All posts tagged linux

Pyrit Benchmark for Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi Pyrit Benchmark

I’ve been playing with my Raspberry Pi quite a bit lately, it’s a wonderful bit of kit.  If you don’t have one already go and buy one!  The cost/power balance is really amazing.  This post is in no way a criticism of a Raspberry Pi, it is a wonderful computer made with education in mind and I am certainly learning!
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Backing Up All MySQL Databases Individually using Cron

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If we’ve got a whole pile of databases on a server, it’s possible that not all of them will change regularly.  If we’re backing up with something like rsync it makes sense not to do a whole database dump which would mean big perpetually backups so lets backup our databases individually.

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A Tinyproxy Transparent Installation on Ubuntu 12.04 with HTTPS Support

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If you want an easier way to get Tinyproxy working and don’t want to use transparent support try this post to install Tinyproxy on Ubuntu.

The repositories for Ubuntu don’t have Transparent Support enabled for Tinyproxy.  Some firewalls and corporate installations need to use transparent proxies if they are internally redirecting.  This post will guide you through building Tinyproxy from source on Ubuntu 12.04 as a complete installation and working system.

I couldn’t find any decent guides out there on how to make this work, so I thought I’d put one together.  Hopefully my research will come in useful for someone else…  Warning this is a little more in-depth than my usual tutorials, but I promise it will be worth it in the end.

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How to Enable Squid Anonymous Stealth Mode

Stealthy Squid

There are some times when you don’t want your proxy server announcing that it’s a proxy server to the world.  Getting Squid to anonymise the requests coming from behind it isn’t done out of the box.

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How to Install WordPress with SSH and Nginx

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It feels like I’m installing a WordPress site just about every week, and I’ve put the following together to help me remember how to do it!  If it comes in useful to anyone else then I’m happy too.  We’ll assume you’re using Ubuntu 11.10 for this How To and running a LEMP server, although tailoring for Apache should be easy enough too using this method.

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