All most %100 of my search traffic is from google. Last weeks there were quite some talk about Microsoft’s new search engine Bing. I guess it is smart to make use of it. search

If you want to access the services on your KVM machines from Internet, it is most likely that you would need a bridge network interface. Let’s see how you can define a bridge network on Ubuntu. feed

I have a svn repository. How can I automatically add the Revision number, user id of the committing person etc. to the source file? To do this you need need to use auto-props. Some of you who worked with cvs would expect to configure this at the repository level but unfortunately Subversion auto-props are configured [...]

What kind of protection do you have at your home or small office network? Are you using iptables? windows firewall or firewall of your adsl modem? Now a days having just a firewall is not good enough for your protection. Actually you can also see this from the way open source firewall projects are evolving. [...]

For my current Ruby on Rails project I am using email based authentication plug-in clearance. After the registration users get an email with an activation link, but at development environment I don’t have fully functional mail server. I don’t need it either. I just want to catch the generated emails and I don’t want to [...]

Nginx is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server and reverse proxy, as well as an IMAP/POP3 proxy server. Nginx is known for its high performance, stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption.

I am working on a KVM based virtualized environment.  All my virtual machines are sitting behind a virtual firewall appliance. Here comes the challenge. I need to identify and open up required ports for each individual appliance. What are the ports a mailserver would need? Here is the list of ports you need to open [...]

If you are an active wiki user, probably you also wished to organize your personal notes in wiki form. Up to now I was using a local wiki server for organizing my notes and recently I started to use Tomboy Notes, but couple of weeks ago a friend of mine mentioned a desktop wiki application [...]

If you installed the openx without installing the php gd extensions your statistics widgets will show an error message saying that gd extensions are not installed. In case you are using Ubuntu you may install this extension with following command. sudo apt-get install php5-gd You would expect that After the installation if you restart the [...]

Rails is an excellent framework but till version v2.2 there wasn’t any build in internationalization support. You had to use different plug-ins in order to support internationalization. It was quite a disappointment to me. As of v2.2 Internationalisation on is natively supported by framework. Today I wanted to give it a try and see what [...]