Run Command Before Starting SSH Connection
This a quick hack I found while I was looking to run a knock script before connecting to servers which I have the SSH service protected with a knock sequence. In my setup I...
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[PHP] Validate Email Address Format
A quick snippet I use to validate email address format. <?php if (empty($argv[1])) { echo ‘usage: ‘ . $argv[0] . ‘ [email protected]’ . PHP_EOL; exit (1); } array_shift($argv); foreach ($argv as $key => $email)...
Building CinelerraCV for Fedora 22 under Docker
The Dockerfile #FROM 195a4b79eb1c #Version 0.4 FROM Fedora-Docker-Base-22-20150521.x86_64 MAINTAINER [email protected] RUN dnf update -y && dnf install -y mock rpmdevtools tmux htop && dnf clean all RUN [“dnf”, “install”, “-y”, “http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-22.noarch.rpm”, “http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-22.noarch.rpm”] RUN [“/usr/sbin/useradd”,...
[NetworkManager] Using dispatcher.d to run scripts based on network connectivity
This post is based on my personal need to mount/umount some network shares automatically when I’m switching between networks (e.g Homer/Office). Later on I was looking to make it more modular and came out...
Speed up a MySQL restore from a dump file
This is a small snippet I found to speed up importing MySQL dumps, it’s is almost as fast as coping the DB files directly. Pre INSERT Put the commands at the top of the...
Dynamic DNS with CloudFlare
This is a simple hack I found for my self to have a “Dynamic DNS” for my home IP. I’m using CloudFlare as my name server to manage the zone file for my domain,...
Setup Xdebug for remote debug over SSH
If you have PHP application you need to debug, and there is a firewall between you and the hosting server, One can use SSH to tunnel the traffic from the remote site to the...
Toggle Audio Output Between Several Devices
With PulseAudio one can choose the output (in PA syntax, it’s called “sink-input”) device for each audio stream, for example, I can listen to my music on my headphone (USB sound card in my...
Make a WordPress site work on both HTTP & HTTPS
Since Google started including sites which server under HTTPS in their ranking, and CloudFlare came out with their Universal SSL service, I was thinking to add a native SSL support to my WP blog....
Auto increment the serial number of a zone file after each edit with vim
Emacs functionality with Vim Long story short, I was missing a functionality which i have with Emacs when editing BIND zone files. By adding the following lines to the zone file header, Emacs will...
