Welcome to the home page of Manni Wood, Sole Proprietor.
Things C.J. Date recommends.
Quick tip: How to find the number of connections to your PostgreSQL database:
select datname, procpid, usename, client_addr, client_port from pg_catalog.pg_stat_activity;
Ubuntu Firewall setup explains how to set up a firewall on Ubuntu 8.04 server edition.
Firewall setup explains how to set up a firewall on a computer using Fedora 10.
How to make your crappy PC keyboard act like a Unix keyboard, including an updated keydump for Fedora 10 (as well as the older goodness for F9 and lower).
Also, here's a brief snippet on how to get your second monitor to display next to your primary monitor on F10 using xrandr and the built-in nv driver:
First, get the names of both of your monitors by running xrandr with no arguments, like so:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3200 x 1200, maximum 3520 x 1600 VGA1 disconnected DVI0 connected 1600x1200+0+0 408mm x 306mm 1600x1200 60.0*+ ((stuff omitted)) VGA2 disconnected DVI1 connected 1600x1200+1600+0 400mm x 300mm 1600x1200 60.0*+ ((stuff omitted))
The names of my two monitors are DVI0 and DVI1. Now all I have to do is tell xrandr to put DVI1 to the right of DVI0 and I will have dual-head goodness without having to use the proprietary NVidia driver:
xrandr --output DVI1 --right-of DVI0
updated notes on getting key-based ssh authentication working, especially with a fix on home directory permissions for Fedora!
updated version of PostgreSQL syntax highlighting file for vim.
Updated version of my favourite way of backing up an entire system by duplicating its hard drive.
A brief guide on starting a new project using Git, including notes on bare remote repositories, which are not super-obvious from the Git documentation.