Recent Articles By Michael Jones

Intel Xeon

General | 17 May 2012

No wonder the intel xeon is so common in web hosts... Intel Xeon 5148 @ 2.33GHz selling @ $14.86 lol!

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Linux Automated Secondary Monitor Setup

General | 15 Apr 2012

Using the following scripts, you can automate the addition or removal of external monitors and setup audio preferences. This includes the automatic switch of audio control over to HDMI upon pluging in a HDMI device.

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xfce ssh key manager

General | 14 Mar 2012

How to automate the inclusion of ssh keys into the keychain in xfce. This enables you to only have to enter the key password once per session.

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One With The Stratumsphere

Linux | 10 Mar 2012

I've added the ntp protocal to my server (stratum 1 connection to a gps device among others...)

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Online Again

General | 23 Feb 2012

I didn't pay the hosting bill, whilst on holiday... back up :)

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os-prober alphabetic grub listings and tweeks

Linux | 22 Nov 2011

This article shows how to sort and filter grub entries made by os-prober.

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Firefox Auto Profile Switcher

Linux | 14 Oct 2011

It's easy enough to add firefox profiles, but switching between them can be tedious, using a wrapped script, you can automate this task.

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PCI and xinput device checker scripts

Linux | 14 Oct 2011

This scripts enable you to search for pci and xinput devices easily

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Xorg black area in wine

Linux | 12 Oct 2011

Because I always forget it how to remove the black areas...

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Finding spammers in the apache log

Server Security | 17 Jul 2011

This is one of a few scripts to come that can be made into a daemon to crunch down on unwanted crawler, brute forcers / spam traffic...

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