Distilling billing

Distilling billing

I’ve been working on a jbilling install whenever I’ve had a moment over the past few nights. From what I’ve seen, this is a very promising piece of open source work that is remarkably simple Read more

Magento optimisations

Magento optimisations

Things to tweak on your Magento installations gleaned from the Magento forums. Magento ver. 1.0.19870.4 Install APC # pecl install apc edit php.ini to use apc extension extension=apc.so Switch mysql query caching on in my.cnf Read more

A Pound for free

A Pound for free

I’ve setup a more resilient web service for a good client of mine.. http://www.practicalaction.org/ By using 2 servers and ‘pound’ they now have some load balancing but most importantly some resilience.. so if one server Read more

CSR and Key in a single line

CSR and Key in a single line

I’ve been creating Certificate signing requests and private keys in individual command line instructions for years. Just found you can do this! openssl req -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout server.key -out server.csr It’s the little Read more

Make way, Git coming through

Make way, Git coming through

iptables -A OUTPUT -o eth0 -p tcp –dport 9418 -m state –state NEW,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp –sport 9418 -m state –state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT That is all

NVIDIA and suspend issues

NVIDIA and suspend issues

I’ve got the nvidia proprietary video drivers running on my Fedora laptop using the rpmfusion-nonfree yum repo. I also installed the akmod-nvidia package as it recompiles the kernel module for the graphics each time a Read more