Efficiency vs. Inefficiency, in a no-holds barred fight.
Always interested in trying out a new tool, so I decided to use this when I wanted to monitor a new rule I put in my firewall, to see what it was doing. The rule was an ipset rule to match against a bunch of addresses and blacklist them. I dumped out a copy of … Read more
I've got a server running Ubuntu 20, and wanted to try out something on it with nodejs. I checked on the server and apparently nodejs was already installed. I guess some previous dependency had put it on there a long time ago. node –version v10.19.0apt-cache policy nodejs nodejs: Installed: 10.19.0~dfsg-3ubuntu1 Candidate: 10.19.0~dfsg-3ubuntu1 OK, so the … Read more
OK, so if you're here, you've probably been searching for a variable in mysqladmin and have watched twenty screens of spaces and pipes scroll past. Me too, so I'm just leaving this little snatch of formatting to remind myself how to tame it down to something readable. So if you're searching for 'buffer' related variables, … Read more
One of the major revelations to Windows users when they migrate to Linux is that its no longer necessary to pay for a PDF printer, or install an open source one: Linux knows how to print PDFs already. However its default implementation is a little irritating. When you print you have to accept the document … Read more
So you probably know that you can change WordPress options directly in the database with an SQL query, and maybe you've come across the /wp-admin/options.php page where you can edit them directly from WordPress. But if the options are held as serialized data, then it gets a bit more tricky. Luckily wp-cli can help. I'll … Read more