Scott Mcintyre

Today I needed to mount one of my USB sticks on windows to copy some files over. To get windows to recognise it I altered/etc/mke2fs.conf and done the following. Removed ext_addr from “base_features” and commented out the inode_size line. Here is a diff from the default ubuntu e2fsprogs /etc/mke2fs.conf with the necessary changes, — /etc/mke2fs.orig.conf [...]

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When posting code it wasn’t wrapping text properly on my blog due to how narrow it is. Luckily there’s some easy code that already exists to solve this so reposting it. I found it at height: 120px; overflow: auto; font-family: “Consolas”,monospace; font-size: 9pt; text-align:left; background-color: #FCF7EC; overflow-x: auto; /* Use horizontal scroller if needed; for [...]

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I had set myself a goal to make around 20 blog posts per year, it’s now almost December and I still have not bothered. It is safe to say I am not exactly prolific. I decided that I would learn python, surprisingly it’s been really easy to pick up and I thought I would share [...]

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Using r1soft mySQL addon to setup mySQL replication slaves requiring read locks in seconds rather than hours for non transactional tables.

So another year has passed and I have made 0 entries to the blog. This shall be the 8th post in 6 years. I thought it would be only fitting that I atleast end the year with a blog post and a commitment to blog more in 2011. This blog post will be about what [...]

Last Sunday I had a new customer sign up to our Linux Server Management company and one of the issues they were receiving was bandwidth overages for continual outbound DoS attacks their system was performing but they were unable to track. So in effort to find the initial cause of this with no real data [...]

Tags: apache status, bandwidth graph, bandwidth network monitor, cacti, cacti graphs, cacti monitoring, mrtg graphs, outbound dos, outbound firewall, php ddos, php dos, posix acl, server management, traffic graph, udp.pl

Tired of paying someone to setup your server? Want a quick way to setup thousands of domains? Read on… I have made a quick guide on how to setup a server specifically for MFA sites from start to finish. The server will consist of, Web server – Apache Database – mySQL Scripting Language – PHP [...]

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