https://www.garron.me/en Guillermo Garron's personal site and blog in English en https://www.garron.me/en/linux/self-host-email-server-mailcow.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/self-host-email-server-mailcow.html Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 I have been trying to host all my own services, from email to web servers, also Asterisk and lots of other examples, as written on my personal blog I also see some good points about hosting your own email server. If you want to host your own email server, Mailcow is one of the best options available… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/diff-linux-command-line.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/diff-linux-command-line.html Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 diff compares two files line by line and shows you what is different between them. It is one of the most useful commands on Linux — you will reach for it every time you need to check what changed in a config file, review a patch, or verify that two directories are in sync. Syntax diff [options] file… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/df-linux-command-line-disk-free.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/df-linux-command-line-disk-free.html Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org on May 18, 2007. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. When you need to know how much space is used on your disks and how much is free, df (Disk Free) is… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/du-linux-command-line-disk-usage.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/du-linux-command-line-disk-usage.html Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org on May 1, 2007. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. When you need to know how much space a file or directory is using, du (Disk Usage) is the right too… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/iotop-real-time-input-output-disk-monitor-tool.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/iotop-real-time-input-output-disk-monitor-tool.html Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org on March 30, 2009. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Continuing with my review of performance tools, I will now introduce you to iotop, a top-like to… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/history-command-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/history-command-linux.html Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org on December 20, 2008. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. history is one of those commands I use every day. Once you learn a few tricks around it, you … https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/htop-linux-command-line.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/htop-linux-command-line.html Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org on August 6, 2007. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Almost every Linux user has used top to check how the system is doing — running processes, CPU u… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/grep-linux-command-line.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/grep-linux-command-line.html Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org on August 15, 2007. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction grep is a utility to look for specific strings in files, searching line by line. Y… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/tail-linux-command-line.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/tail-linux-command-line.html Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org on May 5, 2007. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. This command is related to head, but opposite — instead of displaying the beginning of a file, it d… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/docker-for-self-hosting-on-a-vps-no-kubernetes-needed.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/docker-for-self-hosting-on-a-vps-no-kubernetes-needed.html Tue, 26 May 2026 17:41:11 +0000 As mentioned in this post about garron.me coming back, this site is self-hosted again. I have been self-hosting my sites since 2008 with Go2Linux, back when it was Drupal running on a Linode VPS, through the years I have experimented with Varnish, Nginx and written posts about all of that. This time… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/the-site-is-back-after-two-years-offline.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/the-site-is-back-after-two-years-offline.html Tue, 26 May 2026 16:40:45 +0000 The site is back, after being offline for almost two years and going three years without new content. The site went down when I migrated servers, and because it was generated with Middleman, it was complicated to get it online again. Now, with the help of AI (more about this later), I was able to br… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/ten-useful-docker-commands.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/ten-useful-docker-commands.html Wed, 29 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction Docker launched in 2011, but was founded in 2010 by Solomon Hykes, and was finally released to the public in 2013. Docker is an Open Source project, that allows running virtualized containers where complete applications run. It is like Virtual Machines, but, a lot lighter, because the K… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/logs-docker-compose.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/logs-docker-compose.html Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 If you need to check the logs of a Docker compose created container, just go to the folder where the docker-compose.yml file is and run these commands. docker-compose ps That will have an output like this: Name Command State Ports ---------------------------------------------------------------------… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/arch-linux-aur-unkdown-public-key.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/arch-linux-aur-unkdown-public-key.html Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction Just a small tip for me to remember when this happens again, as it was not easy to solve. Arch Linux error When trying to install something from AUR, after downloading it with git, I got this error. ==> Making package: caddy2 2.1.1-3 (Thu 09 Jul 2020 08:21:05 PM UTC) ==> Checking runtim… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/add-second-private-key-to-ssh.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/add-second-private-key-to-ssh.html Mon, 06 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction You can log into Linux servers using passwords, or log in with no password, using ssh key, but there are times when it is not you who create the private/public key pair, or when you want to use a diferente key pair to log to another server. One key pair for one server and another for th… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-wallabag-ubuntu-nginx-sqlite.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-wallabag-ubuntu-nginx-sqlite.html Sat, 04 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction Wallabag is an open source alternative for Pocket and similar services or tools, it is Open Source and you can run it on your server. You can read my Wallabag review if you like. Installation Preparing the server We will need to prepare the server first sudo apt update && sudo apt upgra… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/how-to-print-text-between-characters-awk.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/how-to-print-text-between-characters-awk.html Sun, 14 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Today while configuring my other blog to be hosted at vercel and moving it out from Apache, I had the need to create a redirect file from my htaccess file, so I needed first to print extract the file-names from a long string, the good thing was that the file-names were between a slash /. These are t… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/list-cron-jobs-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/list-cron-jobs-linux.html Tue, 02 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Part of the maintenance tasks of a Linux system are repetitive, fortunately Linux offers you cronjobs. What are cronjobs? Cron jobs are repetitive tasks executed by the cron daemon, and a deamon is a program that runs all the time in a Linux system, so cron deamon takes care of these tasks and execu… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/how-to-create-users-in-linux-with-useradd-command.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/how-to-create-users-in-linux-with-useradd-command.html Sun, 31 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Linux as all Unix like operating systems are multi users, that means that multiple users can log into the system, actually multiple users can be logged at the same time, all of then using the computer resources. Users can also be asigned to groups, that gives Linux systems a lot of flexibility. If y… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/add-service-systemd-systemctl.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/add-service-systemd-systemctl.html Sun, 31 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Some years ago ArchLinux started to use systemd instead of init scripts, I like init scripts more, but you have to adapt. So, How to add a new service to be managed by systemd? We'll see just the basic options, systemd has its files at: /etc/systemd/system, so if you want your service to managed by … https://www.garron.me/en/linux/debian-backports.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/debian-backports.html Sat, 23 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction Debian backports are according to its homepage Backports are packages taken from the next Debian release (called "testing"), adjusted and recompiled for usage on Debian stable. Because the package is also present in the next Debian release, you can easily upgrade your stable+backports s… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-ruby-2.3.3-ubuntu.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-ruby-2.3.3-ubuntu.html Fri, 22 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 The problem I needed to install ruby 2.3.x actually, it was 2.3.3, I am trying to do it on Ubuntu 20.04, I have followed this guide, but it stops with this error. Last 10 log lines: installing rdoc: /home/user/.rbenv/versions/2.3.3/share/ri/2.3.0/system installing capi-docs: /home/user/.rbenv/versio… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-zoom-ubuntu.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-zoom-ubuntu.html Thu, 21 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 If you are running Ubuntu you can install Zoom in two different ways Option number 1 Be sure you have your system up to date sudo apt update Install dependencies sudo apt install libglib2.0-0 libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0 libxcb-shape0 libxcb-shm0 libxcb-xfixes0 libxcb-randr0 libxcb-image0 libfont… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/create-virtual-environment-python.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/create-virtual-environment-python.html Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 To work with Python projects, it is advisable to create virtual environment, that way each project can have its own modules, and even differente versions of modules and does not interfere with another one. We are going to use python3 and Ubuntu 20.04 for this tutorial. Install python venv sudo apt i… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/access-wsl-files-from-windows.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/access-wsl-files-from-windows.html Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 The latest version of Windows 10 at the time of this writing, is able to access files on Linux installed in WSL through Windows Explorer. There are two ways. From Linux Go to the folder you want to acces in Windows, and enter this command. explorer.exe . Fron Windows Explorer Open Windows Explorer a… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-pip-ubuntu.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-pip-ubuntu.html Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Pip is a tool to manage Python modules, it lets you find, install, updated and remove packages, just like apt does for Debian. Python Version Ubuntu 20.04 comes with python3 installed by default, and if you are starting a new project python3 is what you have to use, phthon2 can be installed, but it … https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-nodejs-ubuntu.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-nodejs-ubuntu.html Tue, 19 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 How to install NodeJS on Ubuntu If you want to install NodeJS in a different version than the one that comes with your Ubuntu distribution, you may proceed this way. First thing, you need to install needed packages. apt-get install build-essential Now, choose one of the next lines, depending on the … https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-ruby-rbenv-ubuntu-20.04.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-ruby-rbenv-ubuntu-20.04.html Sat, 16 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Installing ruby on Ubuntu 20.04 using rbenv is at the time of this writing the most recommenden method. First things first, update your computer. sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade Then install dependencies sudo apt install zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/sshd-no-hostkeys-available-exiting.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/sshd-no-hostkeys-available-exiting.html Mon, 11 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Today while trying to start ssh server on my WSL Ubuntu installation, I got this error: sshd: no hostkeys available -- exiting After searching on the web, I found that the solution was really simple, at least in this case. I only needed to run ssh-keygen -A In the /etc/ssh/ folder, and the start the… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/password-protect-file.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/password-protect-file.html Sat, 09 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Any file can be password protected if you are using Linux, that is a good idea, in order to have them stored in the cloud, or carry them in a usb dongle. To encrypt a file in Linux we will use, gpg which is parte of the GnuPG. Syntax of gpg gpg -c filename.ext Let's imagine we have a file called my-… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-brackets-ubuntu-20.04.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-brackets-ubuntu-20.04.html Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Brackets is one of the best HTML, CSS and text editor for me, is open source and really easy to use, with not too much noise. So, if you are running Ubuntu and want it, the best way to install it is with snap, so, just enter this command. snap install brackets If you get this warning: error: This re… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/upgrade-ubuntu-18-04-to-20.04.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/upgrade-ubuntu-18-04-to-20.04.html Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Ubuntu has released last month the LTS version, one that comes every two years and with Long Term Support of five years. I was using 18.04 in my laptop and now I will upgrade to 20.04, so, how to upgrade Ubuntu? As I always prefer the terminal, let's do it that way. Update and upgrade your current r… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/clean-git-repo.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/clean-git-repo.html Sun, 26 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Today I needed to start a new blog, in order to post about another topics not related to Linux, FOSS, server admin and so on. I did not want to start from zero, yes I am lazzy, so I just copy the git repo this blog is in to another folder, and from there I had to remove all posts, images and site sp… https://www.garron.me/en/pictures/cuarentena.html https://www.garron.me/en/pictures/cuarentena.html Sun, 19 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Empty streets in Bolivia because of Covid-19 Empty streets in Bolivia because of Covid-19 https://www.garron.me/en/linux/apache-static-site-docker-ubuntu.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/apache-static-site-docker-ubuntu.html Thu, 09 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction Docker is a platform that lets you run applications in containers, with all its libraries and needed software so it can run the same in any computer with Docker installed, no matter what other software is installed on the host. Unlike Virtual Machines, docker uses the same kernel of the… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/rsync.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/rsync.html Sun, 05 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction rsync stands for remote sync and it is a tool to synchronize to directories being them in the same host or to sync a remote with a local server. Any time you need to copy files from one directory to another or from one server to another and copy only files that have changed, then you ca… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/spotify-linux-cli.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/spotify-linux-cli.html Sun, 05 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction I like to use everything from the terminal when on Linux, just because it is possible, but because of its low use of memory it is also a good idea to run on the terminal anything you can run on it, that is the case of Spotify, there is an official app for Linux but it consumes too much … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/build-essential-arch-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/build-essential-arch-linux.html Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 I usually run Ubuntu or Debian servers, but I like Arch Linux a lot. So when I need to compile software in Arch Linux, I come to the question of what is the equivalent of build-essential package in Arch Linux. The package build-essential is a set of packages that you need in order the compile softwa… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/logrotate.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/logrotate.html Tue, 31 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction As a Linux sysadmin, you know that logs are part of the tools you have to solve problems, when there an error in the server, the only way to know what is happening are the logs. As important as they are, you need to keep copies of them on your server, but not for ever, you have to decid… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/undo-redo-vim.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/undo-redo-vim.html Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction Vim is one of the most used text editor in Linux, it is also used by Mac OS users, it is very powerfull and it is my favorite one. Undo on vim Some years ago I have already written about vim undo but here it is again. If you make a mistake while editing text on Linux with vim, while not… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/remove-trailing-slash-htaccess.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/remove-trailing-slash-htaccess.html Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 In order to avoid duplicate content like this: http://domain/page and http://domain/page/ It is a good idea to remove the trailing slash from the URI, if you are using Apache, that can be done with the .htaccess file. Just add these lines and it will work. RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILE… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/uses-of-wget.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/uses-of-wget.html Sun, 29 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Overview wget is part of the command line tools in Linux, and it is used to download files from the Internet, using different protocols, it can download one file, lots of files, work in batchs and a lot more. Syntax The command syntax is: wget [options] [url] You can use it with no options, and poin… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-ncurses-library-ubuntu-debian.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-ncurses-library-ubuntu-debian.html Sun, 29 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 How do I install ncurses on Ubuntu? ncurses is needed by some software you may need to compile in your Linux, and before you install that software you need to install ncurses library. If you are running Debian or Ubuntu, you can do it with this simple command on a terminal sudo apt-get install libnc… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/which-ubuntu-version-am-i-running.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/which-ubuntu-version-am-i-running.html Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Ubuntu Linux comes in two flavors, one comes with Long Term Support (LTS for short), and it is most appropiate for servers, as you will get support for many years, according with Ubuntu: A new LTS version is released every two years. In previous releases, a Long Term Support (LTS) version had three … https://www.garron.me/en/linux/pkill-command-explained.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/pkill-command-explained.html Fri, 20 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Overview When you are working with Linux and want to kill a process the first step is to get the Process ID or PID which you can do by using top or htop, but you can also use pkill pkill is like kill but uses search criteria to kill processes based on names, users or other criteria Syntax The comman… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/delete-directory-not-empty-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/delete-directory-not-empty-linux.html Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 To delete a directory or folder in Linux you use the command rmdir directoryname But that command only works when the folder is empty, what to do if it still has files? rm -rf directoryname Just be sure you are not deleting anything you may need later, as this has no fallback option. You can also us… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/find-and-delete-files-with-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/find-and-delete-files-with-linux.html Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 First of all, I want to warn you that any command that may delete files should be used with care, you may break or badly damage your Linux and get no warning about what is going to happen. You will only notice when it is too late. That said, I will show you how to delete files recursively, this is r… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/new-office-app-iphone-adroid.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/new-office-app-iphone-adroid.html Sun, 01 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Microsoft has just released a new app for iPhone and Android phones, it is the office suite. Yes I know that we had already had all the suite available for phones and tablets, but this time this is all programs in just one app. You know that before we had to install Word, Excel and Powerpoint separa… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/upgrade-centos-8.1.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/upgrade-centos-8.1.html Sat, 29 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 On february 9th CentOS-8 (1911) has been released, you can read the release note here In order to upgrade from 8.01 to version to CentOS 8.1 do this. yum update You need to run the previous command as root It is a good idea to reboot the system after the upgrade reboot Once again, run the command as… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/upgrade-middleman.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/upgrade-middleman.html Sun, 23 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 This is the method that worked for me, I am not sure if this is the correct one. All I did was to clone my blog from my git repository in another directory, then, using rbenv I have installed the 2.6.3 version of ruby and swithed to it. Then renamed the Gemfile.lock in order not to lose changes. mv … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/edit-wsl-linux-files-with-windows-editor.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/edit-wsl-linux-files-with-windows-editor.html Sun, 23 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 What I did was simply to create the files in my C:\something directory, and then copy to my Linux home folder using this command: cp /mnt/c/something/sometextfile /home/user/sometextfile Be sure to review the permissions as they might not match your needs. https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-ruby-on-ubuntu-with-rbenv.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-ruby-on-ubuntu-with-rbenv.html Sun, 23 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Overview This guide will help you install ruby on Ubuntu Linux, it was tested using WSL (Linux on Windows 10) and on an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS version. There are another ways to install ruby, being the easiest to install the Ubuntu version sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install r… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/running-ubuntu-on-windows-wsl.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/running-ubuntu-on-windows-wsl.html Sun, 23 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 In 2005 I stopped using Windows, and switched completly to Linux, I had it installed on my Laptop and my main home PC, in 2011 I wanted to buy a new laptop and decided to go with a MBP, I was so happy to be able to run a flavor of Unix on my laptop and have everything working without the hassle, I c… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/su-vs-sudo.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/su-vs-sudo.html Sat, 08 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000 With Linux like with most things in life you have different ways to accomplish a specific task, this is the case of su and sudo they are different commands with different goals but they are usually used one instead the other. From the man page: The su command is used to become another user during a … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/moving-from-ios-to-android.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/moving-from-ios-to-android.html Sat, 27 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 Background I am a guy that really loves to test new things and new set ups, I have been an Android user, then a Blackberry, then iOS and now I am back on Android again, and happy with the change Why am I moving I am moving mainly because of external situations that have nothing to do with iOS or And… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/spotify-apple-music.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/spotify-apple-music.html Sun, 20 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000 There are a lot of comparison articles about Apple Music vs Spotify, most of them center their analysis in the prices and number of songs and because the have almost the same price, and Spotify has as many songs as Apple Music, and unless you are looking for something really special you will find th… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/iphone-se.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/iphone-se.html Sat, 16 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0000 Some years ago I have written about iPhone my best option after Blackberry I have used a Blackberry until August 2014. I have replaced it with a Moto G for one and a half year, after it I got a second hand iPhone 5S, used it for one year and since two months ago I've using an iPhone SE It was a grea… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ian-murdock.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ian-murdock.html Wed, 30 Dec 2015 00:00:00 +0000 On Monday night the world in general, and the world of Open Source in particular have lost one of its most memorable individuals, Ian Murdock has died at the age of 42. If you are a Linux user, you should have heard about him, he has created Debian in 1993. Debian is the most famous and more used Li… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/shutdown-reboot.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/shutdown-reboot.html Sat, 04 Jul 2015 00:00:00 +0000 How to shutdown or reboot a Linux computer from the command line? Well it is actually one of the first things you learn when you administer servers via ssh, let's start with restart. bc. reboot You need to be root to be able to restart a Linux system, or you can use sudo (provided you are in the sud… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/middleman.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/middleman.html Sun, 21 Jun 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Three weeks ago I have decided to move away from Jekyll and start using Middleman to generate this site, the next weekend I will post about what was needed to make the switch, today I will post only about why I have switched. Since 2011 I have been blogging with Jekyll, from 2007 to 2011 it was Drup… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/cp-copy-files.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/cp-copy-files.html Sat, 30 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Spanish How to copy files on Linux or BSD systems from one location to another on the same computer? How to copy files and directories (folders) on Linux and BSD systems? The answer to the questions above is solved with the cp command, cp stands for copy and it is the command you have to use to copy… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/change-permissions-recursively.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/change-permissions-recursively.html Fri, 29 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 How to change permissions for a folder recursively If you want to changes permissions for all files and folders recursively for Owner, Group and others there is an easy way to do it. Let's say you want a folder to be Read and Write for Owner and Group. bc. sudo chmod -R ug+rw /some/folder The meanin… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/nginx-proxy_pass-404.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/nginx-proxy_pass-404.html Sun, 24 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Spanish How to make Nginx forward requirements to backend when an error 404 "file not found" Nginx is a great web server, but it is also great as a reverse proxy, and guess what, it is great when doing both things at once. 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If you want to know which packages are installed in your Ubuntu box dpkg is a handy tool dpkg --get-selections That will list all installed packages in the computer, if you want to narrow your search combine it with grep dpkg --get-selections | grep php … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/freebsd-recompile-new-options.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/freebsd-recompile-new-options.html Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 How to recompile software in FreeBSD with new options There are times when you need to compile again a software, but you want to add a new module o compile it with a new option. Here are the steps to do it. Go to the port folder. cd /usr/ports/port/folder De-install the old software make deinstall C… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/apache-event-php-fpm-mariadb-freebsd.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/apache-event-php-fpm-mariadb-freebsd.html Sun, 01 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction I always liked the bsd-like ports that Slackware Linux uses and now that Digital Ocean offers FreeBSD I am having a great time working with it. Today I want to show you how to setup an FAMP (Apache 2.4, MySQL and PHP on FreeBSD 10), we will be installing Apache using Event MPM, and PHP-… https://www.garron.me/en/tech/web-whatsapp.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/web-whatsapp.html Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction With some 700 million users around the world, WhatsApp is the most popular instant messaging app in Europe and Latin America. And recently has announced a long waited feature. 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[Update] Somebody sent me an email telling me that this commands are a l… https://www.garron.me/en/mac/brew-update.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/brew-update.html Sun, 17 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Problem updating brew on Mac After trying to update brew on my Mac today I have run into this error: ggarron$ brew update error: SSL certificate problem: Invalid certificate chain while accessing https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew.git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack fatal: HTTP request failed Er… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/full-headers-outlook.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/full-headers-outlook.html Sat, 16 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 In case you need to see the full headers of an email while using Outlook 2011 on your Mac, here is the simplest way. Right click on the email and choose View Source https://www.garron.me/en/linux/debian-anniversary.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/debian-anniversary.html Sat, 16 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Debian Anniversary Today August 16th is the 21st anniversary of the GNU/Linux distribution Debian. It was released by Ian Murdock on this day 21 years ago. The name is derived from the combination of Ian's girlfriend at that time Debra, and his own name. Since then Debian has just grown in popularit… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/bash-password-manager.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/bash-password-manager.html Sat, 16 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Your own password manager There are a lot of options when your want and application to store and manage your passwords. Maybe the best known options are: LastPass Keepass Dashlane Keeper And more But if you are the kind of guy that wants everything simple (KISS principle, remember?), and done by you… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/writing.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/writing.html Mon, 11 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 On Writing For some reason I can't really explain I love writing, I know I am not good at it, specially when I do it in English, anyway I keep doing and doing it. I also know not too many people read what I write, maybe with the exemption of my Linux tutorials, where they arrive mostly after a Googl… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/boxer-app.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/boxer-app.html Sun, 10 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Boxer for Android Three days ago I have received an invitation to join another users to beta test the Boxer app for Android. What is Boxer? Boxer created one of the best email applications for iOS, it comes with features like: SWIPE TO DELETE - Swipe to archive, trash, spam CLOUD ATTACHMENTS - Dropb… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/thunderbird-best-practices.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/thunderbird-best-practices.html Sun, 03 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Thunderbird Best Practices Thunderbird is the email client from Mozilla, it has been around since a long time ago, and it evolved to have all you need from an email client. Even though there are other solutions, and that most people read their emails from mobile devices, I do still use my desktop cl… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/svbtle-vs-medium.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/svbtle-vs-medium.html Sat, 02 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Since last October I've been away from the Internet, well not completely, but not following my favorite blogs in a daily basis, wait… Not even in a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Because of that I have missed the day when Svbtle opened its door to everyone interested in a nice space to blog. I have been… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/jekyll-comments-powered-google-plus.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/jekyll-comments-powered-google-plus.html Thu, 31 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Three years ago I moved my blog to Jekyll and since then I have been very happy with it, with the time I have changed the way it looks and have gone from comments to no comments. Right now I am switching again, I am switching from Disqus to Google Plus to handle the comments on this blog. No real re… https://www.garron.me/en/mac/vnstat-mac-traffic-monitor-tool.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/vnstat-mac-traffic-monitor-tool.html Sat, 28 Jun 2014 00:00:00 +0000 If you have a capped connection to the Internet, something like LTE o 3G connection, then you may want to monitor how much bandwidth your Mac is using. There are some tools to help you on this. The best option for me is vnstat, it will let you monitor the monthly used bandwidth by your Mac, then you… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/apt-get-1.0-released.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/apt-get-1.0-released.html Sat, 19 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000 I love Debian, it is together with Arch Linux my favorite distribution of GNU Linux. One thing I love about Debian is apt, actually I switched from Fedora/CentOS to Debian/Ubuntu because in my opinion APT is a lot better than YUM. Being APT as good as it could be, there is always room for improvemen… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/windows-8.1-email-app.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/windows-8.1-email-app.html Wed, 22 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Maybe because I am a little old (40 years old) I am not an "addict" of Facebook or Instagram, but I have to admit I'm an addict of email. I am constantly evaluating new email applications and services. Because I am forced to work with Windows again I have tested and used the Windows 8 and 8.1 email … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/windows-8.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/windows-8.html Sun, 05 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 I have stopped using Windows on 2011 and since then I have been using exclusively Mac OS X and Linux but on October 2013 I have started a new job, and I have been given a Dell Inspiron with Windows 8. The company I work for uses Exchange server so Windows and Outlook is something very usef ul. Well … https://www.garron.me/en/food/quinoa-salad.html https://www.garron.me/en/food/quinoa-salad.html Sun, 17 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 One of the things I enjoyed the most from my last trip to Israel have been eating lots of salads. Now that I am back to Bolivia, and having easy and cheap access to quinoa here, I have starting trying diferent recipes of quinoa salads. Let's try one of them. Ingredients two portions Quinoa Real (1/2… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ghost.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ghost.html Sun, 17 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Sometimes it seems like everything has been done in a specific field, and talking about blogging one may think that everything has already been implemented. We have Wordpress, and a lot of other CMS tools which can be used to blog, we have some minimalistic tools for geeks, like Jekyll, and we have … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/extraterrestial.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/extraterrestial.html Sat, 16 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 In July 7, 1947 an object crashed in a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico. The theories behind what may have happened there varies, but the most common explanation is that an space aircraft, coming from other world is what have crashed there that day. The official story says that an experimental surveilla… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/enjoy-yourself.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/enjoy-yourself.html Sat, 16 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 When I was a kid I loved playing soccer, I was not good at it but liked it anyway. I was playing soccer in every chance I got. It did not really matter if I was good or not, the real thing was that I enjoyed myself doing it. That is how kids usually see the life, they enjoy something, and they do it… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/happiness.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/happiness.html Sat, 16 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Siddhārtha Gautama, better known as Buddha said: Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. He spent good part of his life searching for the "secret" of happiness, and found that it can be achieved by eliminating the causes of suffering. And whi… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/blogging-break.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/blogging-break.html Sat, 02 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I have started blogging in 2007, it has been a wonderful experience, I have met some great people because of blogging, I have received so may good comments about my site, and have enjoyed every minute about writing here. I have learned a lot during my researching in order to prepare every article po… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ioflare-review-new-vps-provider.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ioflare-review-new-vps-provider.html Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000 ##Introduction ioFlare is a new VPS provider that will be launching in a week, as you will see below Vance (CEO of ioFlare) and his team are planning to offer a new VPS option for all the hacker community. They are aiming at giving us some real competitive prices, and great performance at the same t… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/best-phone-at-email.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/best-phone-at-email.html Fri, 27 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I have been a Linux and free software advocate for years, and I still am, but I also like to think that I am objective and not just like any other fan-boy. When it comes to smart phones, I have tested Blackberries, Android Phones and even though I have never had an iPhone, I do have used an iPad, an… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/bbm-for-android-ios.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/bbm-for-android-ios.html Sun, 15 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Almost everybody may know what BBM is, but if you don't it stands for (Blackberry Messenger), and it is just that, a messaging platform designed for Blackberry smartphones, and until 2010 (give or take) it was the most used messaging platform in the world. When iPhones and Android phones started to … https://www.garron.me/en/linux/elementary-luna.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/elementary-luna.html Mon, 26 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction I have installed a week ago with Elementary Luna, if you like GNU/Linux operating Linux, then you should have heard about Elementary Luna but if not, I will tell you that Elementary Luna is a new GNU/Linux distribution that is based on Ubuntu 12.04, the last Long term Ubuntu released. E… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/smartphone-setup.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/smartphone-setup.html Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000 For the last year I have been using an Android phone (Galaxy S3 from Samsung), I use it mostly for email, and I hosted my main email account on Google Apps. I also own an iPod touch fifth generation. I found out that my main usage of a smartphone was for email (it is very important for my job), the … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/wget-background-limit-rate-resume-download.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/wget-background-limit-rate-resume-download.html Fri, 16 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I use curl and wget a lot, because I like downloading ISO images to test new GNU/Linux distributions, but I do not have a lot of bandwidth, so that usually means that I have to left my PC on downloading the file at night. I also like to watch movies on Netflix in my Galaxy S3 or iPod Touch, so I hav… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/wordpress-multi-site-topic-category-blog-network.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/wordpress-multi-site-topic-category-blog-network.html Tue, 30 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Well, some of you know I love to test new things, and Jekyll was one of those things. I have been blogging on Drupal for years, and then I switched to Jekyll for this site. I have created it with multiple section some kind of mini-sites. I mean it is like a sub-folder installation of Wordpress Netwo… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/vegetarian-experiment.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/vegetarian-experiment.html Thu, 25 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Five years ago I started my journey to fitness, I started with spinning and weight lifting. Then I realized that it does not matter how much I exercise, I needed to eath healthy and wisely. I started reading, about nutrition and not only reading, I have started experimenting on my body with differen… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/apache-mpm-worker-php-fpm-mysql-centos.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/apache-mpm-worker-php-fpm-mysql-centos.html Sat, 13 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction A LAMP server is one of the most used configurations of the GNU/Linux operating system. And being Wordpress the most used CMS to power Internet sites, it is not surprise that Apache + PHP + MySQL is mostly used to power Wordpress installations. Apache can work in different modes, being … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/wget-resume-continue-broken-download.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/wget-resume-continue-broken-download.html Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 When you are downloading big files from the Internet, there is always the risk to get your download interrupted and then you end up with a broken file. Is there a way to continue the download of a broken download file? Fortunately for us, the answer is yes, you can use wget for that. You usually wil… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/limit-wget-bandwidth.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/limit-wget-bandwidth.html Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 When you are downloading a very big file over the Internet, and you are sharing the Internet conection with others, for example with your family at home. It would nice to limit the rate at which your file is being downloaded to left enough room in the conection for the rest to use. Fortunately that … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/jekyll-multi-language.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/jekyll-multi-language.html Fri, 05 Jul 2013 00:00:00 +0000 ##Introduction It's been a while that I am writing a blog, but mostly in English, being my native tongue Spanish I wanted to also write in that language, but I needed to find the way to keep one site being it multi-lingual. Now that I am using Jekyll for more than a year, I started to look a way to … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/warning-creating-default-object-empty-value-wordpress.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/warning-creating-default-object-empty-value-wordpress.html Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Today, while installing a Wordpress Multisite application, I have started to see lots of this messages "Warning: Creating default object from empty value in wordpress". Those were appearing in the front-end of Wordpress, when activating a new site. After searching a lot on Google for a solution, I h… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/provide-share-buttons-without-exposing-your-visitors.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/provide-share-buttons-without-exposing-your-visitors.html Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 ##Introduction Providing or not providing share buttons in your posts is something that some consider useful, while others consider is not necesary. The arguments are: In favor You are giving your visitors an easy way to share your content, if they want to. Against If someone wants to share your con… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/backup-git-bare-repo.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/backup-git-bare-repo.html Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 ##Introduction Git is great to version control your work, and it is also good that is does not have a central repository, but a distributed authority. Anyway, when you create bare repository to sync the job between different contributors, you are somehow in a "virtual" way creating a centralized aut… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/cron-job-crontab-how-to-examples.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/cron-job-crontab-how-to-examples.html Wed, 26 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 ##Introduction Cron jobs are added tasks to the cron daemon, for it to run them periodically, at specific times. You usually want your jobs or tasks executed every, Monday, or every day at 5 pm, etc. Cron is very powerful and flexible, so you can tweak it a lot. Let's see what cron is. Cron is a tim… https://www.garron.me/en/tech/add-custom-domain-outlook-com.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/add-custom-domain-outlook-com.html Fri, 21 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Note: Microsoft have disabled the option to add custom domains to Outlook.com service, now you shoudl go to Office 365 and the the Exchange package to have your own domain with Microsoft service. You will get a full Exchange server in this case. Every knows that you can use Google server to host ema… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/recursively-count-files-unix-linux-mac-bash.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/recursively-count-files-unix-linux-mac-bash.html Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Spanish version How to know how many files are there recursively in a folder? The answer to that questions is easy to answer with this command. find [YOUR_FOLDER] -type f ¦ wc -l If you want to start in the current folder the command is: find . -type f ¦ wc -l And if you want a specific type of file… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/in-house-comments-solution-jekyll.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/in-house-comments-solution-jekyll.html Thu, 20 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I have been blogging with the help of Jekyll for more than two years I think, and during this time I have enabled and disabled comments. I have used Disqus, Facebook, livefyre, and a plugin to manage the comments as emails. Among all the third party comment system Disqus is the best one for me, it w… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/when-to-choose-drupal-or-wordpress.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/when-to-choose-drupal-or-wordpress.html Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 ##Introduction Over the last two weeks I have been working on creating some sites with both Wordpress and Drupal. I have been experimenting with Drupal 7, Wordpress 3.5 and 3.6 (still in beta by the time of writing). I have also tried Buddy Press and BBPress. I have arrived to some conclusions on wh… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/insert-code-files-gist-jekyll.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/insert-code-files-gist-jekyll.html Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I have finally decided to start learning Ruby, and actually learn to code. I know this is going to be hard, as I am 40 years old already and I know is harder now than when I was 20. As a child I have seen some Basic programming language, and later a few of C++, where I learn a little about sub-routi… https://www.garron.me/en/tech/sync-open-tabs-firefox.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/sync-open-tabs-firefox.html Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I want to note that I am not going to show you how to sync Firefox between two different computers as it is already well documented by Mozilla. But once you have two PCs or a PC and a Tablet or phone with their Firefox synced, how do you access the open tabs in one device from the other one? And thi… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/switch-access-get-root-freebsd.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/switch-access-get-root-freebsd.html Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Spanish version How can a "normal" user get root rights, or actually switch to root account using the su command when working under FreeBSD? To do that, that "normal" user needs to be in wheel group. So this command will enable a given user to be able to switch to root account with the command su - … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/change-pkg_add-source-ftp-version.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/change-pkg_add-source-ftp-version.html Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Spanish version In FreeBSD when you want to install new software you use pkg_add you may have downloaded the package prior to the invoke of the pkg_add command. In such a case, you just enter something like this: pkg_add lsof-4.56.4.tgz But, you can also let pkg_add retrieve the package by you. pkg_… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/set-check-environment-freebsd.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/set-check-environment-freebsd.html Thu, 06 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Spanish version If you need to display or set new environment variables in FreeBSD operating system you will have the use the command env. This command will display the current values for all environmental pair, name / value. env The result would be like this: $ env SSH_CLIENT=200.87.xx.yy 58338 22 … https://www.garron.me/en/linux/centos-vs-debian.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/centos-vs-debian.html Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 ##Introduction When it comes to setup web servers, or Internet servers (web, email and ftp) there is usually two GNU/Linux distributions that comes to mind, Debian and CentOS. Some people are starting to use Ubuntu server, but let's focus on CentOS and Debian, as Ubuntu is a Debian derivative. I thi… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/delete-spaces-filename-linux-mac.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/delete-spaces-filename-linux-mac.html Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Spanish version Sometimes filenames include spaces, specially song filenames and also pictures / photos filenames. That is OK until you need to batch manage those files, then the script usually have problems working on those files with spaces in its filenames. Here is a simple way to get rid of spac… https://www.garron.me/en/pictures/orange-flower-black-white-over-color.html https://www.garron.me/en/pictures/orange-flower-black-white-over-color.html Sun, 02 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Orange flower where the green grass behind has been converted to black and white, and only the flower selection kept its colors. All worked with Gimp https://www.garron.me/en/blog/tiny-tiny-rss-google-reader-replacement-install-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/tiny-tiny-rss-google-reader-replacement-install-linux.html Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 ##Google reader replacement Google reader is going to shut down its service in a little bit more than a month from now. They are doing that because there are very few people using their service. Well RSS is something most of the people do not even know about, I know the readers of this blog know abo… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/self-hosting-services-cloud.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/self-hosting-services-cloud.html Mon, 27 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 ##Away from the cloud More and more people are moving to the cloud[^1], moving documents, getting services, and everything. People rely more and more on services hosted on someone else servers, instead of having them on their own PCs. This is not actually new, from the first time, we put our html pa… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/on-kiss-principle.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/on-kiss-principle.html Sun, 26 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 ##On KISS principle KISS according to Wikipedia is: KISS is an acronym for "Keep it simple, stupid" as a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960.The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complex. I am usually an advocate of this principle,… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/delete-mysql-table-tables.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/delete-mysql-table-tables.html Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Delete a MySQL Table To delete one or more tables on a MySQL database we use the drop command. Enter the MySQL command interface mysql -u [user] -p You will be prompted for for [users]'s password, and then you get the prompt. Select the database USE [database_name]; You can now list the tables of th… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/add-secondary-ip-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/add-secondary-ip-linux.html Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 ##Add a secondary IP to Linux ###Add a second temporary IP address Using ifconfig If you want to add a secondary IP address to a NIC already in use in Linux, and have that change only temporary. Enter this command: ifconfig [nic]:0 [IP-Address] netmask [mask] up An example is shown below ifconfig et… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/host-your-jekyll-blog-on-webfaction.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/host-your-jekyll-blog-on-webfaction.html Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 ##How to install Jekyll on Webfaction ###Introduction If you want to host Jekyll on Webfaction, you have do it in various ways. The easiest one, might be to generate your site locally and then rsync to a static-only site created on Webfaction. However, this tutorial considers this assumptions. You a… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ubuntu-is-not-consensus-based-community.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ubuntu-is-not-consensus-based-community.html Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Today I have come to a post in Jono Bacon's blog. The post is not actually about the topic of this posts. But it certainly have the text that inspired this post. Ubuntu is not a consensus-based community. Consensus communities rarely work, and I am not aware of any Open Source project that bases the… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/install-gsl-ruby-gem-ubuntu.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/install-gsl-ruby-gem-ubuntu.html Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I needed to install gsl ruby gem today on Ubuntu, in order to run Jekyll with --lsi option. I needed it to generate better lists of related posts. You first need to prepare Ubuntu to be able to install gsl ruby gem. sudo apt-get install libgsl0ldbl libgsl0-dev Now you can install gsl ruby gem on you… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/custom-404-nginx-apache.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/custom-404-nginx-apache.html Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Spanish version When you run a dynamic website, like one powered by PHP, Django or other similar, you have the option to manage the 404 (Not Found) pages very efficiently. Your application will take care of that. But, when you are working with static websites, you do not have an application running … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/remove-vim-emacs-backup-files.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/remove-vim-emacs-backup-files.html Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Spanish version I work with Emacs and Vim a lot, as I do not want to use other text editors. I use them both on Mac or Linux. The only problem I find is that I end up with lots of backup files. Those files that end with a tilde (~) or start and end with a hash (#), also called pound symbol or number… https://www.garron.me/en/pictures/sunset-mediterranean-sea.html https://www.garron.me/en/pictures/sunset-mediterranean-sea.html Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I really love this picture, I have never thought it could be so nice. I was in a car in movement going for a dinner, there were no place to stop nearby to take the shot, so I just opened the window, grab my phone (Galaxy S3) as firmly as I could, my friend went as slow as the cars behind allowed him… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/jekyll-template-based-twitter-bootstrap-2.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/jekyll-template-based-twitter-bootstrap-2.html Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I have been working for some six hours last night in order to change the theme of this blog. I was having a hang out with Brandon Holtsclaw and Kev Quirk about a new project we are starting. When talking about theming, Brandon told me that Twitter Bootstrap was actually a lot easier than I would thi… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/why-i-hate-scrolling-prefer-pagination.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/why-i-hate-scrolling-prefer-pagination.html Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 A lot about pagination vs scrolling have been written already so I am not going to discuss here the technical reasons about why prefer one over the other. The only thing I am going to rant about is: Why I hate scrolling. First of all, for those who need an introduction to the topic here. I am talkin… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/install-postgresql-for-django-ubuntu-server.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/install-postgresql-for-django-ubuntu-server.html Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Spanish In case you are trying to install a Django application that may need a database, one really powerful is PostgreSQL, but to be able to use it, you firs need to install it. Under Ubuntu these are the steps neede to acomplish that. sudo apt-get install postgresql libpq-dev Then the psycopg2 Pyt… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/how-to-install-django-virtualenv-virtualenvwrapper-ubuntu.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/how-to-install-django-virtualenv-virtualenvwrapper-ubuntu.html Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Today for the very first time I needed to install a Django server, so after reading a little some links I had stored from my experiments with Hyde (Which needed Phyton, virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper) I was able to have it installed. So, let's see how to do it. Update your Ubuntu server sudo apt-g… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/ubuntu-network-speed-duplex-lan.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/ubuntu-network-speed-duplex-lan.html Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 If you need to change your Networks settings in Ubuntu from half duplex to full duplex or the other way, or if you need to change the speed of the port from 10, 100 or 1000 Mbps to any of the other options. Then, here is how to. Install the tools sudo apt-get install ethtool net-tools Check the name… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/future-of-gnu-linux-desktop.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/future-of-gnu-linux-desktop.html Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 In the last five years more or less, the way we use "computers" have changed a lot, specially because of Apple's iPhone and iPad, but also thanks to the offers of software as a service in the cloud. Because of this everyday less people depends on Windows for their day to day "computing" work. This m… https://www.garron.me/en/mac/how-to-enable-htaccess-apache-mac-os-x.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/how-to-enable-htaccess-apache-mac-os-x.html Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Spanish version Using your Mac for development of web applications or websites, is very easy as it already comes with Apache pre-installed, the problem is that .htaccess file does not work by default. But it is easy to enable it. First some changes in the main configuration file of Apache. sudo vim … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/new-structure-in-site.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/new-structure-in-site.html Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Some days ago I have started a Spanish section on this site, for this to work I created a new main section, which is just a sub-folder /es/ in the structure of the site. To make the site coherent, I also had to add another main section /en/ in the site, and move all the old sub-sections of the site … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/invalid-command-header-htaccess-apache.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/invalid-command-header-htaccess-apache.html Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 If you ever see this error in your logs, and you are getting "500 internal server error" from the server when you try to load pages. The problem is very simple to solve. If you are on Ubuntu do this: sudo cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ sudo ln -s ../mods-available/headers.load headers.load sudo servi… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ubuntu-now-supports-galaxy-s3.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ubuntu-now-supports-galaxy-s3.html Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 After finishing upgrading Ubuntu from 12.10 to 13.04 today, I have noticed that I can connect the Galaxy S3 directly to my Ubuntu PC. This is really a good thing. That is one of the things I like more about rolling releases than scheduled ones. I am sure this support for Galaxy phones was abailable … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/upgrade-ubuntu-to-new-version-terminal-ssh.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/upgrade-ubuntu-to-new-version-terminal-ssh.html Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 When a new version of Ubuntu is released, and you need to upgrade a server or a desktop, you can not access directly, the only option you have is to use the terminal and a ssh connection. As soon as you are logged in, run: sudo do-release-upgrade This will take care of everything. It will open a ter… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/undo-git-add-before-commit.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/undo-git-add-before-commit.html Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I have made some changed on my working directory the other day, not all changes were related between them, so I wanted to commit them separated with two different commit messages. But I run git add -A And the I realized that, I need to roll git add back. I was lucky I had not issued git commit yet. … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/spell-check-emacs.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/spell-check-emacs.html Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I have started using Emacs as my editor after some years of using Vim. Well, I am enjoying it, and learning how to use it. One of the most important things to start with is the spell check. At least for me, this is a must-have feature. First you need to be sure you have ispell or aspell installed. O… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/debian-it-ships-when-it-is-ready.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/debian-it-ships-when-it-is-ready.html Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Today I have read an article in the Svbtle Network It ships when it ships, considering that Debian is almost ready to be shipped, I immediately thought about how good this policy works for them. As Bjoern Zinssmeister propose, we all should try to have that policy, there are certain times when deadl… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/switched-to-feedly.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/switched-to-feedly.html Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Some weeks ago Google announced that its Google Reader service will stop working on July the 1st this year, so we all need to look for alternative ways to read and consume our RSS feeds. Maybe I am too oll style (maybe I am too old), but I just do not see the point of using Twitter or G+ to consume … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/working-as-a-coder-developer.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/working-as-a-coder-developer.html Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I am not a developer, nor a coder, actually I know almost nothing about coding. I would love to know, but I just never had the time to learn. When I was young I started with some programs in C++ and Basic to solve math problems, just for fun. Anyway, I love some of the tools that coders use, Git is … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/my-first-experience-with-emacs.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/my-first-experience-with-emacs.html Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Some time ago, I have started to write on this blog some of the articles using reStructuredText instead of Markdown. There is no particular reason, Markdown is great, but I like to learn new things. In the same logic, I am starting to edit my documents using Emacs instead of Vim. I have been using V… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/secure-wordpress-admin-account-brute-force-attack.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/secure-wordpress-admin-account-brute-force-attack.html Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Securing your servers Some days ago Wordpress sites have been under attack, being the most used CMS it is an obvious target for attacks. This time thousands of computers worked in a synchronized brute force attack to guess the admin account password. admin is the default administrative username when… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/gnu-linux-not-only-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/gnu-linux-not-only-linux.html Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Today I attended with a lot of other people to a Dr. Richard Stallman's conference. He talked about a lot of topics, some of them I will be commenting them. I want to start now with an error a lot of us make. Why GNU/Linux and not just Linux Dr. Stallman considers that a lot of damage to his effort … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/digital-ocean-vs-linode.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/digital-ocean-vs-linode.html Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Linode is one of the best VPS providers and it is usually the preferred one among geeks, and developers (Amazon EC2 is the other favorite). Some time ago, Digital Ocean came to the game with great offers, specially talking about money. They are very affordable, now anyone can afford a VPS, their pla… https://www.garron.me/en/tech/blackberry-OS-5-8520-bbm-7-voice-voip.blackberry.com-certificate-problem.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/blackberry-OS-5-8520-bbm-7-voice-voip.blackberry.com-certificate-problem.html Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 If you have a Blackberry 8520 with OS 5.0 and you have just upgraded to BBM 7 to enable BBM voice over WiFi, then you may be facing the same problem I found. When the Blackberry connects to a WiFi network it complains about the *.voip.blackberry.com certificate authenticity. You will get a message l… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/convert-resize-upload-mp4-ogg-ogv-video-for-html5-sites.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/convert-resize-upload-mp4-ogg-ogv-video-for-html5-sites.html Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 If you want to host your videos by your own instead of having them on youtube, you can use HTML5 standard. Today almost every browser support HTML5 vide tag, therefore there is no more reason to host your videos on Youtube or similar. You can host them by yourself, and if you have enough bandwidth y… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ben-gurion-international-airport-fountain.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ben-gurion-international-airport-fountain.html Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.garron.me/en/blog/why-microsoft-office-for-linux-would-be-good-news.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/why-microsoft-office-for-linux-would-be-good-news.html Sun, 17 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Today I have found this post. It states that almost no linux users care about Microsoft Office coming to Linux. At the end in the conclusion the author says: I guess you can call me a skeptic when it comes to Microsoft Office for Linux. I just don’t see the need for it, and I see comparatively few L… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/resize-lower-quality-pictures-for-web-publishing-imagemagick-batch.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/resize-lower-quality-pictures-for-web-publishing-imagemagick-batch.html Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 If you want to post pictures on your blog, or your site. You may want to change the quality to a lower one, and resize your pictures before. Today cameras take too big pictures, and they can make your site slow, and you will have to pay for a lot of bandwidth, so you better resize the pictures befor… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/rename-files-from-uppercase-to-lowercase.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/rename-files-from-uppercase-to-lowercase.html Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Usually songs and pictures have their names in uppercase if you are on a Unix like system, you know that A is not the same as a. So it is better to have file names in lowercase. If you want to convert your file names from uppercase to lowercase you can use this command: for i in *; do mv $i `echo $i… https://www.garron.me/en/food/paleo-diet-pork-tenderloin-vegetables-butter.html https://www.garron.me/en/food/paleo-diet-pork-tenderloin-vegetables-butter.html Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I like to eat meat, any kind of meat with vegetables. I tried this paleo diet recipe: Spicy pork tenderloin with vegetables. Ingredients Pork tenderloin Garlic (one or two gloves) Ground cumin Mustard Salt To prepare the pork, just mix the mustard with the smashed fresh garlic, ground cumin and salt… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/sharing-to-social-networks-ios-iphone-andriod.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/sharing-to-social-networks-ios-iphone-andriod.html Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I have been using both iOS (iPod Touch) and Android (Galaxy S3) to consume content, like reading my RSS news, checking my streams on Twitter and Google Plus. I have found that it is a better experience on Android than on iOS devices, specially when you want to share what you are reading with others.… https://www.garron.me/en/tech/configure-netflix-android-to-only-stream-over-wifi.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/configure-netflix-android-to-only-stream-over-wifi.html Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 You can configure Netflix for Android to be able to stream or watch instantly over the 3G network and WiFi or only over WiFi. If you do not have an unlimited data plan, or a big enough one, you may want to configure Netflix to work only over WiFi Networks. One movie can be more than 200 MBytes. To c… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/find-string-recursively-in-all-files-linux-mac-grep.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/find-string-recursively-in-all-files-linux-mac-grep.html Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Today I was moving all my static assets from static2 to static3 server, and after the change I needed to find if there still was an occurence of static2 string. To search all files recursively in all folders of the site, I used grep grep -r "string" . That command should be entered in the folder whe… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/start-stop-kvm-virtual-machine-command-line.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/start-stop-kvm-virtual-machine-command-line.html Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 KVM or Kernel Based Virtual Machine is a popular virtualization technology. It allows you to run virtual guest machines over a host machine. To start or stop virtual machines created on head-less servers you have to use the CLI or command line interface. There are more than one option, but we will s… https://www.garron.me/en/food/sausage-cream-pasta-recipe.html https://www.garron.me/en/food/sausage-cream-pasta-recipe.html Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I had some leftovers of the yesterday's barbecue, and I wanted to eat some pasta today. This is recipe is not light, you will have to watch the portions, if you are concerned about calories. Ingredients A cup of uncooked small-shape pasta 3 Sliced sausages 2 Table spoons of heavy cream 1/2 small cho… https://www.garron.me/en/food/barbecue-chicken-recipe.html https://www.garron.me/en/food/barbecue-chicken-recipe.html Sun, 10 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I like almost every kind of food, but I usually prefer to eat high protein and low carb food. This is the case of barbecue chicken. Here is my barbecue chicken recipe: What you need 8 Chicken legs (You can use tights too) 1/4 cup of wine vinegar Badia complete seasoning Sea salt How to prepare Put t… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/digital-ocean-vps-review.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/digital-ocean-vps-review.html Thu, 07 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 There is an incredible number of hosting providers out there, most of them offer you unlimited bandwidth, unlimited sites, unlimited everything, and charge you no more than a few bucks. To me, if you are serious about hosting your site, and you do not want to have turned off when a large number of v… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ubuntu-deb-proxy-cache.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ubuntu-deb-proxy-cache.html Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Ubuntu, Debian and all other Linux distributions use a lot of bandwidth by updating its packages. You can save both bandwidth and time by installing a proxy-cache that stores copies of downloaded packages and serves them locally to other computers when requested. Actually any cache will do. The prob… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-kvm-qemu-ubuntu.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-kvm-qemu-ubuntu.html Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a virtualization infrastructure for the Linux kernel. KVM requires a processor with hardware virtualization extension. I am installing it on my home PC, because there are some services I prefer not to install in my main installation. Like apt-cacher, LAMP, squid… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/ubuntu-configure-wired-or-wireless-network-only-for-internal-use-internet.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/ubuntu-configure-wired-or-wireless-network-only-for-internal-use-internet.html Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Say you have two network interfaces configured on your Ubuntu Desktop, and you want one of them to be used for Internet and the other only for its own internal resources. We will do this using the graphical interface and this how-to works for both Unity and Gnome Shell. Go to System Settings and the… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/configure-proxy-ubuntu-unity-gnome.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/configure-proxy-ubuntu-unity-gnome.html Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 So you are working with Ubuntu, and you need to manually configure the proxy your Ubuntu Desktop is going to use. The steps are almost the same for Unity or Gnome Shell. I use Gnome shell. Go to Network Settings, it is under System Settings. Select Network proxy Select the method to manual and enter… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/monitor-eth-lan-traffic-linux-unix-mac-os-x.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/monitor-eth-lan-traffic-linux-unix-mac-os-x.html Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 There are a lot of times when you need to monitor the network traffic of a server, if you are using a *nix server like Linux or Mac OS X then you can use vnstat. To install it on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install vnstat For Mac brew install vnstat Measure the traffic daily and monthly vnstat The output w… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/linux-create-file-with-date-in-name.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/linux-create-file-with-date-in-name.html Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 If you need to create a file where the file-name or at least part of it is the current system name you can use this format. touch file-`date +%F_%T`.txt This is useful if you are creating reports daily, and you do not want to override them. Suppose you are backing up your MySQL database. mysqldump -… https://www.garron.me/en/tech/vine-new-twitter-app-6-seconds-video-sharing.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/vine-new-twitter-app-6-seconds-video-sharing.html Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Last week Vine was introduced to the public, it is a new video sharing service. You can download the app for iOS. It is still not available app for Android but I am sure that is going to change soon. Just like Twitter with 140 characters, Vine gives you only six seconds of video sharing. The app tak… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/learning-to-use-git-branches.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/learning-to-use-git-branches.html Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Working with Git branches I am using Git to version control this blog. As I am the only one contributor to the blog, I really do not need branches at all. But because I want to learn a little bit more about Git, I have decided to use branches for writing draft posts. Of course Git branches are great… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/htaccess-no-cache.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/htaccess-no-cache.html Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Sometimes you want to avoid caching of your website, maybe you are developing it and you want to see the fresh copy each time you hit reload. Provided that all caches in the path will obey these directives, this is the way you can do it. I am also assuming you are using Apache and have access to .ht… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/iptables-open-port-for-specific-ip.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/iptables-open-port-for-specific-ip.html Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Sometimes you need to open a port on your server, you want it to be recheable only from specific IP address, you can use Iptables for this: iptables -I INPUT -p tcp -s 10.1.1.2 --dport 22 -j ACCEPT In that case, you are opening ssh port only to IP 10.1.1.2, if you need to open DNS for your internal … https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-cacti-on-ubuntu-php-fpm.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-cacti-on-ubuntu-php-fpm.html Sun, 27 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction If you need to monitor Linux servers, or routers, or any other SNMP enabled device or software, Cacti is maybe your best choice. Cacti is a complete network graphing solution designed to harness the power of RRDTool's data storage and graphing functionality. Cacti provides a fast poller… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/ssh-key-keygen-login-no-password.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/ssh-key-keygen-login-no-password.html Thu, 24 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 SSH keys Log into ssh servers (Mac OS X or Linux) without passwords, using ssh key. How to generate them with ssh-keygen and install on the server --- Arch Linux Wiki Generate ssh keys To generate your private and public keys for ssh login with no password we will use ssh-keygen in the client comput… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/cant-install-fastcgi-ubuntu-server-package-libapache2-mod-fastcgi-is-not-available.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/cant-install-fastcgi-ubuntu-server-package-libapache2-mod-fastcgi-is-not-available.html Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Today while trying to install php-fpm to work with Apache in an Ubuntu server I've got this: sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-fastcgi The error was: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package libapache2-mod-fastcgi is not available, but is ref… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/create-add-swap-file-ubuntu.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/create-add-swap-file-ubuntu.html Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Memory in Linux is can be increased by create swap space, it can be a special partition, or a file which will work as a swap file. We will cover now, how to create a swap file. Create a swap file sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=512k Where: bs=1024: Says that each block is made of 102… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/migrate-mysql-database-another-server.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/migrate-mysql-database-another-server.html Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 If you are moving to another hosting provider, or for any other reason you need to move or migrate your MySQL database you can use these instructions. Make the backup of the database mysqldump -u root -p --opt [database_name] > /tmp/[database_name].sql Where database_name is the database you want to… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ubuntu-one-vs-dropbox.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ubuntu-one-vs-dropbox.html Sun, 20 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I will compare Ubuntu One and Dropbox, both basically offer cloud storage. It is free for small amounts of data stored, and for a price you get more space. Both offer the option to sync different devices connected to the same account, but there are differences which may you help decide which one is … https://www.garron.me/en/tech/swiftkey-one-of-best-android-keyboard-app.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/swiftkey-one-of-best-android-keyboard-app.html Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 One thing that still today a lot of users miss from Blackberry, is the hardware keyboard, typing in a touch screen is not as easy as using a real keyboard. They have improved a lot since the first days of the iPhone and right now with the iPhone 5, and more space for the keyboard in landscape mode i… https://www.garron.me/en/tech/how-to-take-screenshot-android-samsung-galaxy-s3.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/how-to-take-screenshot-android-samsung-galaxy-s3.html Fri, 18 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 To take screenshots with the Samsung Galaxy S3 Android phone, is only a matter of a gesture with you hand. First we have to enable it at: Settings -> Motion -> Palm swipe to capture Enable it. And also be sure that in the former step, Motion is also enabled: Now that it is enable, just swipe the scr… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/convert-store-copy-bootable-usb-iso-file-another-usb.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/convert-store-copy-bootable-usb-iso-file-another-usb.html Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 If you have a bootable usb key, or a ssd bootable memory, that you want to store for backup purposes, or you want to clone to another usb media or ssd disk, follow this guide. First be sure to know where your media is located by Linux or Mac. I use df instead of fdisk, because it is easier. First ru… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/avoid-varnish-cache-404-error-page.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/avoid-varnish-cache-404-error-page.html Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 If Varnish Cache is caching 404 error code pages from the backend, you can change this behaviour by adding this to the vcl In the vcl_fetch section add this: if (beresp.status == 404) { set beresp.ttl = 30s; } You can change 30s to 0s if you do not want to cache 404 error codes at all. I prefer to c… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/install-piwik-behind-varnish.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/install-piwik-behind-varnish.html Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Piwik is a good replacement for Google Analytics, and good options for you if you do not want to use cookies for your analytics solution. With it you can run analytics without cookies If you install it behind a reverse proxy you can face some issues, it is supposed to automatically detect the revers… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/analytics-web-stats-without-google-cookies.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/analytics-web-stats-without-google-cookies.html Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 With companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter getting more and more info about us while browsing the web. And with them even being able to identify us directly and record our browsing history. There are more and more people that do not like this, so, if you are hosting your own site, and you thin… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/custom-404-page-not-found-error-apache2-ubuntu-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/custom-404-page-not-found-error-apache2-ubuntu-linux.html Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Two years ago I have posted about how to set custom 404 "Page not found" error in Nginx. I am working more with Apache than with Nginx these days. After learning about Apache MPM Worker I started with Apache again. Well today I will show you different ways to configure 404 custom pages with Apache2.… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/apache2-could-not-reliably-determine-fully-qualified-ServerName.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/apache2-could-not-reliably-determine-fully-qualified-ServerName.html Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 If Apache2 in Ubuntu gives you this error: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.1.1 for ServerName all you need to do is to add a the variable ServerName to the Apache configuration. You can add it to apache2.conf at the end of the file. ServerN… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/quo-vadis-ubuntu.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/quo-vadis-ubuntu.html Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Today I have read this blog post -In Spanish- about the way Ubuntu is following. Basically the article says that Ubuntu is following more or less the same steps that Microsoft and Apple did before. How is that? Well according to the author, because some (maybe a lot) of software for Ubuntu is being … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/switch-from-jekyll-to-pelican.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/switch-from-jekyll-to-pelican.html Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I am not switching to Pelican, at least not yet, Jekyll does everything I need (I wish it could support translations). But on the other hand, I love learning so I was experimenting with Pelican. To move from one to the other is really easy, just install Pelican in your computer, and move _posts file… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/git-ignorecase-rename-lowercase-uppercase.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/git-ignorecase-rename-lowercase-uppercase.html Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Today while working on my local working directory under Git, I renamed a file from uppercase to lower case. (I am on Mac OS X Lion) When I entered git status it told me: # On branch master nothing to commit (working directory clean) After googling a little I found that the option ignorecase was set … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/install-geoip-cpan-ubuntu.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/install-geoip-cpan-ubuntu.html Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 To install GeoIP perl library on Ubuntu Linux run this commands: sudo apt-get install libgeoip-dev build-essential then enter in the CPAN shell cpan Follow instructions there if it is the first time you are running CPAN run the next two commands, otherwise jump to the third make install install Bund… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-awstats-for-varnish-varnishncsa-logs-ubuntu-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-awstats-for-varnish-varnishncsa-logs-ubuntu-linux.html Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Varnish is getting quite popular these days. If you run Varnish in front of Apache and PHP you will unload Apache a lot, and will improve you server hundreds of times. But this have another effect, because now varnish is handling the load, Apache does not see the hits to your server, therefore it ca… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/git-revert-uncommitted-changes.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/git-revert-uncommitted-changes.html Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 One of the nice things about working with Git, is that you can go back to previous stages of your work easily, is like a time machine. The easiest way, is to revert changes to files and folders, and delete added files, when you have not committed yet. To revert uncommitted changes issue this two com… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/picture-gallery-category-jekyll-site.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/picture-gallery-category-jekyll-site.html Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Some days ago I have decided to add an extra section or category to this site. A I like photography (I am not a good photographer). And I do not want to maintain multiple sites for each interest I have. And because Jekyll is flexible enough to make with it almost anything you want, I have just added… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/rename-files-to-lower-case-linux-mac.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/rename-files-to-lower-case-linux-mac.html Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 This is a good one liner command, specially when dealing with lots of files that you want to change its names from upper-case to lower-case. for f in * ; do mv -v $f `echo $f | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`; done That will work on all files in the current folder, if you want more specific files use this form … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/resize-image-change-quality-imagemagick-linux-mac.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/resize-image-change-quality-imagemagick-linux-mac.html Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 Even though you can resize image in Mac OS X using Preview.app, I like to install imagemagick, which is the tool I use in Linux. To install it on a Mac sudo port install imagemagick On Ubuntu sudo apt-get install imagemagick Then to rezise pictures, and change quality at the same time, use this line… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/picture-photo-gallery-jekyll.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/picture-photo-gallery-jekyll.html Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I do not like to have my content on someone's else application, I mean I do not like my content hosted on Facebook, Tumblr, 500px or anybody else. I like my content with me, I like to have full control over it. That is why I have my own site, under my name, where I publish my online content. This si… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/using-rsync-with-jekyll.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/using-rsync-with-jekyll.html Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 I have two methods to upload my Jekyll site. Well that is not really true, I change the method some every two months, because I switch hosting from time to time, not because I am using a bad one, but because I like testing new hosting services. When I am using places like NearlyFreeSpeech or Linode … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/rsync-file-type-include-exclude.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/rsync-file-type-include-exclude.html Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you need to sync only certain type of files, and not all the files between two computers, you can take advantage of the include and exclude options of rsync to copy only those types of files Say you want to copy only php files from one server to another, you can use this command. rsync -av --incl… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/nearlyfreespeech-net-review.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/nearlyfreespeech-net-review.html Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I have been using NearlyFreeSpeech the Web hosting company where you pay only for what you use. They have a pretty interesting business model, where you deposit your money with them, and the charge against that deposit for your use of bandwidth and storage, if you do not use their services, you will… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/working-with-rst-restructuredtext.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/working-with-rst-restructuredtext.html Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I really do not like to store my daily work and documents in MS Word format, nor in OpenOffice format, because those formats: Uses a lot more space that what is really needed You need to have the application installed to read them It is not easy to work with them on mobile devices The format changes… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/restructuredtext-on-jekyll.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/restructuredtext-on-jekyll.html Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 ReStructuredText is a markup format to give format to documents. When as a child I started with WordStar and then WordPerfect I liked how you can control the final format with markup symbols. Therefore I think is better to manage your documents as plain text documents with some markup language, then… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/ubuntu-disable-daemon-boot-startup.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/ubuntu-disable-daemon-boot-startup.html Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you need to disable a daemon from automatically starting at boot on Ubuntu or Debian, you can run: sudo update-rc.d -f nginx disable In the case that is nginx which you want to stop from being started at boot time. For Apache that would be: sudo update-rc.d -f apache2 disable And so on. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/apache-htaccess-add-cache-control-header-file-type.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/apache-htaccess-add-cache-control-header-file-type.html Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 This tip is specially useful if you are serving a static file using Apache. I know a lot of you may say, why not use Nginx? And that is a valid question, but sometimes you may need .htacces file for other sites beside your static site right? In those cases Apache is your option. In the past I used t… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/dual-boot-two-linux-distributions-distros.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/dual-boot-two-linux-distributions-distros.html Sat, 29 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I am re-writing this how-to, as the original written back in 2007 still gets some visits. People come here looking how to install two Linux distributions on a PC and dual boot them. That is really easy, the added bonus on this post is that I will also show you, how to share the /home partition so th… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/legend-of-grimrock.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/legend-of-grimrock.html Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I am not the kind of guy who spend hours playing computer games. Actually because I am not a patience guy I usually do not play computer games. But because this and other games were on sale for just 7 dollars I have got 7 games with a worth value of 140 dollars, I decided to buy it. After playing th… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/how-to-install-htop-on-centos.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/how-to-install-htop-on-centos.html Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 htop together with vim are the first things I install in a new Linux installation. I usually do not use any RedHat or rpm distribution, but sometimes I have to deal with them, so when I am in front of a CentOS server the first thing I do is to install htop. This is the best way I have found to do it… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/wordpress-plugin-and-theme-install-without-ftp-credentials.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/wordpress-plugin-and-theme-install-without-ftp-credentials.html Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Sometimes with a new Wordpress installation, when you want to install a new theme or a plugin, you will find Wordpress asking for FTP credentials. In order to install directly the themes or plugins without the need to provide FTP user and password to Wordpress, edit the wp-config.php file and add th… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/what-version-of-centos-am-i-running.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/what-version-of-centos-am-i-running.html Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 When you are asked to deal with a server you have not installed, you need to know which version of Linux you are running on it. If the case is a CentOS server, you may need to know which version of CentOS you are running. First check out the version of Linux (Kernel you are running) uname -r You sho… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/mkdir-create-multiple-directories-in-one-command.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/mkdir-create-multiple-directories-in-one-command.html Thu, 27 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 When creating directories / folders under Linux, you will use mkdir command. If you want to create multiple directories in one shot, you can use this form of the command: mkdir -p /var/www/site/{public_html,logs} That is going to create this structure: /var/www/site/public_html and /var/www/site/log… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/wordpress-apache-ubuntu-mpm-worker-php-fpm.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/wordpress-apache-ubuntu-mpm-worker-php-fpm.html Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 This is the third (and last) post of the series where the first two are: [Apache MPM Worker and Prefork](/en/blog/apache2-mpm-worker-prefork-php.html) [Install Apache MPM Worker and PHP-FPM LAMP Stack on Ubuntu](/en/blog/ubuntu-lamp-apache2-mpm-worker-and-php-fpm.html) In this post I will show you h… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/apache2-mpm-worker-prefork-php.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/apache2-mpm-worker-prefork-php.html Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 From time to time I want to learn more about stability and high availability web servers. I usually get a sandbox site where I start to play with configurations. This time all started because I also like testing service providers, and this week I have been moving my site between Site44 and NearlyFre… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ubuntu-lamp-apache2-mpm-worker-and-php-fpm.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ubuntu-lamp-apache2-mpm-worker-and-php-fpm.html Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Spanish version In the previous post I have talked about Apache MPM worker and prefork mode Today in this post I will show you how to install and configure a LAMP stack under Ubuntu using Apache MPM Worker instead of Prefork. This is the list of what we are going to install Apache 2.2 MPM Worker PHP… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/manage-partitions-with-gparted-how-to.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/manage-partitions-with-gparted-how-to.html Tue, 25 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I like buying my Desktop computers in parts, with no OS pre-installed. There is a good reason for that, I want to install Linux. Which flavor? A lot of them. One important thing about this, is that I need to plan very well how I'm going to setup the partitions in my Hard Disk, and I usually use GPar… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/about-git.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/about-git.html Mon, 24 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Working with Git I have used Git in the past, but I was using it "automatically", I mean, I just followed the commands I learned I need to run to achieve some task. I was using it to version control this blog, and to deploy it to a Linode using git, with some post-commit scripts. You can google abou… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/rsync-exclude-files-folders.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/rsync-exclude-files-folders.html Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 rsync is a powerful command, I use it a lot to backup files, or to sync files between computers. But, there are times when you do not want to have an exact copy in the remote server from the files in the local server. If you want to exclude some files from syncing you can use --exclude option. Exclu… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/enable-mod-headers-apache-2.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/enable-mod-headers-apache-2.html Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I have done this on Ubuntu server but it should be same for other distributions. To enable mod headers on Apache2 (httpd) you need to run this command: sudo a2enmod headers Then restart Apache sudo service apache restart https://www.garron.me/en/bits/301-htaccess-redirect.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/301-htaccess-redirect.html Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I am moving some posts from an old site to a new one, and because now I am using Apache as my web server (for some time at least). I am using .htaccess file to redirect old url to new ones with a 301 (permanent) http code. Using Apache's .htaccess 301 redirect is one of the most efficient way to red… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/enable-mod-rewrite-apache2.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/enable-mod-rewrite-apache2.html Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I have done this on Ubuntu server but it should be same for other distributions. To enable mod headers on Apache2 (httpd) you need to run this command: sudo a2enmod rewrite Then restart Apache sudo service apache restart https://www.garron.me/en/bits/gzip-keep-original-file.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/gzip-keep-original-file.html Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 When you gzip files, the original file is deleted. If you have file.txt and gzip it with gzip file.txt you will now have file.txt.gz but the original file is not there anymore. To be able to gzip files and keep the original files untouched you can use this small script. #!/bin/bash for i in $@; do g… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/check-gzip-encoding-nginx-apache-with-curl-headers.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/check-gzip-encoding-nginx-apache-with-curl-headers.html Sun, 23 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you want to see if your Nginx or Apache server are sending you gzip content, and the appropriate headers, you can use curl curl -I -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate' http://www.garron.me/ You should see something like: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:31:42 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubu… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/how-flush-clear-varnish-cache.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/how-flush-clear-varnish-cache.html Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you are new to Varnish, here is what Wikipedia says about ti: Varnish is an HTTP accelerator designed for content-heavy dynamic web sites. In contrast to other HTTP accelerators, such as Squid, which began life as a client-side cache, or Apache, which is primarily an origin server, Varnish was de… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/how-much-swap-space-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/how-much-swap-space-linux.html Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 #####Your swap memory size##### I have installed Linux systems since 1998, it was Red Hat Linux in those days, mostly Debian and Arch now a days, but when you are installing you still have to decide how big your swap memory should be? What is swap memory? In Linux, and in other Operating systems is … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/secure-strong-password.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/secure-strong-password.html Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 #####On Secure Passwords##### A lot of words have been written about how to create secure passwords, and how to store them (or not to store them at all). And still, people choose weak passwords all the time, a lot of them even choose weak security questions. So, I think some more can be yet written … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ubuntu-at-home.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ubuntu-at-home.html Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Here is a story about how Ubuntu could replace Windows as the main operating system on a non-tech-savvy user's laptop. I think Linux, though perhaps lacking some essential software for business use is ready for every home. How my wife switched completely to Ubuntu It's been years since I've used Win… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/foundation-3-framework-jekyll.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/foundation-3-framework-jekyll.html Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 New theme and template on my site I am sure I am not the only one who from time to time decide to change the layout, theme and/or template of his site or blog. Yesterday I started watching at html5 Boilerplate, but finally I decided to go with Foundation. They have a very nice responsive grid made w… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/at-the-end-of-the-day.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/at-the-end-of-the-day.html Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 We try so hard during our life to be successful, we start preparing for a competition since we are just four years old. We study, learn things that will prepare us for the fierce competition of life. We learn (seeing others) that the most important things of life are material things, we read a lot t… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/welcome-back-arch-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/welcome-back-arch-linux.html Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Arch Linux is my favorite Linux distribution, I love Debian, for all what it means to the Linux community, I like Ubuntu for how easy it is, and how suitable for mums, kids, and grandpas. I like the venerable Slackware still in the market, with its famous stability and security. But Arch Linux is st… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/os-prober-update-grub-arch-linux-debian-ubuntu.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/os-prober-update-grub-arch-linux-debian-ubuntu.html Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 How did I install Arch Linux as secondary Linux on a Dual boot PC First, let me say that this is not a full how to, I think there is no need to go screenshot after screenshot of Debian and Ubuntu installation. I do not see any good reason to reproduce all the Arch installation instructions. Well, wh… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/illimani-aerial-view.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/illimani-aerial-view.html Tue, 11 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 This photo was taken while departing from La Paz, Bolivia. Directly from the plane window The mountain is the Illimani, which can be seen from La Paz city. https://www.garron.me/en/blog/bbm-7-voice-over-wifi-blackberry.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/bbm-7-voice-over-wifi-blackberry.html Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 RIM released an update to its BBM software, BBM 7.0 has been released with a new good feature. Voice over WiFi networks, you can now chat with voice with your BBM contacts when both are connected to WiFi networks. Both iOS and Android already had this option long time ago. Now Blackberry users can a… https://www.garron.me/en/food/broasted-chicken.html https://www.garron.me/en/food/broasted-chicken.html Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Kentucky Style Fried Chicken Kids loves Kentucky style fried chicken or broasted chicken. I prepared this chicken legs using a simple recipe. Ingredients 8 Chicken legs 1 Cup of wheat flour 3/4 liters of milk Salt and pepper Put the chicken legs in the milk for 2 hours, then in a bowl put the flour … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/garden-frogs.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/garden-frogs.html Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Decorative garden frogs and mushrooms over white stones in a small garden https://www.garron.me/en/blog/gmail-2-0-ios.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/gmail-2-0-ios.html Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Gmail 2.0 for iOS It has been three days using the new Gmail 2.0 on the iPad and iPod Touch. The App have improved a lot, the colors the UI, it feels now easier and more intuitive. The way to reply or reply all is more direct now, and easier to find out how. The features I like the most are: Multipl… https://www.garron.me/en/food/meat-beef-tacos-corn-beans-avocado-salad.html https://www.garron.me/en/food/meat-beef-tacos-corn-beans-avocado-salad.html Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Meat Tacos I have prepared this two weeks ago, beef meat for tacos, and beans, corn and avocado salad. Meat for tacos Ingredients 800 grams of ground beef 1 big onion 2 garlic cloves 2 ripe tomatoes (big ones) 2 Cups of water 1/4 cup of wine (optional) Salt Prepare the tomatoes, by having them in bo… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/why-you-should-not-use-feedburner.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/why-you-should-not-use-feedburner.html Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Years ago, this Feedburner fever appeared, all blogs wanted to have the readers counter. Some time ago, some bloggers realized that Feedburner was indeed hijacking their links. Take Ostatic.com as an example. Real link: http://ostatic.com/blog/gnome-legacy-mode-begins-to-take-shape Feedburner link: … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/google-plus-communities.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/google-plus-communities.html Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Google Plus Communities Yesterday Google rolled out a new feature. Communities You can now create communities, they can be private of public. You can add moderators to your communities, and I'm sure a lot of new features are ready to pop up. In my opinion Communities is going to give G+ a new impuls… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/blogging-from-ipod-markdown.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/blogging-from-ipod-markdown.html Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I may be crazy, but I like to try things just because I can. Today I have decided to test how could it be to create content (writing to this blog specifically) on the iPod Touch. Writing on that small screen for a long time, could hurt really badly. But if you have a Mac bluetooth keyboard, then you… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/install-jekyll-on-ubuntu.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/install-jekyll-on-ubuntu.html Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 This one is easy just two commands, and Jekyll will be installed on Ubuntu, and you are ready to blog like a hacker. sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev That will install ruby 1.9.1 sudo gem install jekyll That one will install jekyll and all its dependencies. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/find-replace-sed-bash-ubuntu-linux-mac.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/find-replace-sed-bash-ubuntu-linux-mac.html Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Bash on Linux or Mac OS X, is full of tools, and you can perform a lot of repetitive tasks with a single line. One that I like a lot, is to change a string in a lot of files at the same time, with just one line of code. You will need find and sed. find /home/user/ -type f -exec sed -i 's/old-string/… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/install-middleman-ubuntu.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/install-middleman-ubuntu.html Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 To install Middleman in Ubuntu, with blogging extension enabled run: sudo apt-get install ruby-dev sudo gem install middleman sudo apt-get install nodejs sudo gem install middleman-blog Once there, you can continue here https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ipad-vs-chromebook.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ipad-vs-chromebook.html Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I have to start this saying that I do not have a ChromeBook. But I do have a good idea of it, as I have a Laptop. I would like to compare the benefits of owning a ChromeBook vs a tablet (Android or iPad). For the last month, I have been using a borrowed iPad, (Wi-Fi) model with an Apple bluetooth-ke… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-ubuntu-from-hard-disk.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-ubuntu-from-hard-disk.html Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I am running Debian on this Desktop computer, but I wanted to install Ubuntu with it. There is plenty of disk anyway. Start downloading Ubuntu and save it on your disk. Install grml-rescueboot, with my Debian was: apt-get install grml-rescueboot Then as root, copy the ISO image to /boot/grml/ cp ~/i… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/running-again.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/running-again.html Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 It had been a long and hot Sunday afternoon, after having fun with the kids, and working on some side projects, I headed to a park near my househome. It was the seventh hour after noon, and the sky was still clear, the sun was not visible, and the birds were flying to their nests making a lot of noi… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/switching-to-markdown-no-word-processors-anymore.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/switching-to-markdown-no-word-processors-anymore.html Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 For some strange reason, I do not like to do things in the conventional way. I like to find new, and (not always) better ways to do something. One of those things I like to change, is the way to edit and write documents. I mean, I do not want to use Microsoft Word, as everybody does. In fact I do no… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/blogging-from-ipad-jekyll-dropbox.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/blogging-from-ipad-jekyll-dropbox.html Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 More than a year ago, I have switched my two blogs from Drupal and Wordpress to Jekyll. There are some tools for blogging from the iPad for Drupal, and more and better ones for Wordpress. What to do if you are using Jekyll to generate static copies of your blog? What I am doing is writing my posts o… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/cookie-less-domain-site44.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/cookie-less-domain-site44.html Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 From time to time, I try to improve the performance of the site. I still do not know why, but it just happens, something start to itch me, and I need to improve things that are already working. Today, I wanted to find a way to have the cookieless domain for my assets. Some tries I first tried to ser… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/uberwriter-review.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/uberwriter-review.html Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I know I am not good at writing, but for some reason I like to write. I also like a lot to look for new tools to have things done. - I should have been a coder/writer - I am now testing uberwriter, which is according to its own developer some kind of port of iA Writer for Linux. It only works on Ubu… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/gnu-screen-how-to-and-uses.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/gnu-screen-how-to-and-uses.html Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 A lot have been written about gnu-screen, but I think I can still write a little about it. It is a well know tool among old Linux guys, but it is almost unknown among newcomers. What is gnu-screen, and what it does for you? gnu-screen, is a tool from the gnu project, that is available in every Linux… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/linode-review.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/linode-review.html Sat, 01 Dec 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Looking for the place to host your project When you start a project, which in the past used to be just a blog, maybe hosted with MovableType. Now it range from blogs, to complete Apps. No matter if you are working with PHP, Ruby, Python or anything else. The first thing you need to solve when you go… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/install-google-chrome-ubuntu.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/install-google-chrome-ubuntu.html Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Everyday installing things on Ubuntu are easier and easier. If you want to install Google Chrome on Ubuntu, just go to the Chrome download page and pick the copy for Ubuntu. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/install-nvidia-drivers-ubuntu-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/install-nvidia-drivers-ubuntu-linux.html Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Today I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my PC, where I was using Debian (Well I'm still using it). Ubuntu did not manage my Nvidia card. It seems the nouveau drivers does not work well with some Nvidia cards. To solve the issue just install Nvidia drivers: sudo apt-get install nvidia-current Then run… https://www.garron.me/en/mac/ia-writer-review-markdown-editor.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/ia-writer-review-markdown-editor.html Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 You may know that this site is written 100% using Markdown. I usually use vim to write the articles of this site. That is when I'm on my Linux, when I'm working on my Mac, it is a different story. I use MultiMarkdown Composer or iA Writer. Lets talk about iA Writer, which is the one I'm reviewing ri… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/create-users-adduser-command-ubuntu-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/create-users-adduser-command-ubuntu-linux.html Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 This is a command all Linux administrators should know, because they are the people in charge of creating users accounts, this will be one of three different posts about managing users. useradd, creates a new user or update default new user information. Syntax: useradd [options] LOGIN Some of its op… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/the-equilibrium.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/the-equilibrium.html Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I am an avid reader of a lot of blogs, I still use RSS (some prefer twitter these days) to follow them. Well, some days ago, I found a reference to an article titled The best. I did not payed to much attention to it the first time, it just appeared like a nice blog post and just that. Some days late… https://www.garron.me/en/mac/itunes-11-first-impressions.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/itunes-11-first-impressions.html Thu, 29 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Today Apple have released iTunes 11. I have just downloaded it, and I'm starting to review its new features. The first impression I have about it, is that it is cleaner than the previous version. It is more focussed on what you are really doing. The left pane has disappeared by default, and that giv… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/apt-mark-set-auto-manual-installation.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/apt-mark-set-auto-manual-installation.html Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Today while installing VirtualBox in my Debian Linux (I want to install Ubuntu on my Debian). Accidentaly I have "re-installed" a package that was already part of the VitualBox combo. So that changed the flag from manual to auto installed in that package. This is what I have done: apt-get install vi… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/contribute-to-floss-with-money.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/contribute-to-floss-with-money.html Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Today while reading my daily dose of Internet articles I arrived to this post of my friend Raphael. We managed to fund the translation and the liberation of the book with the initial campaign but now we must ensure that sales of printed copies and donations cover for the time we’re going to spend in… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/shutter-screenshot-ubuntu-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/shutter-screenshot-ubuntu-linux.html Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 When you write PC tutorials, being these for Linux, Mac or Windows, well the same applies now for Android or iPhones, you need screenshots If you are working with Linux imagemagick is a great option, but that is the geeky way ;). I can see that Linux is now becoming more and more user friendly. And … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/could-not-be-synced-because-the-sync-session-failed-to-start.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/could-not-be-synced-because-the-sync-session-failed-to-start.html Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Today I had this issue, while trying to sync my iPad with iTunes I got: could not be synced because the sync session failed to start The quick and easy solution: Just quit and enter iTunes again. In other words, restart iTunes https://www.garron.me/en/blog/nature-photos-macro.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/nature-photos-macro.html Sat, 24 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Pictures taken on a small garden, right after a heavy rain https://www.garron.me/en/bits/delete-erase-all-files-given-type-recursively-linux-mac-os-x.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/delete-erase-all-files-given-type-recursively-linux-mac-os-x.html Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Yesterday, when I posted this post. Andres asked me, how to do the same thing but only for *.doc files. I have tested, what I thought it could be, and this is the way. find /tmp/ -name "*.doc" -type f -delete https://www.garron.me/en/linux/ubuntu-fails-to-find-closest-mirror.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/ubuntu-fails-to-find-closest-mirror.html Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal (server edition). While installing it, it asked me about my location I'm in Bolivia, so the mirror chosen for me was bo.archive.ubuntu.com which is actually an alias of a server in Brasil. nslookup bo.archive.ubuntu.com The output was: Server: 8.8.8.8 Ad… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-wordpress-ubuntu-server-quantal-quetzal.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-wordpress-ubuntu-server-quantal-quetzal.html Thu, 22 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 16.7% of Alexa Internet's "top 1 million" websites and as of August 2011 manages 22% … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/empty-folder-structure-delete-files-not-directories.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/empty-folder-structure-delete-files-not-directories.html Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you have a complex folder structure with lots of files in each level of folders. Something like this: /home/usr/ | |-----/folder1/ | |-----/folder2/ | | | |----file1 | |----file2 | |-----/folder3/ | |----file3 |----file4 |----/folder4/ | |-----file5 |-----file6 Well you've got the idea. If you wa… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ipod-touch-iphone-5-keyboard-feel.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ipod-touch-iphone-5-keyboard-feel.html Wed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I've just got my iPod touch fifth generation or iPod Touch 5. The first thing I wanted to test was how good the keyboard in landscape mode could be. I can tell you that there is plenty of space, and miss-types are rare, if they ever exists. I thing it has nothing to envy the Samsung Galaxy S3 keyboa… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/how-to-install-deb-file.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/how-to-install-deb-file.html Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I'm back to Debian. Arch Linux is still my favorite distribution, but I'm using Debian for the last months. Today I want to share something for the newbies. How to install a Debian package (.deb file) dpkg -i file.deb That is it, now if you want to un-install it later. dpkg -r [package name] That wa… https://www.garron.me/en/food/egg-chorizo-tortilla-paleo-diet.html https://www.garron.me/en/food/egg-chorizo-tortilla-paleo-diet.html Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Today I wanted to have some chicken wings for dinner, but I could not find my favorites. So I decided to buy none. Then trying to think about what to have for dinner, I though it would be better to cook my dinner by myself instead of buying some burger out there. So I basically prepared a tortilla w… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/on-the-future-of-markdown.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/on-the-future-of-markdown.html Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 On October 25th Jeff Atwood wrote The future of Markdown. He was calling to major sites like: Github Stack Exchange Reddit others To join together and start a standard for Markdown. In that way he propose to stop the spread of different flavors that appeared in the last times. As he points out, GitH… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/netflix-for-linux-wine.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/netflix-for-linux-wine.html Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 These days the Internet (at least sites devoted to Linux or technology) have been talking about Netflix being able to run on Linux. Some examples are: Slashdot Hacker News Reddit If you are looking for the instructions, you can find them at: iheardubuntu OMGUbuntu These are great news indeed, I have… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/dustin-curtis-the-best.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/dustin-curtis-the-best.html Sun, 18 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I have read a lot of reactions about this post from Dustin Curtis about how it is great to invest your time in looking for the best about something. If you want to buy a TV set, spend time in studying the options the market have, and only buy the very best your budget can afford. … the time it takes… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/bloated-chrome-browser.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/bloated-chrome-browser.html Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Is Chrome following the steps of Firefox? It seems like Google is adding stuff to Chrome just to add it. It’s as if they feel like they can’t do nothing feature-wise, so they come up with junk to shove in there, slowing Chrome down in the process. Maybe the solution is to have to versions of Chrome?… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/first-month-site44-review.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/first-month-site44-review.html Sat, 17 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 On October 16th I moved my sites from Linode to Site44. More or less a year ago I've moved them from CMS like Drupal or Wordpress to static generated sites, with the help of Jekyll I was running a Linode just to host static sites with Nginx. It worked great but, it was like using a shotgun to kill a… https://www.garron.me/en/tech/find-big-emails-gmail-size-operator-search.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/find-big-emails-gmail-size-operator-search.html Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Few days ago Gmail added a much awaited feature. Search email by size, this is very handy, to locate those emails with big attachments that are filling your inbox. Because, even though Gmail says you have unlimited space for your emails, and you do not need to erase a single one. That is not true, a… https://www.garron.me/en/tech/how-to-take-screenshot-android-galaxy-ace.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/how-to-take-screenshot-android-galaxy-ace.html Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Some days ago, while trying to answer a call I accidentally took a screenshot with my Galaxy Ace instead of answering the call. I do not know if this works for all Android phones, but it works with my Samsung Galaxy Ace I'm running Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread. To take the screenshot just hold on the b… https://www.garron.me/en/mac/google-to-release-maps-app-for-ios.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/google-to-release-maps-app-for-ios.html Fri, 16 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Apple Maps are improving, but they still suck. I have read a lot of complains about them from users in U.S. and Europe. Imagine us in Latin America. I live in Bolivia, and all my neighbor does not exist for Apple Maps. Here a comparison of Google Maps vs Apple Maps of the same area. This is Google M… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/no-need-be-a-fanboy.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/no-need-be-a-fanboy.html Thu, 15 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Today while reading my rss I have read a post from Daring Fireball Best Dell Ad Ever. Everything seems OK with the post until you read: The device in question does not actually look much at all like a MacBook Air or an iPad. It looks like a broken chair. I really respect John Gruber, specially becau… https://www.garron.me/en/food/chicken-salad-recipe.html https://www.garron.me/en/food/chicken-salad-recipe.html Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 This weekend was really hot here in Bolivia (we are entering the summer), so I wanted to have a fresh lunch. I have decided to go with a chicken salad. The ingredients are: Shredded chicken breast Cut off the cob corn Lime juice Noodles Mayonnaise Mustard Olive oil Salt Thyme The chicken was just bo… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/my-iftop-configuration-file.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/my-iftop-configuration-file.html Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I use iftop a lot, with both my Linux and Mac computers. I always want to know who is using my bandwidth, specially when working on tethered 3G connections. From the man page of iftop: iftop listens to network traffic on a named interface, or on the first interface it can find which looks like an ex… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/venice-italy-flood.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/venice-italy-flood.html Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Six days ago in November the first, my mother took these pictures in Venice Italy. There was this flood, and locals were saying it was the worst of the present year. Here some pictures of Venice flood https://www.garron.me/en/mac/resize-images-mac-iphoto-preview.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/resize-images-mac-iphoto-preview.html Thu, 08 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you want to resize your iPhoto pictures to send them by email, or to use them in some website you own. You can do it easily without the need to download anything. Your Mac already has all the needed tools. What you first need to do is to copy the photos outside iPhoto, you can drag n drop to any … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/msn-to-be-replaced-by-skype.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/msn-to-be-replaced-by-skype.html Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Like most of you, I have started with ICQ and then I moved to Windows messenger (now live messenger). Some time ago, I stopped using Live Messenger, and now for business I use Skype, and I love to use Google chat with my friends. I prefer Google chat, because all history is integrated in my Gmail ac… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/foursquare-add-score-to-locations.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/foursquare-add-score-to-locations.html Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 There was a time when I was an avid user of Foursquare, using it on my Blackberry and then on my Android phone. Now, I only keep my iPod Touch app installed, and do not use is that much. I have found it useful when looking for places to have a dinner while visiting another cities. But more than that… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/arch-linux-switched-systemd-end-support-initscripts.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/arch-linux-switched-systemd-end-support-initscripts.html Sun, 04 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000 It's been some four months since I'm not using my favorite Distro (Arch Linux), I'm now using Debian. All started because I've made some changes to my Arch Linux computer, and it stopped working, I needed something to work, and because the installation process of Arch Linux is not that easy or at le… https://www.garron.me/en/tech/internal-memory-a-feature-to-look-at-when-choosing-android-phones.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/internal-memory-a-feature-to-look-at-when-choosing-android-phones.html Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Yesterday I was looking for some low-end Android phones for a friend of mine. While looking at Galaxy ACE 2 and Galaxy ACE Plus, I realized the differences are not that big, also the prices delta is really small. So, where to look to decide? I asked the vendor what were the differences? He told me t… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/redirect-naked-domain-to-www-with-301-free.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/redirect-naked-domain-to-www-with-301-free.html Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 As I'm moving all my sites from my own server on Linode to site44, I do not have Nginx or Apache for 301 redirects. If you are doing something like this or if you are using Amazon S3 as your hosting service, then, you may need to redirect your naked domain (example.com) to the www version (www.examp… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/hosting-static-site-with-dropbox-on-site44.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/hosting-static-site-with-dropbox-on-site44.html Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I'm using Jekyll to blog for one and half years already. I have been using Linode to host my sites for years, and thanks to this gift the last three months for free. Anyway lately I'm more and more busy and I would like to stop taking care of my own servers, and because I'm using Jekyll and have a s… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ipod-touch-as-my-tablet.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ipod-touch-as-my-tablet.html Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Somehow, I am not ready yet to start using a device that can not fit in my pocket, as my "mobile" computing device. A tablet (any of them) are still something I think I will leave abandoned at any coffee table. Because it does not fit in my pocket, I think I will leave it behind. And because I love … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/body-building-hobby-and-diet-for-busy-people.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/body-building-hobby-and-diet-for-busy-people.html Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction I'm 38 years old right now, and I've started exercising at 34. As a full-time engineer (and father) I do not have the time to be 3 to 4 hours at the gym. So, those routines that includes cardio and weight lifting are out of my possibilities. That does not mean I can not train and improv… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/upgrade-debian-squeeze-wheezy-6.0-7.0.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/upgrade-debian-squeeze-wheezy-6.0-7.0.html Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Spanish version I've a fresh Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) installation, and have decided to upgrade it to Wheezy (Debian 7.0). First you need to know that even though in previous versions aptitude has been recommended, in this version apt-get is the recommended command to work with. You can read (and it is … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/debian-development-tools-make-gcc-instalation.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/debian-development-tools-make-gcc-instalation.html Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you need to develop under Debian, or if you are trying to compile software and you get this error: sh: 1: make: not found You need to install the Debian development tools, to do that just run this command: apt-get install build-essential This will include make, gcc-compiler and others you will ne… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/new-hotmail-UI-interface-outlook-new-domain.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/new-hotmail-UI-interface-outlook-new-domain.html Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000 This may be old news, but I've just discovered that Hotmail.com has a whole new interface. I have been not using my hotmail.com account for years, due to the spam. I've my hotmail.com account since 2006 I think. The new interface makes it a lot easier to use, either on the computer, tabled or phone,… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/ruby-juicer-combine-merge-minify-css-files.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/ruby-juicer-combine-merge-minify-css-files.html Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Minifying css and javascript is a good practice, too often it is over-valued, but a good practice anyway. Why over-valued? Because it is a lot better to enable gzip for your css and js files than minifying them, but do both if you can. On the other hand, combining css and js files is really a good p… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/how-to-md5sum-mac-os-x.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/how-to-md5sum-mac-os-x.html Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 A good way to verify if a transferred file has not lose a bit or two in its path from one PC to another, is to use MD5 hash. What you do, is calculate the digital signature of the file on both sides, then compare the output. If they are the same, you are OK, if not, you need to transfer the file aga… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/vim-undo-redo.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/vim-undo-redo.html Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Vim is a great text editor, some love it, some hate it, it is one of the two most used text editors in Linux, the other one is Emacs. Vim is usually already installed on your system, I use it on Linux and on my Mac too. It does not have a menu, and works with commands and key-bindings, when you make… https://www.garron.me/en/mac/schedule-mac-os-x-sleep-wake-up-power-off.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/schedule-mac-os-x-sleep-wake-up-power-off.html Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you need your Mac to turn on or off, or to wake up or sleep at given times, every day, or every week or weekend day, you can schedule that process. Computers are great for repetitive tasks, so, if you want to download that backup file from the server, every Friday at night, you can easily do it w… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/check-physical-status-ethernet-port-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/check-physical-status-ethernet-port-linux.html Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 It is usually not a problem to check the physical status of an ethernet port in any computer. You just need to see the led in the ethernet card itself, or check the led in the switch where the other side of the utp cable is connected. But, what happens when you are trying to check the status of an e… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/my-blog-turns-one.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/my-blog-turns-one.html Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Two days ago my blog (This one) turned one year old. It is been 365 days blogging at this site, I've stopped writing at Go2Linux, which I've moved to a sub-domain under this domain, also the same with my Posterous blog, which is now also a static site under this domain. Meanwhile this site has been … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/host-static-site-cloud-files-rackspace-akamai-cdn.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/host-static-site-cloud-files-rackspace-akamai-cdn.html Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 The vast majority of sites on the web now a days are dynamically generated, even when most of them can be static. This is done because that way is easy to create a site. Using a CMS. But, if your site is 100% static, and you do not need to create your site on the fly, dynamically, you can get the ad… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/blackberry-better-iphone-android-wifi-3g-automatic-switch.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/blackberry-better-iphone-android-wifi-3g-automatic-switch.html Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 There are a lot of points where the Blackberry is still a lot better than an iPhone or an Android phone, but I'm only going to write about one of them now. Internet connectivity When I mean Internet connectivity, I mean how the phone automatically detects if it should use 3G or WiFi, and the three o… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/deploy-host-jekyll-static-site-free-heroku.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/deploy-host-jekyll-static-site-free-heroku.html Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 With the costs of storage and bandwidth now a days, it is incredible easy to find a place to host your static site. So, if you are using Jekyll, Hyde, nanoc, Pelican, or any similar tool to generate your site from textile or markdown documents, you can be sure you have a myriad of places to host you… https://www.garron.me/en/tech/host-your-site-from-dropbox-site44-review.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/host-your-site-from-dropbox-site44-review.html Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I'm always looking and experimenting with new technology. Today while reading hacker news, I step on site44, which is an app that lets you publish your static site to the public, right from your Dropbox account. These are the simple steps to have a site up and running and no time. Authorize site44.c… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/pearl-pie-search-replace-substitute-text-all-files-terminal.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/pearl-pie-search-replace-substitute-text-all-files-terminal.html Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you need to change a string by another in a text file, and you have a Mac or Linux powered PC with you, that is really an easy task with vim search and replace. But what if you need to search and replace that text string in a bunch of files? Perl will rescue you this time, do not be afraid, this … https://www.garron.me/en/linux/nmap-port-scan-graph-gui.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/nmap-port-scan-graph-gui.html Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Note: This is a repost of an old post I've made in 2008. nmap is a wonderful tool specially for debugging, there are lots of times when you need to know if a port is open in a server, or maybe blocked by a firewall, or just to test your iptables rules. Here we will learn how to use it at the command… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/wget-download-list-url-file.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/wget-download-list-url-file.html Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000 As I was using my Mac, I tried to download some files that I had as a list of urls in a file. Of course I tried to do it using curl which is available in Mac OS X, but I found out that the real tool to do that is wget You can install wget using MacPorts, or if you are using Linux you may already hav… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/with-or-without-you-lyrics.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/with-or-without-you-lyrics.html Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 See the stone set in your eyes See the thorn twist in your side I wait for you Sleight of hand and twist of fate On a bed of nails she makes me wait And I wait without you With or without you With or without you Through the storm we reach the shore You give it all but I want more And I'm waiting for… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/create-database-user-set-grant-privileges-mysql-console-terminal.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/create-database-user-set-grant-privileges-mysql-console-terminal.html Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Every time working on a new installation of Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla (not too often I must say), I have to look for the way to create de Database and the new user. There is a simple way to create the MySQL database and the user and grant privileges to that user over the newly created Database. Al… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/amazon-cloudfront-origin-pull-custom.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/amazon-cloudfront-origin-pull-custom.html Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 In order to improve SEO of your site, it should be fast. Google and Yahoo recommends you to improve your site speed as much as possible. One way to improve the speed of the site, is by using a CDN, normally CDNs were for static assets, and not for the whole site, which normally is Dynamic. Now with … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/safari-open-link-new-tab-default.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/safari-open-link-new-tab-default.html Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I like to browse the web using Safari while working in my Mac, but there is something I do not like about it. I do not like when I click in a link, it to open in a new window. I want it to open in a new tab. Fortunately, there is a way to change this Safari's default behaviour. Make Safari, open lin… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/recover-mysql-password.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/recover-mysql-password.html Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Do not worry if you lost your MySQL root password. If you have access to the server where it is running, and assuming it is a Linux or Mac or BSD server, you can easily recover the MySQL root password. Here are the steps to recover the root password. You need to run this commands as root or using su… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/you-dont-have-permission-to-access-requested-directory.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/you-dont-have-permission-to-access-requested-directory.html Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I usually get this error when creating a new virtual site on Apache: "You don't have permission to access the requested directory" That usually is because of Deny from all or the no existence of the Allow from all directive in the folder I'm working on. Suppose you have this <VirtualHost> configurat… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/cleaning-seasoning-cast-iron-pan-skillet.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/cleaning-seasoning-cast-iron-pan-skillet.html Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Most of you do not know this about me. I like to cook, I'm not really a good cooker, but I like to cook. Today I've bought a new Lodge Pre-Seasoned cast-iron skillet or pan, it is a small one, 8" or 20.32 cm. I like that size. My family is not big so I do not cook for too much people. Even though it… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/low-carb-diet.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/low-carb-diet.html Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Disclaimer: I'm not a professional on human nutrition, nor a medic or anything related. What I'm writing here, is what I've learned reading, and experimenting on my own body. You should go visit your doctor before attempting any diet ####Low Carb diets #### Definition A low-carb diet is a dietary pr… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/find-process-id-pid-program.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/find-process-id-pid-program.html Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 There are times when you need to know the PID (process ID) of a given program, this is usefull specially when you want to kill a program, or daemon. We'll use ps, pidof and pgrep to accompish this task. ps ps is the one I use the most, here is how: ps auxw | grep nginx The output could be something … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/stop-pause-iphoto-icloud-photstream-sync.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/stop-pause-iphoto-icloud-photstream-sync.html Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Have it ever happen to you? You just imported some files to iPhoto, and iCloud Photostream start to sync. You then realize you are on 3G data, and do not want your Mac and iPhoto's PhotoStream to eat all your available bandwidth. Well, here is a way to stop PhotoStream uploading the pictures, until … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/gadgets-carry-travel.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/gadgets-carry-travel.html Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 My job requires me to travel a lot, I actually do not like nor enjoy traveling, it is just part of my job. Today while I was boarding the plane, the flight attendant asked me to send my second bag to the luggage compartment. I was already carrying a backpack with my electronic devices. He thought my… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/some-la-paz-bolivia-pictures-night.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/some-la-paz-bolivia-pictures-night.html Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I've always liked pictures, I like pictures taken at night, and I like cities look like at night. So, here are some pictures I've taken some time ago. https://www.garron.me/en/blog/black-cat-puppy-picture.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/black-cat-puppy-picture.html Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I usually prefer dogs over cats. But there is no doubt. Cats looks better than dogs. Here a tiny black cat picture I found on imgur. Do not know who is the author, but a great cat picture. https://www.garron.me/en/blog/serve-static-files-cookie-less-domain-google-analytics.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/serve-static-files-cookie-less-domain-google-analytics.html Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 When I was a child, I used to spent hours on Saturday's afternoons with my dad. He was usually working at this Ford pickup's motor. He always wanted it to work as a swiss clock, no strange noises at all. He usually worked cleaning the carburetor. He cleaned it, made adjustments, then turn the engine… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/wordpress-static-site-generator.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/wordpress-static-site-generator.html Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I'm obsessed with site performance and I'm usually experimenting different ways to achieve the best possible performance. This blog is by now powered by Jekyll, a ruby based static site generator. If you want the same thing without the hassle of working with Jekyll, and feel better working with Word… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/configure-proxy-wget.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/configure-proxy-wget.html Thu, 31 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 The use of a proxy server is beneficial, specially when downloading big files. If the user base behind the proxy is big, and have common interests, there is a good chance that the file you want somebody else have already downloaded. This is the case in Universities, and Linux images. If you are goin… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/curl-delete-request.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/curl-delete-request.html Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Send a DELETE request to a web page is an easy task using curl. Using this command from the terminal of your Linux or Mac curl -X "DELETE" http://www.url.com/page Will make curl to send a DELETE request to the url listed in the command. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/mac-linux-terminal-http-headers-curl.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/mac-linux-terminal-http-headers-curl.html Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 When you are a sysadmin or web developer, you need to know the http headers your app or webpage is sending to the browser. Doing that with browser using Chrome or Firefox plugins is easy. Anyway I always prefer to use the command terminal, no matter if I'm working on my Linux or Mac OS X powered lap… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/turn-off-mac-terminal-remotely-ssh.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/turn-off-mac-terminal-remotely-ssh.html Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 To shut down a Mac server remotely, you first need to connect to that server, you can use ssh to do that. Once you are connected turn off your Mac remotely is easy. Enter this command. sudo -h shutdown now That is it, your Mac server should be turning off now. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/enable-grammar-checker-textedit-mac-os-x.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/enable-grammar-checker-textedit-mac-os-x.html Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Because English is not my native tongue, my grammar is as good as I would like it to be. While nothing is going to replace (at least for now) the human brain when checking grammar, some tools may help. I've learned that TextEdit (the default text editor in Mac OS X) comes with grammar checker. While… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/mac-os-x-apache-start-stop-restart.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/mac-os-x-apache-start-stop-restart.html Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 When you need to start, stop or restart the Apache (httpd) service on Mac OS X. And you are connected via ssh or telnet to the console terminal of the server, you can still control Apache (httpd) daemon. To start httpd: sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl start To stop httpd: sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl stop To r… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/http-post-with-curl.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/http-post-with-curl.html Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I needed to perform a post request with curl from the Mac command line. Here is how I did it: curl -d "post data" http://example.com/file You can send a complete file using the @ symbol. curld --data @file-to-send http://example.com/file Use, --data-urlencode to send url enconded data. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/solved-pg-gem-arch-linux-libpq-fe-h.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/solved-pg-gem-arch-linux-libpq-fe-h.html Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Trying to install some gem apps today. I run into this issue on my Arch Linux server. the pg gem was needed and failed to install with this message: Installing pg (0.13.2) with native extensions Gem::Installer::ExtensionBuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. /usr/bin/ruby extconf.r… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/realpath-find-real-path-folder-of-file.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/realpath-find-real-path-folder-of-file.html Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you need to find the real path of a file or folder under Linux, you can use realpath. You can use it with folders: realpath ~/ Will output /home/guillermo And something like this: realpath /usr/bin/../../tmp/../ will output / And you can point to a file: Let's consider this: ln -s /usr/bin/vim ~/… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/changing-my-blog-theme-again.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/changing-my-blog-theme-again.html Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I think I have a problem. I'm always trying to find better ways of doing something. Usually is just a waste of time, and I maybe just use my time in other things. This time I've spent some eight hours to switch the theme of this site, which is powered by Jekyll. Yes, once again I'm changing the them… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/sass-minify-command-line.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/sass-minify-command-line.html Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Note to self: When ever I need to minify the output of my scss file, I need to use sass command line, with --style compressed option something like this: sass input.scss:output.css --style compressed https://www.garron.me/en/linux/visudo-command-sudoers-file-sudo-default-editor.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/visudo-command-sudoers-file-sudo-default-editor.html Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 The sudoers file located at: /etc/sudoers, contains the rules that users must follow when using the sudo command. If you have ever used used Ubuntu, you know that the root account is disabled. This is because the root password is not set in Ubuntu, you can assign one and use it as with every other L… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/socl-microsoft-social-network.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/socl-microsoft-social-network.html Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Yesterday Microsoft released to the public "an experiment" socl. It was first run as a closed experiment, and since yesterday it is open to public. You need a FB or Windows Live ID account to sign up. As soon as you sign up you need to accept the TOS, just like in any other services. But, two paragr… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/specify-editor-crontab-file.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/specify-editor-crontab-file.html Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you want to specify an editor, when opening crontab file. And not just use the default for your system. You need to use VISUAL environment variable. Export the value of VISUAL and then run crontab -e command. Specify nano as the editor for crontab file export VISUAL=nano; crontab -e Specify vim a… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/convert-odt-file-open-office-to-text.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/convert-odt-file-open-office-to-text.html Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you ever need to work with an Open Office or Libre Office document, those with odt file extension. And you need to work with them on the console, you can just convert them to plain text file. Use the odt2txt tool to do it. odt2txt odt-file.odt > plain-text-file.txt You should be able to install o… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/kiss-simplicity-arch-linux-review.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/kiss-simplicity-arch-linux-review.html Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 ####Introduction #### Arch Linux History Arch Linux saw the light with Arch Linux 0.1 on March 11, 2002 from the hand of Judd Vinet. Vinet's inspiration came from Slackware and CRUX, but he added Pacman the package manager of Arch Linux. Pacman takes care of package installation, removal and upgrade… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/archiving-wordpress-posterous-site-httrack.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/archiving-wordpress-posterous-site-httrack.html Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I've decided that is time to archive my old Posterous' site, initially located at g.garron.me, to do that I've first moved it to Wordpress, a self hosted installation of Wordpress. In order to achieve that, I've previously imported it into a new wordpress.com blog, as the plugin to import Posterous,… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/add-html-extension-nginx-apache-htaccess.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/add-html-extension-nginx-apache-htaccess.html Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If for some reason (read switching blogging platform) you need to add .html extension to uri/url you can do it with Nginx location / { # do nothing it the extension is already present if ($request_filename ~* ^.+.html$) { break; } # add .html if it was not present if (-e $request_filename.html) { re… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/mac-os-x-copy-terminal-output-to-clipboard.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/mac-os-x-copy-terminal-output-to-clipboard.html Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you want to copy the result of any command in the terminal in your Mac to clipboard. For example if you need to use that info in a Pages document, or to paste it in your blog or forum. Use pbcopy Just pipe the output of the command in the terminal to pbcopy and they will directly to Mac's clipboa… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/what-xcode-version-am-i-running.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/what-xcode-version-am-i-running.html Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Q. How do you know which version of Xcode am I running? A. If you have it installed, to know the version you have, just run: /Developer/usr/bin/xcodebuild -version That will tell you the version of Xcode you are running. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/500-oops-vsftpd-refusing-to-run-with-writable-root-inside-chroot-solved.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/500-oops-vsftpd-refusing-to-run-with-writable-root-inside-chroot-solved.html Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I've installed vsftp FTP server in Arch Linux, and trying to run it with pam virtual users in a chroot'ed environment I've got this error: 500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot () This problem is caused because the users should not be able to write in the root directory … https://www.garron.me/en/tech/blackberry-imap-sent-items-sync-solved.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/blackberry-imap-sent-items-sync-solved.html Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Using Blackberry BIS you can sync your phone email client with any Imap server. I'm using Dovecot running over Arch Linux for my tests. Everything worked great, but I had one simple problem, none of the emails sent from the blackberry were visible in the sent folder in Thunderbird or the iPhone. Aft… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/slow-internet-bolivia.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/slow-internet-bolivia.html Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Reading Mac Forums I've decided to compare my Internet speed here in Bolivia, compared with the rest of the world. Mine is really, realy slow. Here my results. You see? really slow. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/wget-download-image-pdf-type-of-files.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/wget-download-image-pdf-type-of-files.html Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you need to download from a site all files of an specific type, you can use wget to do it. Let's say you want to download all images files with jpg extension. wget -r -A .jpg http://site.with.images/url/ Now if you need to download all mp3 music files, just change the above command to this: wget … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/find-files-between-dates-linux-mac-terminal.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/find-files-between-dates-linux-mac-terminal.html Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 How to find files modified between specific dates in Mac or Linux? You can use touch, find and xargs to do that. Find files modified between given dates First create files with touch with lower and upper dates of the range. touch -t 201201010000 lower-date touch -t 201203012359 upper-date Now use fi… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/stop-cron-job-from-sending-email.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/stop-cron-job-from-sending-email.html Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Cronjob sends you email every time the job is executed by the cron daemon. The email contains the output of the task itself. This can be very useful when you are debugging, but once everything is running OK it can be very annoying, specially if your cronjob is executed every few minutes. If you need… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/kill-all-instances-chromium-linux-command-line.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/kill-all-instances-chromium-linux-command-line.html Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 How to kill chrome / chromium master and all its child processes or instances in Linux from the command line? The answer is: pkill chrome or pkill chromium https://www.garron.me/en/bits/file-is-not-within-the-allowed-path.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/file-is-not-within-the-allowed-path.html Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you get an error similar to this one, when executing PHP scripts. File(/) is not within the allowed path(s): Just edit the php.ini file and add the path where your php script is to the open_basedir setting. So, if you have something like this: open_basedir = /srv/http/:/home/:/tmp/:/usr/share/pea… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/permalink-nginx-wordpress-404-solved.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/permalink-nginx-wordpress-404-solved.html Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 How to solve 404 error in Wordpress, working with Nginx, when enabling pretty permalink structure. Just add this line in the location block. try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php; https://www.garron.me/en/linux/nginx-php-fpm-mysql-apc-varnish-wordpress-cache-performance.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/nginx-php-fpm-mysql-apc-varnish-wordpress-cache-performance.html Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 ###Installing needed software ### I'm using Arch Linux as the server, so let's install needed software. First be sure you have the latest available software now install all the stuff. pacman -Syu Now install Nginx, PHP-FPM and MySQL pacman -S nginx php-fpm mysql Now let's first take some steps to be… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/apache-vs-nginx-php-fpm-varnish-apc-wordpress-performance.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/apache-vs-nginx-php-fpm-varnish-apc-wordpress-performance.html Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 ###Introduction### If you follow this blog, you may already know that I'm somehow obsessed with performance. But performance with low resources. I like to try to squeeze every drop of power from a server before upgrading it. Usually this is achievable tweaking configuration of the server. This time,… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/dropbox-vs-google-drive.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/dropbox-vs-google-drive.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Let's start saying that even though Google Drive is cheaper than Dropbox, Google Drive is 25% of Dropbox cost. But the big issue for me is the crossplatform support. I use Linux a lot, and I also use a Blackberry, and both platforms are only supported by Dropbox and not by Google Drive, so at least … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/check-ip-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/check-ip-linux.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Small Tip: Check and show the machine IP address in Linux ifconfig Should give you something like: eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 metric 1 inet 200.87.61.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 200.87.61.255 inet6 fe80::4240:74ff:fe89:aaa6 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> ether… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/check-if-program-is-running-start-it.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/check-if-program-is-running-start-it.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I'm running a program that from time to time stop working (Network issues). I'm now using this bash shell script to re-start it if it is not already running. vim ~/restart-if-not-running.sh Here are the contents: #!/bin/bash # Use ps and grep to check if the program is running ps -ef | grep -v grep … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/add-directory-folder-path.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/add-directory-folder-path.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Small tip: For Linux or Mac, actually Bash. How to add a folder to the path? Add directory to the beginning of the path PATH=/folder/to/add:$PATH Add directory to the end of the path PATH=$PATH:/folder/to/add Need it permanent? Just add it to your .bashrc file. note the leading dot https://www.garron.me/en/bits/ip-addr-add-address-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/ip-addr-add-address-linux.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 How to add or set the IP address in Linux using the ip command? You better start getting used to use the ip command as some Linux distributions have started deprecating the ifconfig command. So, if you want to set the IP in your Linux box, run: ip addr add 10.1.1.2/16 dev eth1 ip link set eth1 up Th… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/delete-purge-flush-mail-queue-postfix.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/delete-purge-flush-mail-queue-postfix.html Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 To flush or purge the postfix mail queue, just enter this command postfix -f But if you need to delete an individual email from the queue, you'll first need to see the queue. Traditionally you use mailq this time we'll use: postqueue -p And the output should show all messages in queue: 5642B4D8647* … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/why-lentils-my-favorite-dish.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/why-lentils-my-favorite-dish.html Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 There is this guy, a friend of me, to whom I like a lot to talk. He has some good stories, and today I would like to share one of them with you all. That day, we met after work to drink some beers and eat something while talking about anything. We usually talk about technology, about job, a little b… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ibex-wild-duck-picture-zoo.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ibex-wild-duck-picture-zoo.html Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 The Ibex picture was taken at Temaiken park in Buenos Aires The pictures of the duck, were taken at Santa Cruz, Bolivia Zoo. https://www.garron.me/en/linux/set-time-date-timezone-ntp-linux-shell-gnome-command-line.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/set-time-date-timezone-ntp-linux-shell-gnome-command-line.html Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 To have the correct time and date in Linux is very important, a lot of things depends on it. It does not matter if you are using Linux to power your personal computer or you have a Linux server. The server and system clock needs to be on time. Set date from the command line date +%Y%m%d -s "20120418… https://www.garron.me/en/food/low-carb-sausage-vegetables-recipe-lunch-breakfast.html https://www.garron.me/en/food/low-carb-sausage-vegetables-recipe-lunch-breakfast.html Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I like low carb diet, it is really effective, and also delicious. The other day I prepared myself this low-carb breakfast. It is a simple dish, and you can also have it for lunch. Ingredients: 1 sausage -Italian type- 1/2 onion sliced 1 tomato chili peppers soy sauce Put the sausage in a frier pan w… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/la-paz-bolivia-picture-night-panasonic-lumix.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/la-paz-bolivia-picture-night-panasonic-lumix.html Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 This picture was taken with a Panasonic DMC-FH24, using the extreme night scene. https://www.garron.me/en/linux/iptables-manual.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/iptables-manual.html Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 This is a small manual of iptables, I'll show some basic commands, you may need to know to keep your computer secure. ###Basic commands### List rules iptables -L This is going, list the default table "Filter". Edit: You may prefer to use iptables -L -vn to get more information, and to see ports as n… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/optimize-vps-drupal-varnish.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/optimize-vps-drupal-varnish.html Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 ###Introduction ### In the past, and for some years I've run my blog with the help of Drupal, in that time and in the first months, I've got Slashdoted, and Dugg three times, all three times my server went down. Since Then I've become obsessed with tweaking my server configuration to support the loa… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/run-cronjob-every-5-five-minutes-hours.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/run-cronjob-every-5-five-minutes-hours.html Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 One of the best things computers do, is to execute repetitive jobs, and with *nix systems that is done using cronjob. I usually want my jobs to run every X amount of time, let's say every 5 minutes, or every 12 hours. Here is how: Edit your cronjob file by running crontab -e command Add the followin… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/on-hiring-process.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/on-hiring-process.html Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Disclaimer: I'm not an HR expert, but I'm the manager of a small company, below is what worked for me in the past If you are managing a company or a project, you have to deal with hiring people, and specially if you are in a small company or a startup, you really need to take care about how you do i… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/multi-blog-site-jekyll.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/multi-blog-site-jekyll.html Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction One of the best platforms to run a multi blog site is Drupal. You can create a lot of accounts and each one can own a blog in the site. Wordpress also have its solution, it started as Wordpress MU, but since version 3.0 that feature is embedded in the core code. But for those of you who… https://www.garron.me/en/mac/install-htop-mac-os-x.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/install-htop-mac-os-x.html Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 On a fresh Linux install the first thing I install is htop which is a top-like monitor tool, but better. Here is a screenshot of it on my Debian Linux, taken some years ago: Some months ago I've sold my IBM T60 laptop and bought a Macbook Pro, so now I'm using Mac OS X instead of Linux on the laptop… https://www.garron.me/en/mac/3hub-amazon-s3-browser-mac.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/3hub-amazon-s3-browser-mac.html Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Amazon S3 is great for a series of uses. Like, traffic off-loading of static files, backup files and data or exchange info, I'm sure there are other uses as well. There are a lot of tools or S3 clients, for different platforms, but one I really like is 3Hub for Mac. According to its site you can: Ma… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/resize-window-gnome-out-boundaries.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/resize-window-gnome-out-boundaries.html Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 When for any reason, one of the margins of your window goes out of boundaries, specially when is the top margin, which is out of the boundaries of the screen. Move or resize to put it inside boundaries again is not a easy task, in those cases, what you can do, is resize using the keyboard. Just pres… https://www.garron.me/en/mac/awk-work-csv-comma-value-files.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/awk-work-csv-comma-value-files.html Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I work a lot on the terminal, either on my Linux or Mac computers, and when I need to work with CSV files, awk is a very good ally. Let's say you have a file like this one: Linux, Mac OS X, Windows XP, Windows 8 Ubuntu, iOS, Windows Mobile, Blackberry OS Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Blackberr… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/google-tap-morse-code-smart-keyboard-phone.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/google-tap-morse-code-smart-keyboard-phone.html Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Since the invention of the iPhone, everything is changing really fast in the smart phone area. Now Google comes with the Gmail Tap. What is it? Well is a new keyboard for your Android device. With it, instead of having a full QWERTY keyboard you only have two keys and the space, a total of three key… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/use-s3cmd-s3tools-command-line-amazon-s3.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/use-s3cmd-s3tools-command-line-amazon-s3.html Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I'm now using Amazon S3 as my web server for this site. I'm uploading the files to it either from my Arch Linux Computer, or from my MacBook Pro To do that, I'm using s3tools. It is a set of tools to be used from the command line either on Linux or Mac. To install it on the Arch Linux box was as eas… https://www.garron.me/en/mac/install-s3cmd-mac-os-x.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/install-s3cmd-mac-os-x.html Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you are planning to use Amazon S3 services, and you own a Mac, you may want to install s3cmd command from s3tools in your Mac. Here is how: First you need to get the software, you can download from here. Then just run: sudo python setup.py install And finally configure it running: s3cmd --configu… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/hot-summer-santa-cruz-bolivia.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/hot-summer-santa-cruz-bolivia.html Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 We're in Fall now, but last summer have been really hot. The global warming is really affecting our lives now. The more hot it is, the more air conditioning we use, and the more energy we waste, so next summer will be even hotter. https://www.garron.me/en/blog/moving-blog-amazon-s3-cloudfront-hosting.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/moving-blog-amazon-s3-cloudfront-hosting.html Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 After some months running this blog as static pages, I've finally made the final move to its optimization, I'm now running it completely on the cloud. This blog is now running from Amazon S3, behind Amazon Cloudfront. The blog is generated by Jekyll, and then uploaded to Amazon using s3cmd from my L… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/responsive-layout-html5-css3.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/responsive-layout-html5-css3.html Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 These last days I've been trying different possible ways to install a responsive layout for this site. I've been reading about Twitter Bootstrap, but it looks like a too complicated framework to be used only in a small blog like this one, so I tried less framework, which is good, but I could not ins… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/how-to-deal-with-down-votes.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/how-to-deal-with-down-votes.html Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 How to deal with down votes This is not only valid on line, it's also valid in real life. There will always be people that do not agree with you. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/comparing-new-ipad-screen.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/comparing-new-ipad-screen.html Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 iPad screen compared, under microscope https://www.garron.me/en/blog/more-about-comments-and-spam.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/more-about-comments-and-spam.html Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 It's been two days since I've enabled comments on this blog again. I must say that even though I've just got one real comment and more than 20 spam comments in that time I'm still happy with the decision. What really annoys me is: How stupid spammers think we are, they do not even try to make real c… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/postfix-relay-gmail-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/postfix-relay-gmail-linux.html Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Because of my implementation of static comments on this blog, and because of my need that all these comments should be sent to me via email. I needed an email server on my Linux, where I run Nginx. I decided to install postfix pacman -S postfix In my Arch Linux server. But to send emails from a "per… https://www.garron.me/en/mac/postfix-relay-gmail-mac-os-x-local-smtp.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/postfix-relay-gmail-mac-os-x-local-smtp.html Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 As I'm constantly trying and changing my default email application on my Mac, I'm currently using Thunderbird, the native email application and also Pilot. So, decided to use my own local SMTP in order to not store my credentials on each application, and for an easy configuration. Also because I lik… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/secure-dns-in-chroot.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/secure-dns-in-chroot.html Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Run a Secure Caching Server in Chroot DNS is a very important part in any Network, and having a local one may reduce latency. But it is also an easy piece to hack. Read here how to secure it. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/new-ipad-review.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/new-ipad-review.html Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 A little biased new iPad review https://www.garron.me/en/blog/on-blog-comments.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/on-blog-comments.html Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Some weeks ago I have turned comments on this blog off. After thinking about it, I realized some comments do really add value to sites. And I really miss the contact with my readers, but I do not like Disqus or Facebook, or any alike platform. I do not like because: Your content should not be in som… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/how-secure-are-your-answers-to-security-questions.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/how-secure-are-your-answers-to-security-questions.html Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Tighten the Security of “Security Questions” If your answers are easy to discover, your accounts might be at risk, and someone may recover your passwords. Pretending they are you. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/my-interview-at-linux-notes-from-darkduck.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/my-interview-at-linux-notes-from-darkduck.html Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 My friend Dmitry, the author of Linux Notes from DarkDuck Interviewed me: If you want, read [the interview][1] Thanks a lot Dmitry for this opportunity to share my thoughts with your readers. [1]: http://linuxblog.darkduck.com/2012/03/guillermo-garron-linux-can-be-as-easy.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/enable-web-sharing-in-mountain-lion.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/enable-web-sharing-in-mountain-lion.html Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Enable Web Server in Mountain Lion If you miss the Web Sharing Option in Mac OS X Mountain Lion, this is for you. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/configure-slackware-on-a-macbook-pro.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/configure-slackware-on-a-macbook-pro.html Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Configure Slackware 13.1 for Macbook Pro 6,2 https://www.garron.me/en/linux/arch-linux-10th-birthday.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/arch-linux-10th-birthday.html Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Arch Linux is turning 10 this month. Ten years that have gone so fast, it is the same time since my first daughter birth. I can still remember like yesterday being in the Hospital seeing her fragile body and now she is my best friend. Something similar happens to me with Arch Linux, I've not knew it… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/choosing-the-right-ipad.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/choosing-the-right-ipad.html Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 which iPad should I get? If you are planning to buy an iPad. You may like to read this. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/link-via-and-sharing-links.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/link-via-and-sharing-links.html Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I'm not a curator I must admit, I have done that sometimes. No I've created this section to share links with my readers. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/angry-birds-for-google-chrome.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/angry-birds-for-google-chrome.html Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Angry Birds for Chrome If you love the popular game Angry Birds this note is for you https://www.garron.me/en/bits/what-is-property.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/what-is-property.html Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Defining Property, An essay by: Paul Graham https://www.garron.me/en/blog/post-jekyll-using-dropbox.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/post-jekyll-using-dropbox.html Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I like making things automatic, actually I like creating things just for the fun of learning. I know there are other ways to blog easier, I know there are other ways to do this. But I like to figure out how to do it by myself. Well, by myself is just a way to say so. I'm of course reading and "googl… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/use-incron-rsync-dropbox-backup.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/use-incron-rsync-dropbox-backup.html Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 ##Introduction ## There are some situations, when you need to start an action or run a command when a given file has changed in your file system. The real life example I have is as follows: I have a git repository, from where I manage this blog, I have a remote branch of it on the same server, from … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/multimarkdown.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/multimarkdown.html Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 ##First Impressions on MultiMarkdown## I've read yesterday about [MultiMarkdown][1], and so far I'm loving it. MultiMarkdown is, for those who don't know: MultiMarkdown, or MMD, is a tool to help turn minimally marked-up plain text into well formatted documents, including HTML, PDF (by way of LaTeX)… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/linux-app-store.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/linux-app-store.html Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 We are all impressed about the Apple App Store, but as you can read at Linuxaria, we already had that in Linux for years. But We have to admit that, Apple is great at taking things that already exist in the market, and make them wonderful. No one is as good as Apple (read Steve Jobs) in doing that, … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/posting-on-the-go.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/posting-on-the-go.html Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 After some months of having this feature on my old Drupal blog, I know have it again in this new blog powered by Jekyll. At least in this section, I do not know If I'm going to install the feature on the other sections as those are for bigger posts, and bigger posts need a computer. If I'm on my com… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/why-call-4g-something-that-actually-is-not-any-better-than-3g.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/why-call-4g-something-that-actually-is-not-any-better-than-3g.html Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Today I found at Marco Arment blog, a post talking about slow 4G speed. He says: I just benchmarked the connnection at a blazing 0.63 Mbps down and 0.07 Mbps up. As you can see this "4G" is not any better than the old "3G". I work in the Telecom area, and the whole problem is that all carriers do no… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/hello-world.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/hello-world.html Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Hello World test from email. This is still not working. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/using-my-blog-as-twitter.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/using-my-blog-as-twitter.html Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Until I finish this debugging I'll be using my blog as Twitter just to make some more tests. Sorry about that. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/free-writing.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/free-writing.html Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 In this Bits section I plan to have somehow a more free-writing as I'm now going to be able to even post by email to this section, I might be posting about day to day thoughts that could come to my mind. I would also like to share some links I find interesting, while reviewing my RSS subscriptions, … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/cat-picture.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/cat-picture.html Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Still Testing the email to blog, now to upload images. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/beagle-dog.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/beagle-dog.html Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 The Beagle is one of my favorites breed of dogs. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/finally-working-email-to-jekyll.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/finally-working-email-to-jekyll.html Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 ##Introduction## Ever since I discovered posterous, I wanted to post by email, but to my own blog (I do not like others to host my content). I was running Drupal by that time, and I was able to implement email to Drupal, using some modules I don't remember now. After that I have tried with Wordpress… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/some-apps-from-the-mac-app-store-that-worth-checking-out.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/some-apps-from-the-mac-app-store-that-worth-checking-out.html Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 The Mac App Store is big, maybe not at big as the iOS one, but big anyway. Therefore it is always nice to find some one's list of favorites. If you are a developer, or a just love to explore the capabilities of your Mac, this list of Mac apps may interest your. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/jekyllmail-rb-post-to-jekyll-by-email.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/jekyllmail-rb-post-to-jekyll-by-email.html Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I'm using Masukomi's Jekyllmai.rb script to post from email to my Jekyll blog. I'm still have an issue running jekyll from a script. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/resizing-images-on-fly-with-ruby.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/resizing-images-on-fly-with-ruby.html Sat, 10 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you ever need to resize an image using Ruby, and you are familiar with Linux command convert from Imagegick. You may use RMagic https://www.garron.me/en/tech/new-ipad.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/new-ipad.html Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Two days ago Apple released the iPad 3, or how Apple is calling it the 'New iPad'. Some reviews are saying that because this new iPad is comming with so few new features, this is the opportunity the rivals were waiting for. That this is the opportunity for others tablet makers to surpass Apple. For … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/blogging-from-email.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/blogging-from-email.html Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 This is just a test of a nice feature I'm trying to enable in my blog. Something I miss from Posterous. And it is the ability to post from email. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/good-collection-of-graphics-linux-tools.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/good-collection-of-graphics-linux-tools.html Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Here is a nice review of some good graphics tools or apps as Darckduck is calling them Check them here https://www.garron.me/en/bits/using-vim-with-crontab-e.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/using-vim-with-crontab-e.html Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you want to use vim instead of vi with crontab -e. You can use this command: export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim And then invoque crontab -e You should now be using vim instead of vi https://www.garron.me/en/bits/duck-picture.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/duck-picture.html Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 This duck picture, was taken in Santa Cruz, Bolivia's Zoo. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/email-to-blog-final-testing.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/email-to-blog-final-testing.html Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Hope this time this works, this is one of my last tests, because I need to sleep. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/great-news-about-the-new-ipad-battery.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/great-news-about-the-new-ipad-battery.html Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 The new iPad battery has doubled its battery read more here. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/sending-picture-to-my-blog-from-iphone.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/sending-picture-to-my-blog-from-iphone.html Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Testing the way to send a picture from iPhone to my blog. Using Jekyll and Masukomi's script. https://www.garron.me/en/bits/still-not-completely-working-the-email-to-blog-implementation.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/still-not-completely-working-the-email-to-blog-implementation.html Fri, 09 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I'm still trying to have this working. Actually it works, but not completely automatic, and the whole idea behind sending an email to your blog is that everything should be automatic. You should only send the email and the server should do the rest. https://www.garron.me/en/linux/find-copy-files-exec-xargs-bash-linux-mac-osx.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/find-copy-files-exec-xargs-bash-linux-mac-osx.html Mon, 05 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 This is a very useful command, find and I have written about it before, today I want to share with you how to use it to find and copy files. What makes it wonderful, is that is can locate files all over your disk, and copy all those that match a specific criteria to a given folder. Pretty useful, if… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/tungle.me-increase-productivity-review-sync-calendar.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/tungle.me-increase-productivity-review-sync-calendar.html Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 We all know the hassle it could be to book and appointment with your customer, or even with your old friend to share a cup of coffee, and a good chat. The problem is that you need to check your calendar, he needs to check his, and then find a space in both calendars in the same day and time. All thi… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/pingdom-reports-improvement-after-cloudfront.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/pingdom-reports-improvement-after-cloudfront.html Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Some days ago I started to use cloudfront, I'm also hosting my blog at home. Now I want to share with you how the performance has been increased in this small period. First, I also need to tell you that just for fun I'm serving css files from Rackspace' Cloudfiles, but the HTML is being served to yo… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/does-tablets-replace-laptops.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/does-tablets-replace-laptops.html Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000 John Gruber talking about if the iPad replace or not a Laptop. Actually he was responding to Eric Grevstad. Grevstad assure iPad is not a Laptop replacement, Gruber says that "In the real world" he sees more and more people using the iPad where before a Laptop was needed. To me a tablet does not rep… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/diff-folders-recursive-files-linux-mac-osx.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/diff-folders-recursive-files-linux-mac-osx.html Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Let's say you have two folders which are supposed to have the same information each one of them, but don't really know. How can you check if they really have the same info? You can use diff First thing, create a scenario to check how diff works. I'll create two folders with subfolders and files in t… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/a-blog-that-is-not-a-blog.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/a-blog-that-is-not-a-blog.html Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I may stop calling my blog posts, blog posts, and start calling them articles. After reading this article, I noticed that my blog is maybe not a blog. I usually do not write about my day to day experiences, but more about sharing my knowledge with everybody, actually that was the idea behind this si… https://www.garron.me/en/mac/clean-writer-pro-review.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/clean-writer-pro-review.html Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I've just bought Clean Writer Pro from the Mac App Store, to use it to write the articles in this site, I usually use vim, but I like testing new software, so I'm giving this one a try. If you buy it, (It is for sale now only 99 cents) the first thing you will notice is that it is really minimalisti… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/cloudfront-custom-origin-affordable-hosting.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/cloudfront-custom-origin-affordable-hosting.html Tue, 28 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I'm always trying to cut costs, and still have a good service (I'm sure I'm not the only one). These days I've trying to optimize my blog, so it can be faster for my readers but without increasing the cost on my site. What I'm doing is hosting from my home PC, you may say "Are you nuts?", specially … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/deploying-cloudfront-for-my-site.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/deploying-cloudfront-for-my-site.html Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 After reading and trying Cloudflare for two days, I've decided to test Cloudfront for the very first time in my life. It is so cheap, that I'm thinking about serving my site from a small server in my house and use Cloudfront to handle the load. I'll write a complete blog post about it in one or two … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/using-git-to-sync-two-or-more-computers.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/using-git-to-sync-two-or-more-computers.html Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 As some of you already know, this blog is generated by jekyll, wich I run directly on my Linode VPS. I ssh my server, use vim to write my posts, and then generate the blog with jekyll, but sometimes I want to write while not connected, I use rsync to backup my entire blog to my Macbook Pro, and to m… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/turn-off-stop-ubuntu-automatic-update.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/turn-off-stop-ubuntu-automatic-update.html Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 One thing Ubuntu lovers like about Ubuntu is that it is "user friendly", to me, it is "user friendly" only if the user doesn't know what he is doing. As an example I have automatic updates, it may be convenient that your operating system search for updates for you (If you do not know how to do it, o… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/creating-an-alternate-css-for-mobiles.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/creating-an-alternate-css-for-mobiles.html Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I'm no css or web developer expert, in fact I'm not even a newbie. So it was really hard for me to be able to create a mobile version of my site. And it is not finished yet, but at least it now renders in only one column with an acceptable font size, and it is somehow easy to read in the mobile devi… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-aur-abs-arch-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/install-aur-abs-arch-linux.html Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I really like Arch Linux a lot, it is my favorite distribution, one thing I like a lot, is how easy is to install software from sources, and configure it to fit your needs. We will see two ways of doing that, the first one is when the software is available in the official Arch Linux repositories. Th… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/learning-python.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/learning-python.html Mon, 20 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I have started today, well actually yesterday, as it has elapsed 10 minutes of the new day, to code Python. I have an idea about programming, but I'm not good at all, I like it, and I've decided to start again my learning process, this time with Python. In the past I have tried Basic (being a child)… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/hibernate-close-lid-gnome-shell-ubuntu.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/hibernate-close-lid-gnome-shell-ubuntu.html Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I'm using Ubuntu Linux on my Acer Aspire One, actually I'm using Ubuntu on it, by default when you close the lid the laptop goes to "suspend mode", instead I prefer it to go to "hibernate mode" because in suspend it still uses battery juice to keep the contents in RAM, but in hibernate mode it copie… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/firewalld-is-not-running-ubuntu-printer.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/firewalld-is-not-running-ubuntu-printer.html Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If when trying to configure a network printer, using Gnome over Ubuntu 11.10 you get this error: FirewallD is not running. Network printer detection needs services mdns, ipp, ipp-client and samba client enabled on firewall. You will have to find a workaround, and one possible one is to open a window… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/why-i-chose-google-talk.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/why-i-chose-google-talk.html Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I do not like to chat, specially because it takes to much time to have a small conversation, If I have something really urgent to tell someone I call him, if it is not that important, I write an email, that way the other person may respond whenever he has time. But, for my family I have been testing… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/ubuntu-11-10-unity.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/ubuntu-11-10-unity.html Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I have not been an Ubuntu user since 2009, but it is over a year since I want to test Ubuntu with Unity, this week I finally did, I'm not at home right now, and I used to travel with my Macbook Pro, but I have just acquired an Acer Aspire One. I tried to install Arch Linux on it from a usb key, but … https://www.garron.me/en/linux/exclude-folder-rsync-backup.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/exclude-folder-rsync-backup.html Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 You may have already know how to do this, but just in case, I'll put here this small tip. If you want to backup using rsync, or just transfer some files from one server to another, being them Unix, Linux DSD or Apple's OSX, you can do it using rsync. What I like about this tool, besides it keeps inc… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/mount-iso-movie-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/mount-iso-movie-linux.html Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I have some movie DVDs, that I bought some time ago, I noticed that some of the started to degrade, specially because my boy plays with the DVD as if it were a toy. So, what I need was to create an ISO file from them and store them on my computer, then I can play them on my PC for them: In case you … https://www.garron.me/en/bits/jobs-was-a-genius-ballmer-is-not.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/jobs-was-a-genius-ballmer-is-not.html Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 MG Siegler found this great video showing Steve Ballmer laughing at iPhone, but just to be fair, who if not Steve Jobs could have ever imagine such a success with a phone, keyboard less, with almost no battery duration, and other bad points. What you can see when you analyse this in retrospective, i… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/how-to-become-a-hacker.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/how-to-become-a-hacker.html Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Today I was reading before going to sleep, I usually do when I can't sleep. (And usually I find something interesting and that force me stay awake even more). Well, I found a guide to become a hacker. I've found that I have some checkpoints passed. I like and I'm learning (after 6 years with it, dai… https://www.garron.me/en/bits/US-UK-police-call-recorded-anonymous-hackers.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/US-UK-police-call-recorded-anonymous-hackers.html Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 FBI probes Anonymous intercept of US-UK hacking call The FBI is investigating how activists linked to the Anonymous network managed to intercept a conference call between British and US police in which they discussed legal action against hackers. Somebody should teach them how to encrypt an email https://www.garron.me/en/bits/bin-vs-usr-bin.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/bin-vs-usr-bin.html Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Something that @Thomas A. Limoncelli posted. From where the /bin, /usr/bin, sbin, usr/sbin split comes https://www.garron.me/en/bits/rose-kennedy-quote.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/rose-kennedy-quote.html Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone. Rose Kennedy https://www.garron.me/en/bits/starting-bits.html https://www.garron.me/en/bits/starting-bits.html Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 This new section is going to be for really small posts, maybe just a link and a small comment about it, or a quote I may like or just a thought. Really small posts, like this one :). https://www.garron.me/en/blog/new-email-security-settings-google-apps-postini.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/new-email-security-settings-google-apps-postini.html Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Today I got an email from Google: It seems that they are going to have their own security services instead of postini. Some parts of the email says: First, take notice action will be required on your part. This message is to notify you about a change to the Postini Message Security Service included … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ycombinator-offer-fund-startup-that-may-kill-hollywood.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/ycombinator-offer-fund-startup-that-may-kill-hollywood.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Y-Combinator seed fund startups with great ideas, some of the beneficiaries are: Dropbox Disqus Now they are asking for startups that may present alternatives to the Movie industry, they are offering to fund companies that may compete against Hollywood, and ultimately kill it. The people who run it … https://www.garron.me/en/mac/itunes-match-finally-working.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/itunes-match-finally-working.html Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Yesterday night and after three days of seeing Error 5002 iTunes, I've been able to subscribe to the service, and it is actually uploading my music. What I can't understand is why some music I have bought in iTunes have not been recognized and is going to be uploaded. I have purchased some country m… https://www.garron.me/en/tech/sync-google-labels-bes-blackberry.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/sync-google-labels-bes-blackberry.html Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 If you are using Google Apps premier or Education edition, you can sync your email with Blackberry phones, using BES server, it could be your own BES server or a hosted BES service. It will sync by default just your "Sent Mail" and "Inbox" folder/label, but if you want other labels to be pushed to y… https://www.garron.me/en/mac/could-not-purchase-5002-error.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/could-not-purchase-5002-error.html Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 iTunes Match was released today in other 19 countries, including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Guatemala, Honduras, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. I live in Bolivia, and I immedia… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/stay-away-from-facebook.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/stay-away-from-facebook.html Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 First of all, I should say I'm on facebook, I should also admit that I almost never update my wall, and I basically use it to stay in touch with school friend. I have found some interesting points of view about why one may prefer to stay away from Facebook. ...since the adoption of the Internet, it … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/SOPA-alternative.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/SOPA-alternative.html Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I'm using the work "silly" in the title because, I do not know how the media industry really work, and I do not know how the royalties are payed. But let's suppose for a moment that my idea can be put in practice, so here are my two cents. The SOPA bill is aiming at stopping piracy, we should all ag… https://www.garron.me/en/tech/wifi-hotspot-tethering-blackberry.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/wifi-hotspot-tethering-blackberry.html Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 It was about time, I was able to do this with my Nokia E71 some years ago, even before the iPhone and Android powered phones. Now Blackberry is announcing with Blackberry OS 7.1 the possibility to create WiFi Hotspots, for up to five clients. This is a long waiting feature, that even though it is la… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/on-blogging.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/on-blogging.html Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 You may see that I have a little more free time now that some months ago, as I'm starting to blog again, the inspiration is flowing again, and I feel the urge to share my thoughts and share what I learn and what I think may be interesting. I also have more time to read, because to me blogging is lik… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/convert-pdf-to-jpg.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/convert-pdf-to-jpg.html Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 A friend of mine called me today telling me he had to open a file that ended in PDF, but he was not able, I guided him to install Adobe reader on his Windows XP computer, but it was not easy as I was not watching the same screens he was, so I preferred to convert his PDF to JPG. He sent me the file … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/android-handset-makers-apple-microsoft.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/android-handset-makers-apple-microsoft.html Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 This one is funny, and it may be true: Android handset makers: Here are our phones. How would you like us to change them so that you will sell them? Microsoft: Here's $200 million. Please sell our phones. Apple: Here is our new phone. It comes in black or white. We will let you sell it. Considering … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/email-dying-no-way.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/email-dying-no-way.html Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 While talking to a teenager about smartphones the other day, I was explaining her, how to choose the right smartphone to use with her email account, when she told me "Younger people rarely use email, it is just full of spam, we prefer to text or use facebook, as a way of communication". Well, if we … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/no-best-smartphone-iphone-android-blackberry.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/no-best-smartphone-iphone-android-blackberry.html Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 After reading a lot of phone reviews, and having owned Android, iOS and Blackberry devices, I have arrived to a conclusion: There is no such thing as "The best smartphone". I'm sure a lot of you agree with me. There are still fan boys, that believe that because some specific model of phone is better… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/more-on-comments.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/more-on-comments.html Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Edit: 2013-05-23. Removing the links to Twitter, those are 404 now. Today I've got this message from @unixthis. He has a good point there, and it is really time consuming to deal with comment spam, time that I can use to write more how-tos or info you may need. But it is also true that a blogger nee… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/reduce-body-fat.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/reduce-body-fat.html Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I've been lifting weights as a hobby for four years already, In all this time I've tried different ways to stay "cut". I'm not trying to look huge, just slim and cut. Gain some muscles is not really a big problem, but get rid of the body-fat is a different problem. If you have ever tried that you ma… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/blog-comments-off.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/blog-comments-off.html Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Today while reviewing my daily news digest, I stumble upon a post about turning off comments on blog. After reading all the pros and cons in that digested post. I realized that giving the enormous facility in today Internet to get in touch with a blog author, to have a comment system in your blog is… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/find-out-the-model-video-card-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/find-out-the-model-video-card-linux.html Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 This happens to me every time I want to install a new distribution of Linux in my Desktop PC, I just can't remember what is the model of my video card so I can install the correct drivers. Fortunately Linux has enough tools to help you, and this time the tool is lspci. Let's see how simple it is: ls… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/openvpn-server-client-linux-how-to.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/openvpn-server-client-linux-how-to.html Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 Today I'll write about OpenVPN, and how to establish a VPN between two computers. ##The scenario## There are two offices. The headquarters The branch office In this scenario the administrator wants all traffic of the branch office to be routed via the headquarters Internet router. This can be desira… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/facebook-chat-messenger-app-review.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/facebook-chat-messenger-app-review.html Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0000 I'm not a big fan of Facebook, I don't update it too frequently either, but some days ago I found that these days Facebook have released a new app Facebook chat, which is based on its acquisition of Beluga. I've tested it on Blackberry, on my Android and also on my iPod Touch and it works great on a… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/Nginx-logrotate-infinite-loop-problems.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/Nginx-logrotate-infinite-loop-problems.html Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Today I've found that my CPU was throttling at 100%. The culprit was logrotate, or at least that was what I thought when I took a look at htop and saw that logrotate had been running at 100% for 10 hours straight. I then used du, in the /var/log/ folder to find which was the folder that was so big t… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/testing-office-365-blackberry-cloud-service.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/testing-office-365-blackberry-cloud-service.html Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 These days I've been testing Microsoft's Office 365 solution in convention with the Blackberry Business Cloud Services from RIM. I normally use Google Apps for my business but I wanted to test this new offer from Microsoft. Being a Linux and Mac user, it is hard to stay away from Microsoft's office … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/blogging-again.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/blogging-again.html Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Some months have past since my last post in this blog, I've been really busy these last months at the office, and to be honest with few ideas to blog about. I've some ideas now, I just to start blogging again, this is something you need to do because you like and not because you have to. At least fo… https://www.garron.me/en/mac/ios-5-almost-released.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/ios-5-almost-released.html Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 I've just upgraded my iTunes to 10.5, I'm sure iOS 5 is almost here, iTunes is just getting ready for it. iOS 5 comes with more than 200 new features, and I can't wait to see it action, this is a very important release as it is also the last one in which Steve Jobs actively participated and also pre… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/4-reasons-to-have-linux-live-cd-home.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/4-reasons-to-have-linux-live-cd-home.html Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:00 +0000 ##4 reasons to have Live Linux at home## Linux became real part of our lives. You can meet anywhere... in your appliances, mobile phones, internet servers, desktops and laptops. In most cases this is either "embedded" or "installed" version of Linux. But there is another type of Linux operating syst… https://www.garron.me/en/tech/blackberry-network-data-traffic-control.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/blackberry-network-data-traffic-control.html Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 When you get a blackberry, you usually also get a Data Plan associated with it, this can be an unlimited data plan or a fixed data plan. If you are getting a fixed data plan, you may be interested in an application which is able, to monitor and control your blackberry data usage. Otherwise you may e… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/remove-offending-key-ssh.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/remove-offending-key-ssh.html Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This is a small tip if you want to remove a line from a file, this is particularly useful when you get this message: Warning: the ECDSA host key for 'garron.me' differs from the key for the IP address '200.87.133.237' Offending key for IP in /home/gentoo/.ssh/known_hosts:20 Matching host key in /hom… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/9-11-2001-world-trade-center-attack.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/9-11-2001-world-trade-center-attack.html Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 That day, 11/99 in 2001 I was traveling, returning home actually. Twelve days before I traveled to Tel Aviv Israel, for a training course, I have been spending my last weekend in Israel traveling in the north of the country, now it was time to go back home. It started at 3 a.m. in Ben Gurion Airport… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/find-which-package-library-belongs.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/find-which-package-library-belongs.html Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 When you are compiling there are times, when you need to install a given library, but the problem is that you do not know which package to install. I mean you can't install the library itself as it is contained in a given package, you first need to know which package it belongs to. Once you know tha… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/chrome-os-chromebook-ready-prime-time.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/chrome-os-chromebook-ready-prime-time.html Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 How fast things change in this world now a days, you can't sleep a day without, being left behind. Just a few weeks ago I wrote about Chrome OS "I still do not see too much uses for it", I was saying that mainly because, you needed to be "connected" in order to use it. Two days ago, Google announced… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/designer-vs-coder-hiring.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/designer-vs-coder-hiring.html Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Reading some posts today I've arrived to this possible dilemma. Given this scenario, where your company has a low budget problem. Who would you hire? Designer who knows to code? A coder who can design? I'm an engineer myself, and have always said that our job is more important than Architects' job. … https://www.garron.me/en/linux/18-million-hits-per-day-nginx-jekyll.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/18-million-hits-per-day-nginx-jekyll.html Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Today a post about 9 million hits per day with 120 MB RAM on Hacker News, called my attention. As the guy who wrote that post, I've trying to make my blog be ready for a rush of visits. As him, I've been hit in the past from Digg (Twice) and from Slashdot once, that was when I was beginning and I ha… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/charset-encoding-html-change.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/charset-encoding-html-change.html Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction From Wikipedia: A character encoding system consists of a code that pairs each character from a given repertoire with something else, such as a sequence of natural numbers, octets or electrical pulses, in order to facilitate the transmission of data (generally numbers and/or text) throu… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/perfect-blogging-platform.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/perfect-blogging-platform.html Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 You have decided it is time to start your blog, and you are not just any person. You are a Linux geek, so which is the best platform for your blog? Before answering that question let's consider these other things: You want to be the owner of your content You want your server be able to handle the lo… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/thanks-steve.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/thanks-steve.html Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Some days ago the whole geek-world and the rest of the world too, received the news that Steve Jobs was resigning as Apple's CEO. After his medical "vacations" I think we all knew that this was going to happen. Was something someday have to happen. Lot's of lines have been written in important media… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/starting-as-developer-android-or-ios.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/starting-as-developer-android-or-ios.html Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Android or iPhone developer? I may be crazy, because with no previous knowledge of modern programing I've decided to be an app developer, or at least, I'm in process of deciding it. Once upon a time, too many years ago I was a programmer :). I worked with DBase but since that time I've worked in the… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/increase-swap-memory-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/increase-swap-memory-linux.html Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This is usually not needed, but if for some reason you need to increase the Swap memory of your system, I'll show you now, how to do it. You can read more about virtual memory if you want. Now let's see how to increase, or create a swap file, to be used for Linux as virtual memory. First we need to … https://www.garron.me/en/linux/enable-ipv6-nginx.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/enable-ipv6-nginx.html Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Two months ago we celebreated the IPv6 day, and now that we know that IPv4 addresses are exhausted, we need to start using IPv6, some datacenters like linode are already offering IPv6 native support. If you are running your website over Nginx, enable IPv6 support is quite easy. Just open nginx.conf … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/what-i-have-learned-at-hacker-news.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/what-i-have-learned-at-hacker-news.html Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 I've been "connected" to the Internet for some 12 years already, in that time I've participated in forums, mailing lists, Twitter and other communities. In the last two weeks I've been "active" in Hacker News. What have I learned in these two weeks from them? It's a mature community: I mean, they ar… https://www.garron.me/en/tech/lower-case-edge-gprs-blackberry-logo-3g.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/lower-case-edge-gprs-blackberry-logo-3g.html Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Your Blackberry should normally show you how it is connected to the data network, if it is not using WIFI, it should be using either Edge, GPRS or 3G. For Edge and GPRS, the letters should be in uppercase, (EDGE or GPRS), and that indicate that your phone is connected to the blackberry services, in … https://www.garron.me/en/linux/general-error-1030-got-error-134-from-storage-engine.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/general-error-1030-got-error-134-from-storage-engine.html Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 If you get this error General error: 1030 Got error 134 from storage engine when trying to access any PHP application that uses MySQL, do not panic as the problem is really easy to solve. All you have to do is repair your tables, you can use PHPMyAdmin for that: Login into PHPMyAdmin Choose the data… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/enable-gzip-mod_deflate-compression-apache.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/enable-gzip-mod_deflate-compression-apache.html Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 If you check your website stats, you will see that most of your visitors are using modern web browsers, those browsers now support gzip (compressed) content. What does that mean?. Of course you know about zipping a file or group of files to make them use less space, maybe you zipped files to send th… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/share-files-local-network-giver.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/share-files-local-network-giver.html Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 There are a lot of options to share files with your co-workers, if you are using Linux, you can use Python, you can start an FTP server, use ssh, or "the cloud" (Google Docs, Dropbox and others). But an old piece of software is still very useful today, that software is Giver. You can easily install … https://www.garron.me/en/linux/how-to-write-linux-distribution-review.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/how-to-write-linux-distribution-review.html Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Reviews of Linux distributions: I've read a lot of them, and I've write some too, I've been thinking about how a good review should be, what it should include, and what it should aim to. In the comments section of my friend's blog, started a nice discussion. In the review the writer stated that he h… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/switching-drupal-jekyll-migrate.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/switching-drupal-jekyll-migrate.html Sat, 13 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Introduction I started blogging about Linux, in 2007, it all started because I was writing almost daily in some Linux distribution lists, so I thought it could have made sense to put all my writings on line in a single place, so others can use them. I started writing about my discoveries, how to tut… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/cookie-free-domain-nginx.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/cookie-free-domain-nginx.html Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Part of the Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site is Use Cookie-free Domains for Components. And what does this means? It means that you should serve your static content, from a domain where no cookies have been sent to the browser. How can you achieve this? You best bet is to create a new do… https://www.garron.me/en/mac/macbook-hibernate-sleep-deep-standby.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/macbook-hibernate-sleep-deep-standby.html Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 So you've got your the new OS X Lion and you are using a Macbook pro or Macbook Air? We all know that one of the more important features of a laptop is its battery capacity, it makes no sense to have a laptop that only last for an hour on batteries, another important thing now a days, is that we all… https://www.garron.me/en/mac/delete-photo-from-iphoto-hard-disk-space.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/delete-photo-from-iphoto-hard-disk-space.html Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Today cameras take really big photos and not matter how big your hard disk is, sometime you will have it full, so it is a good practice to delete some of the photos you do not want after importing them to iPhoto. But if you just select them and press the delete button, they will be sent to the Libra… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/itunes-smart-playlist.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/itunes-smart-playlist.html Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Smart Playlists in iTunes are lists that can automatically update, you can read in Apple's site A playlist to which you assign rules (for example, songs by certain artists); when you add a song to your library that matches the criteria, iTunes automatically adds the song to the Smart Playlist. You c… https://www.garron.me/en/tech/are-tablets-good.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/are-tablets-good.html Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 ###Are Tablets good or bad?### I understand that is a subjective question, in fact that kind of questions are the ones you should try not to ask, so, let's change it. Are Tablets useful for you/me? OK, now that is a better question, and the answer is: It depends, and it depends on what you want to d… https://www.garron.me/en/tech/blackberry-new-torch-bold.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/blackberry-new-torch-bold.html Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Blackberry released the Torch 9850/9860 as well as the new Bold 9900, as for the Torch it now comes with a 1.2 GHz processor and Blackberry OS 7. What I hope, is that new apps appear in the market for Blackberry and more developers start to create them. To me BB's disadvantage agains Android phones … https://www.garron.me/en/mac/icloud-beta-available.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/icloud-beta-available.html Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 iCloud is now available for developers, if you have a developer Apple ID you can log in and start using and testing the services. This shows that it is near the day when it will be available for everybody. Also there are new releases of iWork and iPhoto that can work and use iCloud. The UI is now si… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/get-size-type-of-picture-linux-console.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/get-size-type-of-picture-linux-console.html Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This is another small tip, but very useful for webmasters, you know that a webpage loads faster if you define the height and width of an image in the html code. But what if you do not know that info of a given image?, you can always fire the GIMP or any other graphical application to check the size … https://www.garron.me/en/tech/nokia-rim-loosing-market-share.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/nokia-rim-loosing-market-share.html Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Today I've came across this post, it clearly shows how some smartphones are losing market participation while others are increasing sells. As the author of the post states, that is tied to the platform each manufacturer decided to use and more and more people are going to Android and iOS while leavi… https://www.garron.me/en/tech/gingerbread-upgrade-xperia-x10.html https://www.garron.me/en/tech/gingerbread-upgrade-xperia-x10.html Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Finally after a really long wait Xperia X10 users can start upgrading their phones to Gingerbread, this is first only released to generic devices and not for operator ones. Even if there will be some operator kits getting this upgrade – some of you will not be able to upgrade your customized version… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/moving-go2linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/moving-go2linux.html Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 I've not completely decided this, but I'm seriously thinking about moving Go2linux blog to Garron.me I'm not going to remove Go2Linux nor move all posts to a new location, I will just stop posting there and continue to post in the new site. The main reason is, that I want to post about not only Linu… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/people-with-low-iq-use-internet-explorer.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/people-with-low-iq-use-internet-explorer.html Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 According to a study (I do not know if it is real), it seems that people with low IQ uses Internet Explorer rather than other web browsers like, Firefox or Google Chrome. "A significant number of individuals with a low score on the cognitive test were found to be using Microsoft Internet Explorer (I… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/rainy-sunday.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/rainy-sunday.html Sun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 It is a cold and rainy day today, and the forecast says that tomorrow will be even colder :(. No outdoors Sunday with the kids today, let's wait for other seven days. https://www.garron.me/en/linux/nginx-remove-trailing-slash.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/nginx-remove-trailing-slash.html Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 For good SEO you better have only one url for every post or article in your site, as having two uris responding with the same content may lead to duplicate content and that is penalized by the search engines, specially by Google which is the biggest by far. So, if you are using Nginx and want to rem… https://www.garron.me/en/linux/add-line-to-specific-position-in-file-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/linux/add-line-to-specific-position-in-file-linux.html Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Add a line in a specific position with Linux If you need to add a line to a file in Linux, and you need to add that line in a specific position of the file there is an easy solution, even if you need to do it to hundreds of thousands of files. Consider this file: line 1 line 2 line 4 As you can see … https://www.garron.me/en/mac/change-macbook-pro-sleep-hibernate.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/change-macbook-pro-sleep-hibernate.html Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 ###Sleep vs Hibernate## First thing we'll define the differences between sleep and hibernate. sleep: The computer is 'almost' off, the system is on the RAM and the rest of the computer is off. hibernate: All computer is off, the system has been copied to the hard disk to resume from it later. Well, … https://www.garron.me/en/blog/migrating-from-wordpress-to-jekyll.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/migrating-from-wordpress-to-jekyll.html Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 ##Migrating my blog## I've been playing a lot with this blog, I've first started it running on Movable Type, it was there for one week more or less, I realized that running a Movable type blog along with my Drupal one, well that may need too much effort, so I decided to switch. What I really liked a… https://www.garron.me/en/mac/experimenting-with-jekyll.html https://www.garron.me/en/mac/experimenting-with-jekyll.html Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 ####Introduction#### I've just installed Jekyll to manage my blogs, I'm starting with this one, but with some luck I'll be able to switch Go2Linux here too. What I want to learn is how to create different blogs in sub-directories. So, this is an experiment to do that. ####Conclusion#### I really lov… https://www.garron.me/en/blog/My-first-post-using-Jekyll.html https://www.garron.me/en/blog/My-first-post-using-Jekyll.html Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 ##Introduction## I'm really thinking about changing my newly created personal blog, from Wordpress to Jekyll. So, I have installed it and I'll start to test it, in this sandbox first. Let's see how it goes. What I want is: Something simple (not always easy) Less possible things to break Fast enough … https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/remove-spaces-file-names-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/remove-spaces-file-names-linux.html Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. I've been using this line to remove spaces from file names in Linux. Usually… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/varnishlog-filter-records-debugging.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/varnishlog-filter-records-debugging.html Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Varnish Logs Varnish is a powerful reverse proxy that can balance the load o… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/use-varnish-avoid-hot-linking-or-image-leeching.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/use-varnish-avoid-hot-linking-or-image-leeching.html Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction Hot Linking From Wikipedia we have: The technology behind the W… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/secure-apache-and-php-hide-version-numbers.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/secure-apache-and-php-hide-version-numbers.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction You may be concerned about security on your LAMP server, and yo… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/wordpress-dashboard-problem-ajax-css-and-javascript.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/wordpress-dashboard-problem-ajax-css-and-javascript.html Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction I'm still kind of playing with http://garron.me and for the las… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/farewell-microsoft.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/farewell-microsoft.html Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Disclaimer: This is based on my own experience, and your needs and experienc… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/varnish-and-virtual-hosts-configuration-apache-and-nginx.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/varnish-and-virtual-hosts-configuration-apache-and-nginx.html Mon, 27 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction If you want to use Varnish with Virtual Hosts, you may face the… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/instantiation-failed-module-eap.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/instantiation-failed-module-eap.html Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction The other day while trying to install freeradius on a Linux ser… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/fail2ban-protect-web-server-http-dos-attack.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/fail2ban-protect-web-server-http-dos-attack.html Sun, 29 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. DOS attack Denial of service attacks are meant to load a server to a level w… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/restart-sshd-linux-service-daemon.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/restart-sshd-linux-service-daemon.html Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction This is an easy one, but anyway if someone, sometime need it, I… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/restart-sshd-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/restart-sshd-linux.html Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. If you ever need to restart the secure shell (ssh) service on Linux, you nee… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/configure-varnish-logs-varnishnsca-logrotate-and-awstats.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/configure-varnish-logs-varnishnsca-logrotate-and-awstats.html Sun, 01 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction Varnish Varnish is a reverse cache server: Varnish is an HTTP a… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/nginx-varnish-vs-nginx-alone-compared.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/nginx-varnish-vs-nginx-alone-compared.html Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Spanish version Introduction While checking the referrals to my page, I have… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/save-android-battery-tasker.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/save-android-battery-tasker.html Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction Battery duration is a concern to all smart phone users, well ma… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/format-usb-drive-fat32-file-system-ubuntu-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/format-usb-drive-fat32-file-system-ubuntu-linux.html Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction For all Linux users, work with usb drives, is really easy, and … https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/my-top-five-ssh-tips-and-tricks-small-cheatsheet.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/my-top-five-ssh-tips-and-tricks-small-cheatsheet.html Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction Today I’ll give you five nice ssh tricks, well actually three s… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/rsync-backup-linux-using-rsync-to-backup-files-or-folder-under-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/rsync-backup-linux-using-rsync-to-backup-files-or-folder-under-linux.html Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. ###Introduction From Wikipedia: rsync is a software application for Unix and… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/share-files-windows-linux-samba-no-password.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/share-files-windows-linux-samba-no-password.html Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction There are a lot of ways to share files between Linux and Window… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-use-find-boolean-operators-and-or-not.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-use-find-boolean-operators-and-or-not.html Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction In these days when disk are everyday bigger and bigger as well … https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/vim-search-and-replace-tips.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/vim-search-and-replace-tips.html Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction In every document editing software search and replace is a desi… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/limit-idle-ssh-sessions-time-avoid-unattended-clientaliveinterval-clientalivecountmax.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/limit-idle-ssh-sessions-time-avoid-unattended-clientaliveinterval-clientalivecountmax.html Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction One of the best security advice is to keep strong passwords, bu… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/sysctl-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/sysctl-linux.html Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction Let’s first define what sysctl is, and I usually go to Wikipedi… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/find-string-recursive-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/find-string-recursive-linux.html Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction Sometimes you remember a phrase or a given word or words, you p… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-enable-ip-forwarding-linux-slackware-ubuntu-debian-fedora.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-enable-ip-forwarding-linux-slackware-ubuntu-debian-fedora.html Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Spanish version Introduction If you want to use a Linux Operating System dri… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/classifying-linux-distributions.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/classifying-linux-distributions.html Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction This is somehow my personal classification, of Linux distributi… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-upgrade-debian-lenny-squeeze-5-6.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-upgrade-debian-lenny-squeeze-5-6.html Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction Updated 02/15/2011 Please be sure to read the release notes for… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/vboxmanage-control-and-manage-virtualbox-command-line.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/vboxmanage-control-and-manage-virtualbox-command-line.html Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Spanish version Introduction VirtualBox is according to developers: VirtualB… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/kill-not-responding-application-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/kill-not-responding-application-linux.html Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction I’ve seen this very few times in Linux, but yes sometimes it ha… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/get-slack.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/get-slack.html Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. If you follow this blog, you know that I’ve been using Slackware for more or… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-setup-dns-server-master-slave-bind.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-setup-dns-server-master-slave-bind.html Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. #####How to setup a DNS server master / slave BIND##### Domain Name System (… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/debian-review.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/debian-review.html Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction Debian is one of the oldest Linux distributions, it was created… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/replicate-file-permissions.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/replicate-file-permissions.html Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction You may know how to change file permissions using chmod but, if… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-many-processes-each-user-running-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-many-processes-each-user-running-linux.html Mon, 20 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction How to know how many processes each user is running?, there are… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-install-linux-kernel-headers-debian-or-ubuntu.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-install-linux-kernel-headers-debian-or-ubuntu.html Wed, 08 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Since a long time not using it I tried to use VMware again today with my Deb… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-find-which-process-eating-ram-memory-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-find-which-process-eating-ram-memory-linux.html Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction If you are running out of RAM on your Linux system, you will wa… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/nginx-create-custom-404-page-not-found-error-page.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/nginx-create-custom-404-page-not-found-error-page.html Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction I'm working with Nginx since more than a year ago, it is an ext… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-block-lock-or-deny-access-user-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-block-lock-or-deny-access-user-linux.html Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction If you need to block a user and do not allow him / her to log i… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-find-open-ports-servers-your-network-linux-nmap.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-find-open-ports-servers-your-network-linux-nmap.html Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction There are situations when you want to find a web server, or the… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/interview-debian-developer-raphael-hertzog-ubuntu-beneficial-debian.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/interview-debian-developer-raphael-hertzog-ubuntu-beneficial-debian.html Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Interview with Raphaël Hertzog Today I’m presenting you my first interview, … https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/cmatrix-the-matrix-screen-linux-terminal.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/cmatrix-the-matrix-screen-linux-terminal.html Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. For those of you who have not seen The Matrix, here is something from Wikipe… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/privacy-erase-blanck-or-wipe-your-disk-or-usb-memory-stick.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/privacy-erase-blanck-or-wipe-your-disk-or-usb-memory-stick.html Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction We all use usb thumb memories, or memory cards like SD or micro… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/bash-for-loop-break-continue-sintax.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/bash-for-loop-break-continue-sintax.html Sat, 20 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. There are cases in which you may want to break the execution of a bash for l… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/ssh-sudo-run-commands-remote-server.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/ssh-sudo-run-commands-remote-server.html Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. If you need to run a command on a remote server via ssh, you can create a ps… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/slackware-review.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/slackware-review.html Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Slackware Linux Review — Current version 13.1 Introduction From Wikipedia: S… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/are-there-too-many-linux-distributions.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/are-there-too-many-linux-distributions.html Sun, 31 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. From time to time, I can read an article stating that there are too many Lin… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/mkfs-vfat-and-mkfs-ntfs-arch-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/mkfs-vfat-and-mkfs-ntfs-arch-linux.html Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. mkfs.vfat is used to format a file system using the FAT32 file system. Usual… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/gnu-gcc-development-tools-linux-fedora-arch-debian.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/gnu-gcc-development-tools-linux-fedora-arch-debian.html Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction If you plan to use your computer to develop software, or simply… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/hotot-gwibber-social-network-client.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/hotot-gwibber-social-network-client.html Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Gwibber is a client for Linux that support various social Networks, we will … https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/send-mail-gmail-mutt.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/send-mail-gmail-mutt.html Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. If you are like me, you really like the command line. And sending email whil… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/ubuntu-1010-maverick-meerkat-best-10-reviews.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/ubuntu-1010-maverick-meerkat-best-10-reviews.html Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Today is somehow a special day, today is 10.10.10, and no matter which date … https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/ssh-public-key-only-login-authentication.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/ssh-public-key-only-login-authentication.html Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Open SSH private/public authentication OpenSSH key public key authentication… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/convert-html-pdf-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/convert-html-pdf-linux.html Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. When you may need to convert a complete web page in html to a pdf file, Linu… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/disagree-with-libreoffice.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/disagree-with-libreoffice.html Thu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. By the time of this writing, a lot has been said about this topic, and you s… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/new-branch-on-debian.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/new-branch-on-debian.html Tue, 05 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Today I have read a post from Raphael Hertzog, taking about the possibility … https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/two-new-linux-distributions-i-have-tested.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/two-new-linux-distributions-i-have-tested.html Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Some days ago I have started testing Linux Mint Debian Edition and Archbang.… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/movable-type-vs-drupal-with-boost.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/movable-type-vs-drupal-with-boost.html Mon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. As I have posted some days ago, I am trying Movable Type as an alternative t… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/arch-linux-review.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/arch-linux-review.html Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction Arch Linux is yet another Linux distribution. By the time of th… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/movable-type.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/movable-type.html Sat, 02 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. I have been blogging for some time, I have started in 2007. Even tough I hav… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/quo-vadis-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/quo-vadis-linux.html Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. I was trying to figure out a topic to write about. I usually focus on Tutori… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/client-denied-by-server-configuration-apache-error.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/client-denied-by-server-configuration-apache-error.html Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Yesterday night, while installing Movable Type on a test server, I made a mi… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/first-post-on-movabletype-platform.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/first-post-on-movabletype-platform.html Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Edit: 11/19/2010 I’ve decided to leave Open Melody or Movable Type, and stic… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/share-files-easy-python-php.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/share-files-easy-python-php.html Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. If you want to share a file from your Linux with other users, the easiest wa… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/uuid-linux-fstab-file.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/uuid-linux-fstab-file.html Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. UUID stands for Universally Unique IDentifier and it is used in Linux to ide… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/ssh-login-no-password.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/ssh-login-no-password.html Sun, 25 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Dictionary attacks as described in Wikipedia are: In cryptanalysis and compu… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/nginx-gzip_static-ubuntu.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/nginx-gzip_static-ubuntu.html Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. How to compile Nginx with gzip static (gzip_static) compression support on D… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-benchmark-stress-your-apache-nginx-or-iis-server.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-benchmark-stress-your-apache-nginx-or-iis-server.html Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. When your run a webserver, which could be Apache, Nginx or Lighttpd, you may… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/add-second-ip-linux-ubuntu-etc-network-interfaces.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/add-second-ip-linux-ubuntu-etc-network-interfaces.html Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. There are situations when you want or need a second IP on your box, for exam… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/ls-file-permissions.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/ls-file-permissions.html Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. There is a command I use a lot and it is ls -l The -l switch turns on long l… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/nginx-gzip-static-arch-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/nginx-gzip-static-arch-linux.html Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Nginx is a web server / proxy server, according to Wikipedia, this is the de… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/query-cache-mysql-size-limit-tunning-hit-rate.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/query-cache-mysql-size-limit-tunning-hit-rate.html Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. In order to increase the performance of MySQL server, query_cache may be tur… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/clean-cancel-printer-queue-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/clean-cancel-printer-queue-linux.html Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. How to clear a print queue (spooler) in Linux It may happen that you have se… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-install-nslookup-arch-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-install-nslookup-arch-linux.html Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. If you work with Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora, as soon as you have your default … https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/arch-linux-pacman-proxy.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/arch-linux-pacman-proxy.html Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. If you need to install or update an Arch Linux package and you are behing a … https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/last-user-login-history.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/last-user-login-history.html Sat, 25 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. last is another command for the system admin tool box, it displays the login… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/review-arch-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/review-arch-linux.html Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction Arch Linux is a bleeding edge Linux Distribution, that is mainl… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-find-the-fastest-archlinux-mirrors.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-find-the-fastest-archlinux-mirrors.html Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. This tip is in the ArchLinux Beginners Guide, but I have thought it was a go… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/upgrade-update-arch-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/upgrade-update-arch-linux.html Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. I am using ArchLinux for some weeks now, I have installed it on my IBM/Lenov… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/useradd-vs-adduser-ubuntu-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/useradd-vs-adduser-ubuntu-linux.html Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Updated: 2012-11-29 You may have been using useradd or adduser to add new us… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-configure-ip-default-gateway-dns-linux-command-line.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-configure-ip-default-gateway-dns-linux-command-line.html Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. There are some networks where DHCP is not yet implemented, and when you ente… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/ps-running-process-on-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/ps-running-process-on-linux.html Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. ps, is a Linux command tool, that lets you view the current running processe… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/ctrl-z-stop-restart-linux-jobs.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/ctrl-z-stop-restart-linux-jobs.html Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. A really good shortcut is [Ctrl+z], which stops a currently running job, whi… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-kill-users-processes.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-kill-users-processes.html Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. The other day a friend of mine was asking me how to stop all users’ processe… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-use-wall-to-send-broadcast-message-on-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-use-wall-to-send-broadcast-message-on-linux.html Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Sometimes as the administrator of a Linux Operating System Server, y may nee… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/whowatch-monitor-who-is-doing-what-on-your-Linux-machine.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/whowatch-monitor-who-is-doing-what-on-your-Linux-machine.html Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. whowatch is a console application that lets you monitor what different users… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/which-service-or-program-listening-port.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/which-service-or-program-listening-port.html Mon, 19 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. It is really important to know which ports are open in your PC, this is not … https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/limit-rate-resume-downloads-wget.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/limit-rate-resume-downloads-wget.html Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. wget is a command line tool used to download files, or complete webpages, it… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/traffic-monitor-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/traffic-monitor-linux.html Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. It is always useful to know how much bandwidth you are using, also to check … https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/trim-cut-join-split-mp3-files-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/trim-cut-join-split-mp3-files-linux.html Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Some months ago I have posted an article showing how to use audacity to edit… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-install-startx.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-install-startx.html Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Today, I was "playing" with the Linux configuration (as usually) and using t… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-configure-cpufreq.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-configure-cpufreq.html Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. cpufreqd is a Linux daemon, that lets you control the speed of your CPU(s), … https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/nmap-command-graph-front-end-port-scan.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/nmap-command-graph-front-end-port-scan.html Wed, 02 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Introduction nmap is a wonderful tool specially for debugging, there are lot… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/laptop-battery-status-with-linux-console-command-acpi.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/laptop-battery-status-with-linux-console-command-acpi.html Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Linux console brings acpi to us to check the status our Laptop battery, righ… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/rename-bulk-files-with-linux-console-command.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/rename-bulk-files-with-linux-console-command.html Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. We are going to explore different ways to change names of multiple files usi… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/what-is-my-public-ip-command-line.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/what-is-my-public-ip-command-line.html Sat, 29 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Lots of times you need to determine your public IP address, if you are using… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/the-origin-of-debian-name-and-code-names.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/the-origin-of-debian-name-and-code-names.html Fri, 14 Dec 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. The Debian project founded on 1993 by Ian Murdock was named that way because… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/create-ringtones-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/create-ringtones-linux.html Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. We all know that you can use any mp3 file as a ringtone in your phone, but s… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-use-find-command-linux-mac-examples.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-use-find-command-linux-mac-examples.html Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. These are 10 useful uses of the command find in Linux, they are not the most… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/configure-error-c-compiler-cannot-create-executables.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/configure-error-c-compiler-cannot-create-executables.html Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Today I have tried to compile a software in a Debian Linux machine, when I r… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-transfer-files-bluetooth-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-transfer-files-bluetooth-linux.html Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Today I have bought a cheap Msi Star Key Bluetooth USB DongleUSB Bluetooth d… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/wget-limit-rate-recursive-tips-tricks.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/wget-limit-rate-recursive-tips-tricks.html Tue, 30 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. ####Tips and Tricks of wget When you ever need to download a pdf, jpg, png o… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/boost-your-internet-browsing-install-polipo.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/boost-your-internet-browsing-install-polipo.html Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Polipo is a Linux proxy, like squid but it is intended in a personal use, I … https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/pdnsd-bind-caching-server-to-boost-browsing-speed.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/pdnsd-bind-caching-server-to-boost-browsing-speed.html Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Some days ago while I was on a business trip, and trying to work in the Hote… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/clean-linux-kernel-images-grub.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/clean-linux-kernel-images-grub.html Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. For Distros with lots of Kernel upgrades Like Ubuntu Gutsy now that it is st… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/fail2ban-secure-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/fail2ban-secure-linux.html Wed, 10 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Starting this year I posted about DenyHosts, which is a must have tool to av… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/sabayon-linux-review.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/sabayon-linux-review.html Mon, 08 Oct 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. The other day I met Gentoo, I tried to install it, and finally did it after … https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-set-date-and-time-linux.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/how-to-set-date-and-time-linux.html Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. How important is time for Linux Lots of the task your Linux machine are cont… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/head-linux-show-display-beginning-of-file.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/head-linux-show-display-beginning-of-file.html Fri, 04 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Sometimes you may want to take a look at a file, only to the first lines of … https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/find-Linux-command-to-find-files-on-your-disk.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/find-Linux-command-to-find-files-on-your-disk.html Fri, 04 May 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. If you need to find files in your disk, you have two command lines options (… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/wc-command-to-count-lines-and-words.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/wc-command-to-count-lines-and-words.html Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. There are a lot of useful tools in Linux and wc is one of them, this tool le… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/debian-ubuntu-centos-fedora-comparison.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/debian-ubuntu-centos-fedora-comparison.html Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Hello, I will try today to share my little experience on using Linux, the di… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/sendmail-exim-smarthost.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/sendmail-exim-smarthost.html Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Smarthost for sendmail and/or exim This will describe you how to set up a sm… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/vmware-server-on-debian-etch.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/vmware-server-on-debian-etch.html Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. To install VMware server on Debian Etch (4.0) you first need to have Etch in… https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/fedora-centos-root-password-recovery.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/fedora-centos-root-password-recovery.html Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. When you lost your root password in a RedHat Linux Based systems you should … https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/firewall-linux-script.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/firewall-linux-script.html Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Security is always an Issue in all computer environment and Linux is not an … https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/denyhosts.html https://www.garron.me/en/go2linux/denyhosts.html Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 This post was originally published on go2linux.org, a Linux blog I ran from 2007 to 2011. The domain is no longer mine, but I am the original author. I am republishing it here on garron.me with corrections and improvements. Whenever you need to left open the port 22 for ssh you machine from every wh…