How Ryan Tomayko explained REST to his wife
Just encountered this excellent post about Ryan Tomayko explaining REST to his wife. Give it a read. It’s here: http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife
Year: 2012
django on apache2 with mod_wsgi
Reference: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/wsgi/modwsgi/ Sitename: vkrm Location: /work/vkrm 1. Install mod_wsgi (and Apache if not already). I had both already installed (I checked for mod_wsgi by running “yum install mod_wsgi”). If not, follow instructions on: http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/InstallationInstructions 2. Enable “mod_wsgi” and httpd.conf su -c vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf Add line: LoadModule wsgi_module modules/mod_wsgi.so 3. Create …
Configuring headless transmission (torrent) client on Fedora 17
su yum install transmission yum install transmission-daemon make sure transmission-daemon service is not running service stop transmission-daemon edit configuration file to enable rpc and disable whitelist (or allow addresses in whitelist) vi /var/lib/transmission/.config/transmission/settings.json start transmission-daemon service start transmission-daemon Note: if you modify settings while transmission-daemon is running, changes won’t be …
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Configuring NVidia Audio/Video on Fedora 17
A solution that worked for me: http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2012/fedora-17-nvidia-guide/ For audio, find the device ID and add a PulseAudio sink using instructions from here: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/gpu-hdmi-audio-document/gpu-hdmi-audio.html#_pulseaudio_default_device
Dynamic MOTD in Ubuntu 12.04
Follow this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UpdateMotd
Installing Webmin on Ubuntu 12.04
Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file on your system and add the lines : deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib deb http://webmin.mirror.somersettechsolutions.co.uk/repository sarge contrib You should also fetch and install GPG key with which the repository is signed, with the commands : cd /root wget http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc apt-key add jcameron-key.asc You will now …
WOL on Fedora 17
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
Installing VNC Server on Fedora 17
This was a bit of a research but here is how I did it: http://stevejenkins.com/blog/2010/03/set-up-vnc-from-windows-to-fedora-12-over-the-internet/ http://owldevx.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/vnc-server-fedora-16/ http://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Fedora_16&p=x&f=2
Building a Linux HTPC
It’s been a while since I have blogged not beacuse of laziness but because I am working towards having my own website where I could continue this blog and start many more interesting things. For this purpose, I have been learning Ruby on Rails as I think I want to …
Adding a user to the sudo file
Configuring SUDO1. Open a terminal.2. In the terminal enter the following: su –login -c ‘visudo’ 3. Press enter, at the password prompt enter the password for root, then press enter.4. A display similar to the following will be displayed: # sudoers file.## This file MUST be edited with the ‘visudo’ …