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August 31, 2009

Generate a htpasswd password without installing Apache

Filed under: Snippets — jorge @ 16:23

A oneliner with Perl does the trick:

$ perl -le 'print crypt("password", "salt")'

Your htpasswd-file should then look like so:

UserName:EncryptedPassword:YourComment

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August 28, 2009

Password protecting folders with nginx

Filed under: Linux — jorge @ 15:38

Ever wondered how you can password protect a folder and the underlying content with nginx the same way Apache does? Pretty simple.

First create a htpass-file like so:

# htpasswd -b htpass NewUser NewPassword

Edit your site’s configuration file by adding the following lines of code inside the server-block:

location ^~ /secret {
    auth_basic "Restricted";
    auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/htpass;
}

And your folder should be password protected. :)

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Want to try out Chromium in Fedora 11?

Filed under: Linux — jorge @ 10:27

Easy peasy.

First we need to create a file called chromium.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ and put the following content in it:

[chromium]
name=Chromium Test Packages
baseurl=http://spot.fedorapeople.org/chromium/F$releasever/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Save and close the file. When done, execute the following command:

# yum install chromium

And you’re done. :)

Getting Flash to work with Chromium on a 64-bit system

It’s actually not as hard as you think:

# wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/flashplayer10/libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz
# cd /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/plugins/
# tar -zxvf /root/libflashplayer-10.0.32.18.linux-x86_64.so.tar.gz

Now start up Chromium with:

$ chromium-browser --enable-plugins

Works great!

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August 18, 2009

Vacation is over, back to work!

Filed under: Day to day — jorge @ 13:39

So the vacation is finally over. Two weeks of pretty much doing nothing. We had some fun though, we got a new digital videocamera, so we were able to record Michael when we went to the zoo. All in all, I’ve never relaxed so much before, ever. But boy did I notice how tough it was to get up at my regular 5.30am in the morning, sheesh. I’ll get used to it, but it’ll take me a while.

Now on to some other things. I’ve probably mentioned before that I was using FreeNAS along with a server that I inherited from my sister-in-law and her husband. Things were going fine, and FreeNAS was working like a dream. Until the machine died. Again. I had enough, and decided to never touch the machine again. Didn’t matter how much I had to suck up to Marte, I was buying a new NAS-machine. And I did.

I proudly present the Synology DS209j.

It has been working like a charm. I’ve tried both NFS, CIFS and UPnP so far (streaming to the Xbox 360 works GREAT!). The only thing is that the re-indexing takes AGES. When you add some new content to the systemfolders (Video, Music, Photo), the new media has to be re-indexed so that the latest addition is in the database. Thus you have a Re-index button. But the button Re-indexes EVERYTHING , so if you have say 80GB worth of data, it might quickly take 15-20-30 minutes to add everything to the database. Why they just don’t add a “Add latest additions to the database”-button is beyond me. I sent in a support-request for it though, so now to see if they’ll include it sometime in the future. No wonder that it takes a while either, the NAS-machine has 64MB memory integrated into the motherboard, and no option to add some more either. With the DS209+ though you can actually add some more memory, but then you’d void the warranty, and you’d have to pay a bit more for the box itself. I paid about 190€ for the DS209j, including shipment, while the DS209+ costs a bit more at around 240€ or so. Everything is set up in a RAID1 array with two 1TB disks in it.

Also, I’ve been kind of hooked on Anime of late. I’ve been watching Avatar – The Last Airbender, Afro Samurai (series and movie), Elfen Lied, and recently gotten hold of Cowboy Bebop and Death Note, which I’ve heard good things about. I am loving them.

Does anyone out there have any more anime to recommend? I eagerly await your answer. :)

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August 13, 2009

How to join multiple .avi or .mpg files – part two

Filed under: Snippets — jorge @ 09:41

25th of May 2008 I wrote a post about how you could join multiple files that looked something like movie.avi.001, movie.avi.002 and so on. I found a new tool that does the job a bit easier, lxsplit. The syntax of lxsplit is like so:

[jorge@ashitaka ~]$ lxsplit 
LXSplit v0.2.4 by Richard Stellingwerff, O. Sezer.
Home page: http://lxsplit.sourceforge.net/
 
Usage: lxsplit [OPTION] [FILE] [SPLITSIZE]
 
Available options:
 -j : join the files beginning with the given name
 -s : split the given file.  requires a valid size
Splitsize examples: 15M, 100m, 5000k, 30000000b
 
Examples:
	lxsplit -s hugefile.bin 15M
	lxsplit -j hugefile.bin.001

So to join all our files, we execute:

$ lxsplit -j movie.avi.001

And it will join all files named movie.avi.00{1,2,3} and so on. :)

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