plays with linux (mainly ubuntu) , enjoying the landscapes and good food of the Causses of southwest of France among other cool things
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).
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.
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.
Here is my second eee desktop setup for november.
GTK Theme is devART Autumn 09 edition metacity comes from Sugar suite.
I made a few modifications to gtkrc, I’ll try to update this post with a diff between original and mine.
Conkyrc is the same as last time.
The dock is cairo-dock with a custom theme (prefer the packages from cairo-dock repositories than the one from ubuntu repositories).
The clock is a cairo-dock detached desklet.
I change colors of the wallpaper, original is here
Update : as promised, here is the diff between original gtkrc file and my modified one :
I discovered yesterday, after reading this article, a bios option to overclock my eee pc processor.
Here is a short but very handy (at least for me 
) chaetsheet for vim commands
Here is my november setup on my Asus eee 1101HA, running ubuntu jaunty (9.04) with gnome.
I have to try a lighter environment because gnome eats too much memory, unfortunately no time at the moment.
You’ll find below most of the used ressources in this setup.