Archive for July, 2008

Automatically starting synergy in GDM in Ubuntu/Fedora

At work, I have a Mac Mini as my main workstation with one monitor. There’s another monitor to the right which is connected to my Linux box. I run a synergy server on the Mac, and I run a synergy client in Linux. However, I was getting pretty frustrated when I’d have [...]

Plesk 8.4.0: Unable to use short names for POP3/IMAP

If you recently upgraded to Plesk 8.4.0 with short names enabled, you may have found that it’s working with SMTP, but it doesn’t work with POP3 or IMAP. There’s a bug in the Plesk version that prevents the courier configuration from being updated.
To correct the issue, first make sure that Plesk has short names [...]

First post using the Wordpress iPhone application

If you haven’t downloaded the new Wordpress application for the iPhone yet, you might want to check it out. So far, it seems to work really well!

MySQLTuner 0.9.8 is now available

MySQLTuner 0.9.8 is now available for download and it is full of new changes! So far, MySQLTuner has been downloaded almost 24,000 times. Thanks for making it so popular.
Easy download!
You can download it simply by running wget mysqltuner.pl. You will automatically be redirected to the script.
Access servers remotely
If you have multiple servers [...]

Calling all creative types: I need a slogan

As some of you may know, MySQLTuner is one of my favorite projects. It’s approaching the 1.0 release and I feel like celebrating. I thought about putting together some T-shirts (because as a nerd, I enjoy the occasional techy T-shirt), but I can’t come up with a good slogan.
I’ve heard of some pretty [...]