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Ubuntu Squid 3 SSL Support PPA

Jordan — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:40:58 +0000

If you’re looking for squid3 with SSL support in Ubuntu, you’re in luck! There’s a PPA that is providing squid3 with SSL support compiled in. Simple run the following command to add the mojocode PPA.

add-apt-repository ppa:mojocode/ppa

More information on the mojocode PPA.

launchpad.net/~mojocode/+archive/ppa

Fix Ubuntu Apt error “public key is not available” GPG Keys

Jordan — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:07:53 +0000

If you’ve ever used the a package or repository from the Ubuntu Personal Pakacge Archive, you may have receive an error when each time you use apt-get. The error looks something like this.

W: GPG error: ppa.launchpad.net lucid Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY D8D75E403EBCE749

It’s a simple one line fix, the one line fetches the GPG key for the repository from keyserver.ubuntu.com:

apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys D8D75E403EBCE749

Once you’ve run this command, apt-get will no longer report errors with finding the correct GPG public key.

Ubuntu apt-key not working? Behind a Firewall? Open port port 11371 or use http://:80

Jordan — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:25:51 +0000

I was trying to get some Ubuntu PGP Key’s for some ppa.launchpad.net sources, and apt-key kept erroring out. All I had to do was open up 11371 on my firewall or just use keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 which would force the HTTP protocal instead of HKP.

It’s that simple actually.

superuser.com/questions/64922/how-to-work-around-blocked-outbound-hkp-port-for-apt-keys

Car Paint Damage (Chips, and Pits)

Jordan — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:52:36 +0000

I’m working on my car to try and get some of the paint chips and pits out of the paint. Here are some pictures of the problem area’s.

I’ve been looking online at a couple of solutions.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVkJT_hL6Zs&feature=related

OtterBox Defender Series iPhone 4S Warranty Pictures

Jordan — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:56:34 +0000

The OtterBox Warranty Department asked that I provide them with pictures of the problematic OtterBox I purchased. Here they’re, as you can see the bottom iTunes Port cover has a small rubber line that is suppose to fit into the hard shell case, mine was defective upon receiving it. It worked fine for a while then just stopped working completely.

Why DomainPeople’s New Domain Manager Sucks

Jordan — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:41:03 +0000

DomainPeople upgraded their Domain Name Manager, which now doesn’t allow the creation of Name Servers based on your domain name. So you’re required to submit a ticket to create/update your Name Servers based on your Domain Name. I’m so glad I moved to Hexonet, because I have direct access to this.

UPDATE: If you read the comments below, Andrew has pointed out that DomainPeople has added an option for “Register Nameservers” which should then allow you to register nameservers based on your domain.

Configuring MySQL for Low Memory VPS

Jordan — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:06:52 +0000

I’ve found the following configuration helps when you’re trying to squeeze out as much memory from a VPS as possible.

[mysqld]
port = 3306
socket = /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
skip-locking
key_buffer = 16K
max_allowed_packet = 1M
table_cache = 4
sort_buffer_size = 64K
read_buffer_size = 256K
read_rnd_buffer_size = 256K
net_buffer_length = 2K
thread_stack = 64K

# For low memory, Berkeley DB should not be used so keep skip-bdb uncommented unless required
skip-bdb

# For low memory, InnoDB should not be used so keep skip-innodb uncommented unless required
skip-innodb

# Uncomment the following if you are using InnoDB tables
#innodb_data_home_dir = /var/lib/mysql/
#innodb_data_file_path = ibdata1:10M:autoextend
#innodb_log_group_home_dir = /var/lib/mysql/
#innodb_log_arch_dir = /var/lib/mysql/
# You can set .._buffer_pool_size up to 50 - 80 %
# of RAM but beware of setting memory usage too high
#innodb_buffer_pool_size = 16M
#innodb_additional_mem_pool_size = 2M
# Set .._log_file_size to 25 % of buffer pool size
#innodb_log_file_size = 5M
#innodb_log_buffer_size = 8M
#innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 1
#innodb_lock_wait_timeout = 50

[mysqldump]
quick
max_allowed_packet = 16M

[mysql]
no-auto-rehash
# Remove the next comment character if you are not familiar with SQL
#safe-updates

[isamchk]
key_buffer = 8M
sort_buffer_size = 8M

[myisamchk]
key_buffer = 8M
sort_buffer_size = 8M

[mysqlhotcopy]
interactive-timeout

Apple TV XBMC sources.xml Location

Jordan — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:11:36 +0000

/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences/XBMC/userdata/sources.xml

Pasword Protected Sub Directories Missing on Index Listing with Apache2

Jordan — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 09:14:38 +0000

If you’ve setup a folder that allows listing of the directory index, you will be presented with that directories contents. Folders and files will be show and you can navigate through each folder. However, if you’ve password protected a sub directory, it will not show up in the listing. This is because its considered to be protected and the user should not be able to access it.

To override this option you must place the following into your root .htaccess file, not the one protecting the folder.

IndexOptions +ShowForbidden

httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_autoindex.html

Simple Apache Expires Setup via .htaccess

Jordan — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:39:29 +0000

If you’ve used Google Page Speed then you’ve probably seen “Leverage browser caching” as one of the items on the Medium Priority list. And it’s a real simple fix if you’re running Apache. Just create or edit your .htaccess file for the site you want to enable it on and input the following.

<IfModule mod_expires.c>
ExpiresActive on
ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 years"
ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 years"
ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 years"
ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 years"
ExpiresByType text/js "access plus 1 years"
ExpiresByType text/javascript "access plus 1 years"
ExpiresByType application/javascript "access plus 1 years"
ExpiresByType application/x-javascript "access plus 1 years"
#ExpiresDefault "access plus 1 days"
IfModule>

And Viola, you’re now telling Web Browsers not to grab Images/CSS or Javascript unless otherwise required.