With the release of the new 860 XO build, you might have a few XOs to update. Of course, flashing an XO with a USB drive is the fastest way to get a clean install, but then you might want to yum update or install other stuff. In low bandwidth situations or where USB drives… Read more XO yum cache on the local XS
Month: January 2011
Fedora 11 RPM Fusion Repository
Since the regular way of setting up RPM Fusion for Fedora 11 doesn’t work any more, and most XOs are still using F11, download and install these rpms instead. Just rpm -ivh <name of rpm> http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/releases/11/Everything/i386/os/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-11-1.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/11/Everything/i386/os/rpmfusion-free-release-11-1.noarch.rpm
Automatically SCP Screenshots from the XO up to the XS
After fooling around with sshfs and incron and whatnot with the Journal in an attempt to get screenshots on my XS (not to mention dealing with the peanut gallery on my chat server), I was at the end of my patience. If you’ve ever delved into the Journal file structure, you know it’s tricky business.… Read more Automatically SCP Screenshots from the XO up to the XS
Who’s Using My Proxy?
Now that I’ve figured out TinyHTTPProxy, have login notifications posting to Statusnet, and can use incron to monitor files, let’s pull that all together to let me (and my users) know when the TinyHTTPProxy is in use and who’s using it. Remember only one user can use it at a time, so instead of trying… Read more Who’s Using My Proxy?
Posting to Statusnet when a file is modified
I’ve got a guestbook of sorts on my XS, but don’t really pay any attention to it. What if someone dropped me a note and I didn’t know about it? Or even worse, what if someone posted something obnoxious that needed to be deleted immediately? Let me use incron to monitor the guestbook and then… Read more Posting to Statusnet when a file is modified
Login Notifications via Statusnet
This will work for the Twitter API as well, but I have a Statusnet installation, so I’m going to use that. If you put this in the global /etc/bashrc you’ll get notifications when anyone logs in. You could also just put it in a particular user’s ~.bashrc if you only want notifications for that user.… Read more Login Notifications via Statusnet
How to use TinyHTTPProxy.py
Note: I’m using this on XS 0.6, but this should work for any Linux server. Why would you need to do this? Well, say you’re at a Starbucks or other open wifi and would like to securely browse the internet, particularly Facebook. If you’ve heard of Firesheep, that’s a Firefox plugin that sniffs your Facebook… Read more How to use TinyHTTPProxy.py