While attempting to install a deb package on a slackware system I wanted to check the install script that the package runs. I tried the deb2tgz utility but unfortunately that only left me the files in the package in a ready to install .tgz file. Here’s how to unpack a .deb to obtain both...
Log dropped packets using CentOS Firewall
Please take care modifying your firewall. If you don’t understand what’s being done here you may lock yourself out of your machine. You’ve been warned ! In order to log dropped packets on the INPUT chain I replaced this: View Code BASH1 -A INPUT -i eth0 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited with this View Code...
Fixing a self pressing button on an Asus VW202SR monitor
Well, today instead of working I had the pleasure of fixing the monitor The monitor is an older Asus VW202 SR that my wife uses connected to the laptop. I tried everything else (power cycling, another signal cable, another computer) but it turns out to be really the button. The issue manifested itself by...
Enabling the MySQL slow query log
If you have a slow web app or website it might be because of unoptimized sql queries. You want to track and fix those and the mysql slow query log is very helpful here. Enabling the slow query log MySQL prior to 5.1.0 requires adding a setting to the MySQL my.cnf file and restart...
cbnet Ping Optimizer is killing a site
Some wise soul decided many moons ago that installing the aforementioned plugin on a site I host. The wise soul is long gone (admining websites for ngo’s as a volunteer is no fun to many ) but the site was getting more and more sluggish lately. I decided to clean a bit the many...
Cadsoft Eagle on Slackware Current 64bit
I want to start building some new electronics projects and I wanted to use some tool to build my schematics. Even if not open source Cadsoft’s Eagle seems to be the de-facto standard between hobbyists. Unfortunately trying to run the setup on Slackware gives the errors regarding to /…/bin/eagle: error while loading shared libraries:...
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