More on Linux

Yes, I am still working through that Linux server I inherited without adequate documentation. So my next step is to find out the hardware specification of the server.
CPU info:

cat /proc/cpuinfo
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep ‘model name’

Memory info:

cat /proc/meminfo
cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal
cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemFree

Storage info:

cat /proc/partitions
hdparm -I /dev/sda

Posted by Andrew on November 12th, 2008

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Do you think you can ignore web accessibility?

I am feeling really frustrated today.
I have been interacting with some organisations here in Queensland that feel that feel that web accessibility does not apply to them.
Can I point out that:
Under section 67(1)(k) of the Disability Discrimination Act, the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (Hreoc) issues guidelines for the purpose of avoiding discrimination [...]

Posted by Andrew on November 7th, 2008

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SUMO Paint

I am always tweaking images for one reason or another, sometimes for a client sometimes for me, but this looks handy…
Sumopaint is a fast, easy, simple but powerful image editing software.
Try it out here: http://www.sumo.fi/products/sumopaint

Posted by Andrew on October 31st, 2008

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I am impressed: Pentaho looks great

As a symptom of developing applications I have dealt with a lot of reporting and BI tools. From Cognos through to Crystal and others. But last night I finally spun up Pentaho.
Wow. I was impressed.
I grabbed their Reporting Evaluation tool and had it up and running in no time. I hooked up a MySQL datasource [...]

Posted by Andrew on October 29th, 2008

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How to generate an SSH key with PuTTY on Windows

Assuming you have already grabbed PuTTY, you can generate a key with PuTTY using the instructions below:

Run puttygen.exe
In the “Parameters” section select your encryption standard, I use SSH2 DSA. Press Generate.
Move your mouse randomly in the small screen in order to generate the key pairs.
Enter a key comment, which will serve to identify the key [...]

Posted by Andrew on October 18th, 2008

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