyles.org/styles/88642/darkish-diaspora
Munin is a very efficient monitoring tool with plenty of plugins, even for nginx, but it needs a bit of configuration to work.. This little tutorial aims to show you how to setup nginx and munin to have nginx requests and status monitored in munin.
The tutorial was written for ubuntu (12.04) but it should work for other distributions (with maybe some modifications).
Here is a short tip to avoid having the red warning page in google chrome for https (SSL) websites you trust (ie: https websites with self-signed certificates), we can usse certutil to add the certificate.
First, check you have libnss3-tools package installed or install it :
sudo apt-get install libnss3-tools
Then here is how you can add a self-signed certificate according to this chromium project wiki page.
certutil -d sql:$HOME/.pki/nssdb -A -t "P,," -n <certificate_name> -i </path/to/certificate_file>
<certificate_name> is the name of the certificate, </path/to/certificate_file> is the path to the imported certificate file (absolute or relative path)
This command allow to list certificates :
certutil -d sql:$HOME/.pki/nssdb -L # list certificates, append -n <certificate nickname> for cert details
I’m aware that Xen or KVM are much more used and recommended to create and mange virtual machines on a server, but for some reasons I needed to use Virtualbox. Here is a short note on how to install virtualbox on ubuntu, and how-to use it without GUI (graphical interface) to create and manage your VM’s (Virtual Machines).
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Tmux, like screen, allows to open serveral tty in the same terminal window. It has plenty of cool features and a much more readble configuration syntax than screen.
Tmux is really flexible on how you handle windows, attach or dettach different windows in different sessions is not a problem.
Tmux also have a interactive command interface where you can use the same commands as in $HOME/.tmux.conf file.
It is also easily scriptable and have multiple paste buffers.
simple as :
gst-launch-0.10 pulsesrc device=alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor ! audioconvert ! lame bitrate=256 mode=stereo ! filesink location=input.mp3
The device name (alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo for me) may vary. You can use the command : pactl list to list all pulseaudio connections, grab the name for “Destination #0″. Note that you need to add a .monitor extension when you call it with gst-launch
I like the messages UI of empathy but still prefer the flexibility of pidgin. So, I used this tutorial to install pidgin webkit plugin with tiny modifications that make it even easier.
This plugin make pidgin able to use adium styles (not all will work though).
Here is how I proceeded :
Assuming you can’t configure your apache server to use hg fast cgi script, or you don’t have apache, here is another solution :
using hg –serve with nginx as proxy for authentication
Ok, new year, new decade and a new desktop.
New ? not exactly. It takes most of my prebious desktop features and ressources with some changes and evolutions.
I’m trying to give you most of the details and ressources (orignals and my mods) bellow, in case you need to ask for something that missing, feel free to comments.
Happy new year to all 
I’ve just got a brand new HP Probook 5310m. It’s a really cute and efficient piece of hardware and almost everything worked out of the box after installing an ubuntu karmic 9.10.