I needed to access Bing’s Webmaster Tools to have a look at the configuration for this site. I couldn’t remember the URL off hand so I decided to ‘Google’ the search term using Bing! That’s very nice of them … I guess part of Bing’s preference engine might rank pages higher depending on where the [...]
Think Carefully About Your Clever Project Names
We’re building a new exciting cluster at work using Linux HA and stuff to make it work magically. In the olden days of yore RedHat and co were using Pacemaker with the old crm (Cluster Resource Manager / Cluster Relationship Manager, pick one..) tool for cluster management, which was nice. Now it looks like RedHat [...]
Income Report March 2013
Following on from last month’s report March was quite an interesting month. Changing perspective from using this site as a simple memory dump to one that people, other than myself, would find useful lead to some interesting usage patterns, from both myself and my visitors as well as some changes to the blog! Due to [...]
Installing Magento
One of my clients wanted an E-Commerce solution for his website and after a little bit of analysis we opted for the community edition of Magento. We wanted something based on the usual LAMP stack, that was OpenSource so it could be extended, was free as in beer, had great international support, was fully featured [...]
monit: error connecting to the monit daemon
We’re rolling out monit on our new platform at the request of a vendor to manage their new service. I’ve always been dead against these kinds of automated failure recovery tools as they often require human intervention after the fact anyway and all the platforms I’ve managed will have failed the server anyway so why [...]
Odd Occurrences In Apache Access Logs
I’ve been watching my Awstats installation this month as idimmu.net is about to peak with over 7000 unique visitors in a month for the first time in it’s history, which is pretty awesome. But there’s been something really weird going on in the results .. This is kind of ironic as in a recent job [...]
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Experiments In Bitcoin
Earlier today I got in to discussing Bitcoin Arbitrage with a mate of mine, with the cunning plan of creating a bot to monitor different exchanges and profit on the difference in trading prices. After an analysis this was deemed a silly idea, or conversely we aren’t good enough, as moving real money or bitcoins [...]
Android Create AVD
The second part of this series covers creating our first Android Virtual Device or AVD. The Android Virtual Device (AVD) is basically a configuration for the Android SDK’s emulator that lets you define the hardware and software characteristics of an actual Android advice that you can then test your code on. Whilst not being as [...]
Install Android Eclipse
Hi guys, when telling a story it’s always best to start at the beginning, so the first thing to do on my journey is talk about how are we going to install Android Eclipse. My workstation is a MacBook but the process is the same on both Windows and Linux. I’ve put together a short [...]
10 Most Used Linux Commands
Whilst skimming my Bash history today looking for an esoteric one liner I’d written earlier I started to ponder what my most used commands were, it’s easy enough to find out! This is actually output from my Mac, not a Linux box, I tricked you Chill:~ rus$ history | awk {‘print $2′} | sort | [...]
About The Author
Arrogant, narcissistic and imperatively logical. I first started coding in the mid 80s on an Amstrad 6128, entering games found in the back of Amstrad Action.
After watching Hackers and falling in love with Angelina Jolie I installed Slackware 2.0 on a P200 in 1997and spent the next 6-7 years studying computery things at various colleges and universities.
Several years later I can now be found in an office premises by day sat in front of a Macbook, using a Windows VM to manage Linux servers, or in a field by night, fire dancing and holding pyrotechnics casually in my hands whilst they explode.
Occasionally I write code.
