Wednesday September 22, 2010
Awesome awesome VIM guide
Thursday September 9, 2010
Quick, concise and useful primer on using diff/patch - not something I have to do very often.
Wednesday April 14, 2010
Fail2ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/error_log and bans IP that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address.
Tuesday February 9, 2010
Good article on SSH port forwarding, both local and remote. Including setting up forwarding properly with ssh_config
Full documentation for client-side SSH config. Lots of keywords and settings I didn't know about but are handy.
Thursday July 23, 2009
"better than grep" is not a lie. Really useful tool for searching source and code files. By default it ignores git/svn files (which often spam grep results)
Thursday June 11, 2009
Pipe viewer is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.
Thursday April 16, 2009
The basics on system daemons, why you'd write one in PHP, and some good examples.
Sunday March 22, 2009
Another bash-fu type site, better than most i've seen. Particular new favourite that gives the power "^x^y" lacked:
"!!:gs/foo/bar -- Runs previous command replacing foo by bar every time that foo appears."