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Wordpress

Upgrade to WordPress 2.8

And the verdict…. Nothing special.

The upgrade process was extremely simple. Just went through and updated all my plug-ins and theme to be 2.8 compatible and followed the three step upgrade process, and voila.

The admin interface has received a small polishing, with a new theme browser and theme installation method. I like the new editor for use with theme php & css files. The syntax highlighting and automatic documentation feature seems to be the best improvements for me.

So to sum up the installation went very smoothly, but unless you are into customising your themes or changing theme’s often then I don’t see any compelling reason to race out and upgrade.

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Cacti Linux Sys Admin

Monitoring Linux Disk Statistics with Cacti

I firstly want to acknowledge the work of Mark Round and Linux iostat monitoring with Cacti. The following work was inspired and based on the ideas found in Mark’s post.

My main objective when I started looking into disk monitoring was to get some similar stats into Cacti for Linux that can be found with the Windows PerfMon utility. I found Mark’s post and didn’t quite like the way it used cron to collect its statistics, and wanted something that I could easily add to snmpd.conf without needing to change much more. I was also keen on obtaining the mount point data for each partition as looking at “cciss/c0d0p3” doesn’t mean as much to management (and sometimes to me) and hopefully “/home” does.

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VMWare

VMWare ESXi 4.0 and Boot from SAN

VMWare have just released the free VMWare ESXi 4.0.

I have just tested and it now supports Boot from SAN. WOOT!! I have been looking into using USB drives as a way to boot my VMWare farm servers, but am a little nervous about the lack redundancy. So now I can carve out 2gb of redundant storage from my SAN for each server and save on having local disks that are very much under utilised.

It also looks like you can install the Free version direct to USB Drive rather than having to hack together something from the ISO and using DD or winimage to flash the USB.

This is an excellent move from VMWare and I look forward to reporting back on any other new features i find.

And as an a-side the Cacti Graphs found on this site still work under the new version. Now to find out if there is SNMP support in this release or not (I dont suppose I will be given everything I want in one go!)

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LJSearchRankTool PHP SEO Web Application

LJ Google Search Rank Tool – Ver 0.1r19 (Compliance Release)

Compliance Release.

Changelog:

  • Added GPLv3 Details to Source Files and included GPLv3 LICENSE file in download.

Check out the project page for more details.

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Sys Admin Windows

Shortcut to hosts file on Windows

This one was shown to me a while back but I needed to use it today and remembered how much easier it is.

To quickly access the hosts file go Start -> Run -> Type drivers -> Ok.

This will bring up the folder before the hosts file, just double click into the etc directory from there.

The other method is to create a new shortcut on your Start Menu or Desktop with the following as the target

%windir%system32notepad.exe "c:WINDOWSsystem32driversetchosts"

Two easy methods to access your hosts file.