This here is a very handy little script I threw together to generate a geoip.sql table for quickly determining which country a IP is from. I already hear you saying “Just convert the IP to an INT and use BETWEEN, how hard can it be”. And you are right, that works. And it may even [...]
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Virtualbox update
Anyone running Ubuntu as a Virtualbox guest is advised to update to Virtualbox 4.0.6 (+ the extensions) that was released today. Don’t forget to recompile the guest additions after upgrading to 4.0.6. Besides the usual stuff in the changelog, the update fixes a problem with screen resolution in Ubuntu 11.04. Since the Ubuntu update is [...]
Wireless bridge & dd-wrt
I recently bought the WL-330gE_M from Asus. It is a pair of access points pre-configured to bridge 2 LAN networks via wireless, all you have to do is take them out of the box and plug them in, straightforward and simple, no configuration needed. They are intended to enable hooking up devices to the [...]
Windows reinstall and Adobe fun
I never got around to posting it, but a few weeks back the hard drive of my PC with Windows on it died … a little bit. Technically a large chunk of the harddrive is simply unaccessable. after poking and pushing I at least got windows to boot up again, but a large part of [...]
XEN and Kernel update
Server is up and running again. This morning I finished the xen (3.4) and kernel (2.6.32) updates I prepared yesterday evening. The only pitfall I stumbled across, was that the kernel in the debian repository (2.6.26-xen) seemingly wasn’t compatible with the latest xen in the debian repository (system would hang while booting, I guess that’s what I get for using “testing”). Here are a few tips to make the transition a breeze ….
