Monday, June 28, 2010
Sendmail Smart Host Config on RHEL
Just a reminder for those (like me) who always forget where to do this.
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Friday, June 25, 2010
Adobe murders flash 64-bit for Linux
As usual, The Register delivers the news in its own inimitable way.
Adobe euthanizes Flash 10.1 for 64-bit Linux: ‘Expects’ 64bitness later
On Thursday, the company took the beta tag off the 32-bit Flash Player 10.1 for Windows, Linux, and Mac, and it released a slew of security updates for versions 10.0.45.2 and earlier. But at the same time, it posted a statement to the Adobe Labs page announcing the end of the Flash 10.1 for 64-bit Linux beta.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Mounting CIFS Shares
Had this idea that being able to publish CIFS (”Common Internet File System”, a/k/a Windows SMB) shares off a NAS device through a Linux web server might be useful. Since I haven’t worked with the samba client for awhile, I wasn’t aware that smbmount has gone the way of the dodo. The new, improved, way is to use a “mount -f cifs” command. For example:
mount -t cifs //10.0.1.10/shared -o username='DOMAIN\plembo',password=mypass /var/www/html/docshare
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Google custom search
Just added Google Custom Search to this blog, thereby addressing one of the biggest complaints I’ve gotten since the migration to Flatpress. Google Custom Search is a service offered by the web app megagiant for those who don’t have the time, intelligence or self-discipline to craft their own search engine. Because I fit into all three categories, implementing custom search on this site was really a no-brainer.[Read More…]
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Flatpress prettyurls
Now that I’ve remade this site with Flatpress, I’ve learned a great deal more about how the software works. One really useful feature that it comes with is the prettyurls plugin, which displays nicely formatted permalinks for entries in the standard /yyyy/mm/dd/article-title-here/ format. This should prove helpful for those who previously linked to the Wordpress version of this site (although not completely, since I had the bad habit of massaging link text arbitrarily). The plugin makes extensive use of Apache’s mod_rewrite to work its magic, and requires that your host’s httpd.conf enables
AllowOverride Options FileInfo
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