Category Archives: Linux Administration

suhosin causing grief on Joomsuite component

Hopefully this helps me or someone else with the same issue in the future suhosin[25917]: ALERT – configured POST variable limit exceeded – dropped variable ‘task_com_morfeoshow[]’ (attacker ‘xxx.xxx.xx.xxx’, file ‘/home/user/public_html/administrator/index.php’) in your php.ini (or suhosin.ini depending on your setup) [suhosin]suhosin.post.max_vars = 2000suhosin.request.max_vars = 1000 Technorati Tags: suhosin, apache, joomla

DimDim – Open source Web conferencing and Meetings

For my future reference. DimDim is an open source web conferencing and meeting software with the following features: No Install to Host/Join meetings Easy Share Screens&Webpages Audio & Video Conferencing Present PowerPoint and PDFs Private & Public Chat Whiteboard & Annotations Record and Playback Meetings Open Source and open APIs SynchroLive Co-Browsing Free Recording & …

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suhosin causing grief on Joomsuite component

Hopefully this helps me or someone else with the same issue in the future suhosin[25917]: ALERT – configured POST variable limit exceeded – dropped variable ‘task_com_morfeoshow[]’ (attacker ‘xxx.xxx.xx.xxx’, file ‘/home/user/public_html/administrator/index.php’) in your php.ini (or suhosin.ini depending on your setup) [suhosin]suhosin.post.max_vars = 2000suhosin.request.max_vars = 1000 Technorati Tags: suhosin, apache, joomla

Bulk Export Images to JPG from PDF – bash one liner

Sometimes I forget what power there is in free software. I put this quickie together the other day. Just be aware that it won’t handle any spaces in the PDF filename. for i in *.pdf;do pdfimages $i ${i%.*};done && for i in *.ppm;do ppmtojpeg $i >> ${i%.*}.jpg;done; rm -f *.ppm images are exported as -00n.jpg …

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Bash command to determine multiple logins sorted by user with the most logins

Here ’tis w | awk ‘{a[$1]++}END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’ | sort -rn | head stumbled on this issue with a HP-UX server we run where the maxusers kernel paramater is set to 600 (512 by default). To change this setting, requires a reboot of the server (something not easily achievable at midday …

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Easy DVD Authoring in Linux thanks to Wine and DVD Flick

I haven’t spent much time with Video editing / DVD authoring on either Linux or Windows. Mostly because I don’t watch much video except for a wierd philia for watching Cop Chases on Youtube or at the other end of the spectrum, watching the extremely interesting TedTalks using Miro or Google Tech Talks. Anyway, my …

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How to schedule Linux to mute speaker volume overnight

Here’s a simple method of automatically muting your volume overnight and resetting it in the morning. This is especially good for those who use softphones, skype or an IM client that have sound alerts output to speakers. We are going to use three command line tools for this: aumix, which and cron. We are also …

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RipplePay / Ripple Project – Peer to Peer Finance in Django and homelessness

Yesterday, I was searching around for a Critique of Neale Donald Walsch after watching the DVD “Conversations with God” – I have already read all three books of his Conversations with God series and whilst it didn’t present to me any new and revealing ideas about life, god and living in general, it did act …

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When I grow up I want to be a lisp programmer

I have read quite a bit about Lisp before and most of it, frankly went over my head as a non-programmer except bar a few articles of Paul Graham’s on Lisp. Paul is one of the brainchild(ren??) behind ViaWeb which is now Yahoo Shopping and the author of a number of books: ANSI Common Lisp, …

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