I often launch CentOS images on ec2, specifically the RightImage_CentOS_6.3_x64_v5.8.8.5_EBS (ami-3b7bfc52). It’s a great clean CentOS image if you need to run tests or install Kaltura on a clean machine. A common requirement is to have an email sending service, preferably postfix that will be stable and handle long queues of emails (to support for email […]
A few months ago I switched to Mac, tired of the back-pain I had from carrying a heavy (and ugly) Lenovo laptop that had 40% the computing power of my current MacBook Air. So lately I’ve been learning the ways of the mac, and being the cygwin user that I was, I felt at home with […]
This is a handy snippet. If you need to quickly figure out which user is running what process in the system. ps ax -o euser,egroup,comm For example: To find the user running Apache2 in Ubuntu, run the following command: ps ax -o euser,egroup,comm | grep apache2
Lotts docs out there, some are better than others, but most are a bit confusing. Just dropping this here for potential future need… The 2 best I came across are: http://www.akadia.com/services/ssh_test_certificate.html http://www.tc.umn.edu/~brams006/selfsign_ubuntu.html/ I found that steps 1-4 in the first guide are easy to follow and will work well to generate your keys. Then follow […]
That took some time to figure out… I’ve tried at least 6 different articles from the top Google results, none worked and most were outdated. Anyways, no commitment here either, it worked for me, but I’m no Debian expert.. so use at your own risk. First – Add the new multimedia packages – vi /etc/apt/sources.list […]
Re-iterating what took too long (couple of hours) to pinpoint and solve. Getting ImageMagick (Imagick) installed on XAMPP 1.7.3 has it right there and clear, If you want to get Imagick installed on XAMPP 1.7.3, you’d need to: Install the LATEST OFFICIAL version of ImageMagick from http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#windows . (I first tried installing the one from […]