Putting Jenkins behind auth_basic Nginx reverse proxy
We have all been there and done that. And a simple Nginx reverse proxy with basic password authentication is no different. But what about putting Jen…
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Change LUKS disk encryption key
This morning I wanted to "cleanup" the work laptop to pass it over to a new colleague in the team. Then I remembered that I have used my LU…
How to protect against the Bash Bug (ShellShock)
I will not explain in technical details how yesterday's freshly released Bash Bug exploit works as there are already millions of articles spreadi…
If you can RTFM, we WANT YOU!
So yesterday I was tasked to take care of putting up a job description for a devops engineer in our team. This is what I came up, and to my surprise,…
Compiling FontForge2 on Centos 6
As devops engineer I get often challenged by PHP developers to install cutting edge (almost bleeding!) packages against a conservative and stable dis…
Github primer - pushing code remotely
Someone has recently asked me to give him a no-brainer procedure to push a git repository onto github. So here it is for everyone's convenience..…
See timestamp with Linux history command
You can see a recollection of commands on a linux system by using the history command. I would like to share with you a good trick to not only see t…
The ultimate Linux screen tip
Ok maybe all my blog titles about Linux screen tool seem exaggerated but I cannot stress enough how this tool boosts my productivity! One of my bigge…
Insert a line at start of file in Linux
Adding a line at the end of file is very simple in Linux with the '>>' redirector. But adding a line at the beginning of the file entai…
More Linux Screen tricks
How to detach the screen from within another screen? Ctrl-a a d How to rename window? Ctrl-a A
Perl parallel tasks using fork
I am working on a Perl application which needs to do repetitive tasks. As such I am using the mighty fork() - actually to make things easier for myse…
Perl thread vs fork
After an extensive research on parallel processing with Perl I came to the conclusion when to use threads and when to use forks. 1. If you have a s…
From gedit to geany
I want to hit myself for not discovering geany earlier. This is a fantastic lightweight IDE/text-editor for Linux. Do yourselves a favor and install…
Add workspaces in Linux Mint Cinnamon
Although the Cinnamon desktop environment is available to every Linux distro, it is much more widespread and popular among the Linux Mint users. One …
Remove meta information of JPG files in Linux
To remove, edit and manipulate meta data inside JPG en-masse`, you can use a tool called exiftool . Since this is a perl module you can either instal…
Resizing and editing multiple photos in Linux
One of the easiest ways to manipulate a multitude of images inside Linux is by using the Imagemagick suite of tools, particularly the 'convert…
Ripping a DVD in Linux
You can simply use mencoder to rip a DVD in linux, and use it as follows: $ mencoder dvd://1 -ovc lavc -lavcopts \ vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vbitrate="…
Drop/Truncate tables quickly in MySQL
Today I learned a nifty trick from the PalominoDB MySQL geeks to improve the delete or truncate time in MySQL. In both delete and truncate the table …
Linux DropBox syncing custom folders
As of the writing of this article, DropBox on Linux does not let you sync your work folders, but rather just lets you to take a separate copy. Even i…
Setting up a Linux box as a router
If you have a virtual machine in a Linux host which requires Internet and physical LAN connectivity, or you just need to pass all traffic of a LAN th…
