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Disable IPv6 The Right (Debian) Way 2 Oct 2010 | 10:41 am
IPv4 has been in place for around 30 years now and is still a testament to human ingenuity. Unfortunately, IPv4 is limited to approximately 4.3 billion addresses, 0.0.0.0 - 255.255.255.255. As more ci...
iPhone4 vs HTC Evo – 3G and Has the WiFis 29 Sep 2010 | 11:13 pm
Know anyone with an iPhone? Are they anything like the chic in this video? Not only is the video hilarious, it also gave me an excuse to setup mod_flv_streaming. Despite the cartoon appearance the dis...
Guest Submission: Howto Disable SSDP 27 Sep 2010 | 03:36 pm
SSDP - Simple Service Discovery Protocol - can actually turn out to be a disservice, if this protocol acts in the way pictured to the left. As you can see from the Wireshark capture, SSDP is causing s...
Comment Posting Issue and Other Misc. 31 Aug 2010 | 02:00 am
Unfortunately, if you've posted a comment to a Nullamatix.com post between July 24th and August 29th, they weren't submitted to the queue for approval. This was due to a php.ini setting modification i...
Howto: XCache in a Lighttpd Chroot on Debian 12 Apr 2010 | 06:13 am
Whether you're pressed for resources on a virtual/dedicated server, or simply looking for ways to improve web application performance, XCache is guaranteed to produce the desired result. Within minute...
DWM on Wikipedia Marked For Deletion 26 Feb 2010 | 02:36 am
Anselm, the "inventor of dwm" shared this information with the suckless mailing list yesterday. Apparently, Wikipedia has flagged the dwm (dynamic window manager from suckless.org) article for deletio...
Discontinued Security Support for Debian 4.0 21 Jan 2010 | 11:33 pm
One year after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias 'lenny' and nearly three years after the release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 alias 'etch' the security support for the old distribution (4.0 alias ...
New Tool: IP Range to CIDR 18 Jan 2010 | 10:16 am
At least twice a week I find myself visiting ip2cidr.com, the IP to CIDR converter. Since the owner/author of the site hasn't release the source code, and I love a challenge, I developed my own versio...
Solution: chown: invalid user: www-data:www-data 11 Jan 2010 | 09:35 am
Ran into this issue after getting rid of the www-data user and group. The solution is simple and doesn't involve adding the account/group, assuming the objective is to run Lighttpd as a different user...
Hide WordPress Update Nag Without a Plugin 7 Jan 2010 | 01:28 pm
For those who don't know, WordPress 2.9.1 was released a couple days ago. As a result, the "WordPress 2.9.1 is available! Please update now." nag is plastered at the top of the admin interface. Since ...
