Many different interests on the web want their own Web Metadata Protocols and Schemas to allow web site operators to present data to them so they can easily place it on their pages whether it's social networks, search engines, browsers, mobile devices there are...
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Cloud based High Performance Content Serving
Just trying to conceptualize the tool chain for cloud based high performance web farm. https://www.varnish-cache.org - front end high speed reverse proxying web cache http://nginx.org/en/ - backend web server I believe that cloud providers like Rackspace and...
GIMP 2.8.10 on a Microsoft RDP Server
The last time I installed Gimp on a Microsoft Terminal Server It was a little buggy. But this time the result seems to be OK. This is on Windows Server 2008 Standard R2 in terminal services mode. Note: I don't work in an environment where I have dozens of users stress...
Insync Fedora 20 File Sync Icons Missing
Problem: Despite the insync process running the Insync Custom Icons not displaying in Nautilus under Gnome Shell in Fedora 20. Cause: nautilus-python core dumping when attempting to load insync_plugin.py (which is what enables the custom icons) Resolution: Install...
Linux PDF Annotation Support
If you want to add comments / notes and highlight text in Linux with a native PDF viewer Okular is your huckleberry Note: I found that you have to do a File ==> Save As and resave PDF documents annotated with Okular in order to be able to view the annotations in...
How to Convert from VBox to KVM
PDF: How to Convert from VBox to KVM Found these instructions lurking in my home directory but better to be here as I will find it easier
Information on Converting ext4 to btrfs on Fedora 20
http://blog.helixoide.com/blog/2013/04/09/converting-from-ext4-to-btrfs-on-fedora/ When you run the dracut step to recreate the initramfs image you can check for the correct module using: [root@pc01 boot]# cd /boot [root@pc01 boot]# zcat initramfs-`uname -r`.img |...
Linux find all files younger than
I wanted to find some files that I downloaded in the last 5 days: Basically the below command says find all files in the current directory and below with a changed time (-ctime) of less than 5 days from now. [rupert@qad_server dtlive]$ find . -ctime -10 . ./TMP6934.02...
Alternatives to the void left by avoiding the “News”
Recently I have been reading "The 4-Hour Work Week". Until I read it, I had made a habit of reading the news: au.news.yahoo.com, maitlandmercury.com.au, news.com.au, ninemsn.com.au, abc.net.au/news and sbs.com.au. With the exception of ABC and SBS which tend to...
getent passwd username on winbind enabled CentOS returns nothing
Problem: Added a CentOS 6.5 server to a Windows SBS 2011 domain. And discovered that I got an empty reply when running: # where jamesmcd is your Windows domain username getent passwd jamesmcd If this is the case you will not be able to use your domain account and...


