Debian 7.0 (Wheezy) came out this weekend, and I want to mess with it. Here’s how I wrote the installation media to a USB thumb drive for it using a Windows box. Because sometimes that’s all you have available to work with.
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How to build bootable Debian installation USB media from Windows
Posted by Dave Farquhar on May 5, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/05/how-to-build-bootable-debian-installation-usb-media-from-windows/
Here’s a nice Linux tool: checkrestart
Tom Gatermann told me about a nice tool for Debian (and presumably Ubuntu) called checkrestart. Sometimes, even though you did an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade to bring your system up to date, you can still be running the out-of-date version of something. That’s the problem checkrestart helps you solve.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 12, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/03/heres-a-nice-linux-tool-checkrestart/
Another easy Apache tweak
I ran my site through Google Page Speed on Tuesday, and scored a surprising 88 out of 100–higher than I expected. Getting above 90 is going to take some optimizations on files that WordPress updates may change, so I’m hesitant to do that, but one thing it told me to do was to cache more [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 20, 2013
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2013/02/another-easy-apache-tweak/
How to start over with MySQL in Debian
I got my new 64-bit web server up and running today. Now the main task that remains is to get my data moved over to it. I talked myself into going with an Apache setup, since one program I want to run (Webtrees) is designed for Apache and its search engine optimization seems to work [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on March 4, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/03/how-to-start-over-with-mysql-in-debian/
Egg on my face
I dragged my computer back over to Micro Center this afternoon. It took three of us, but we got the computer working. It’s a long story. It would have been a much shorter story if I’d remembered my rule #1. I won’t bore you with the details, except to say the second technician, upon hearing [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 12, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/02/egg-on-my-face/
Open-source licenses, the CISSP, and the real world
You may have a question about open-source licenses on your CISSP exam. I don’t remember the specifics and wouldn’t be able to repeat them anyway, but I had a question on my exam where knowing the differences was helpful in finding the right answer. And I had to deal with an issue this past week [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on February 4, 2012
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2012/02/open-source-licenses-the-cissp-and-the-real-world/
Nginx, a leaner, meaner web server
Arstechnica posted a nice writeup on Nginx, a cut-down webserver that does less than Apache does, but does the few things it does much faster. That’s nothing particularly new, as smaller and faster webservers have existed for as long as I can remember. What makes Nginx different is that it can work with PHP. And [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on November 15, 2011
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2011/11/nginx-a-leaner-meaner-web-server/
Attack of the $99 Droid-Pads
A 7-inch, underpowered Android tablet that may or may not be available at your corner Walgreen Drug Store is made some big waves today. It’s underpowered, but it’s supposedly on sale for 99 bucks. Regular retail price is $129. Yes, for 99 bucks, it’s a toy. But it could be a fun toy.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 29, 2010
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/10/attack-of-the-99-droid-pads/
How I changed servers midstream
When upgrading this site, I replaced the underlying hardware as well. The old server was just a dead end in too many regards to be worth upgrading in place, and besides, being able to run new and old side by side for a time is helpful. This type of maneuver is routine work for a [...]
Posted by Dave Farquhar on October 6, 2010
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2010/10/how-i-changed-servers-midstream/
Cheap upgrades
Yesterday, during my weekly garage sale adventures, I bought some computer equipment. Among the haul: a Biostar Socket A motherboard with an AMD Sempron 2200+ CPU and 512MB of RAM. It’s not state of the art, but can hold its own against some of the stuff still on the market, and it’s a big upgrade over the 450 MHz Pentium II that’s been powering this web site since July 2002.
Posted by Dave Farquhar on September 28, 2008
http://dfarq.homeip.net/2008/09/cheap-upgrades/