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Posts Categorized: Linux
Test IE virtual machines made easy
I just have to take a minute and thank @xdissent et al. for the amazing work done on ievms. I was able to install IE 6,7,8 and 9 virtual machines without hardly any work on my part. I am running Ubuntu 12.04, and after uninstalling the virtualbox package found in the standard repository and installing… Read more »
How to load test your web site or application with siege
Your mileage may vary, but this worked well for me. I wanted to test one of our sites under load. Our sites generally get a lot of traffic, so when we move from staging to production we have to keep in mind that we’re about to go from 1 or 2 developers hitting the pages… Read more »
Hard disk filling up? Check the MySQL binlog.
Last night our monitoring system started throwing errors about a hard drive filling up on one of our servers. Nothing out of the ordinary was going on, but I was doing some maintenance on one of the sites and removing some old spam comments from the system. We use wordpress, and it provides a handy… Read more »
Why is udev renaming my network interfaces?
It was driving me nuts. I was setting up a few virtual servers and the network interfaces were not showing up. I looked in dmesg and there were some odd lines that looked like this. udev: renamed network interface eth1 to eth2 udev: renamed network interface eth0_rename to eth1 It turns out that udev that… Read more »
Asus Laptop Reclaimed
I’ve successfully installed Debian Linux on an old Asus Laptop. My wife used it for a few years, but she was trying to use it for word processing, and a few of the keys stick every now and then. It’s been a goal of mine to get it running a newer version of linux, but… Read more »
PHP Safe Mode
I just ran into a problem with a WordPress blog I was setting up. I couldn’t upload any images or files to it. It turns out, my hosting provider, Nearly Free Speech.net, uses PHP safe_mode by default. It’s not that difficult to overcome, but it can be confusing when you run into it. Basically, it… Read more »