Posts from 2008

Large print jobs silently fail when the CUPS spool directory runs out of disk space on the print server — print in smaller batches as a workaround.

Lanka Bell billed for web space and webmail that their own sales team had no record of — a cautionary tale for new broadband subscribers in Sri Lanka.

Build a dual-WiMAX home router on Debian with Shorewall for firewalling and traffic shaping across Dialog Broadband and Lanka Bell connections.

Monit is a lightweight open source Unix tool that automatically monitors and restarts processes, files, and services — far simpler to set up than Nagios or ZABBIX.

Fix ALSA locking and OpenVPN routing issues after upgrading a Lenovo 3000 N200 from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10, with config changes for snd-hda-intel and NetworkManager.

Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex releases tomorrow with GNOME 2.24, kernel 2.6.27, Network Manager 0.7, encrypted private directories, and guest session support.

Check your Google PageRank without installing the Google Toolbar using this free online tool — understand how inbound links affect your site's importance score.

Use one memcached server with multiple vanilla WordPress installations by setting a unique $blog_id in wp-config.php and applying a small object-cache.php patch.

Move from Blogger to WordPress without losing SEO or permalinks — import posts, install the maintain-permalinks plugin, and set a matching custom permalink structure.

The Sri Lanka Postal Codes search gets Google Maps integration, auto-complete, and a regional details section showing all post offices by province and district.

Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) makes EC2 persistent storage simple, replacing the complex Duplicity and chroot approach described in an earlier post.

Poll-n-Ping gets a new release with improved features and a critical bug fix in user registration — making automated blog pinging more reliable than ever.