VirtualBox 4.1.10 was released yesterday with a few nice things in the changelog. Updating virtualbox itself is easy, just download the package and update it. Since I seem to stumble over the update of the extension pack every time (on my headless system) I thought I’d write a small script this time so I don’t [...]
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New Server (with IPv6)
I got a new server and I finished moving everything to the new hardware this week. If you notice anything behaving strange just drop me a note. I also set up IPv6 on all my VMs so will be playing around with that a bit. It’s a shame that hardly any providers give customers IPv6 addresses, [...]
How to add locking to a shell script (the easy way)
I haven’t posted anything with bash here for a while, so today I’ll throw in a little snippet to use flock to make sure a script is only running once. This is very handy in cron jobs that you want to run often, but there shouldn’t be multiple instances of the script running at the same [...]
How to build an efficient GeoIP SQL table
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 [...]
win7 system restore … aaarrrrgggh
Warning: this is mainly me just ranting about Microsoft stupidity and a warning for anyone using junctions.
About a month or two ago I built myself a new PC (old one was dying) and installed Win7 on it. Since I was previously still on WinXP there were a few things to get used to, but all [...]
