This almost feels too simple to even mention it. But I guess it doesn’t hurt putting it our there. Someone might hit it in a desperate Google hunt. So this is the deal. You have a device on your network that controls another device by means of sending out simple TCP payloads. Now you want [...]
When I wanted to build the latest PHP for a server I found several guides online. Sadly none of them worked right away. So after finally getting it all to work like I wanted to, I decided to quickly write up this guide. I start with a clean Ubuntu 8.04 install. So, first things first: [...]
This is a little introduction to the latest version of my steam and hlds frontend bash script. I will demonstrate it’s use by setting up a new Team Fortress 2 game server with it. This tutorial assumes an Ubuntu 8.04.2 x86 server system. I set up a VM for the sake of this tutorial. It [...]
For a while now I have been running some dedicated servers for Source games. Primarily Team Fortress 2. I lately switched those off in favor of Left 4 Dead servers. I was always looking for a way to improve my setup. At some point during my initial googleing I came across this article. I based [...]
My first implementation of this idea may have been sufficient for general use. For inclusion in WordPress however it was problematic at best. Now that I have revised (and tested) it, I thought I’d share this updated WordPress plugin. In this version I put the JavaScript code inline. Although I’m not a big fan of [...]
I was interested in what Flash Player version people are using when visiting my site. So i looked around the web for a solution including AWStats. At first i was out of luck until i noticed that AWStats has a discussion forum on sourceforge as well. Someone there came up with a solution which was [...]
So in the process of migrating our company network architecture over the paths months, I had the chance to set up Cacti for server monitoring. I followed some documentation and articles on the net but ended up making some stupid mistakes. So, let’s start with this. The host system Cacti will be running on, is [...]
