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Random Day
Feb 18th
Going through my Google accounts I realized that I hadn’t plugged Google Analytics in here in a long time, so now I can get a better idea of where all my visitors are coming from. That’s all I really want to know. (Well, that and what OS and Browser they’re More >
New Look, New Start
Feb 17th
cute little tux
LinuxGurl(dot)com will be turning 2 years old next month (on the 28th of March). Its amazing to think that it has been around this long. Yes, I am human and don’t update like I should, but I am going to try to do better. I am still for More >Another Post About Conky
Feb 12th
After switching around distros for a while, I think I shall stick with Fedora. The biggest change is using yum instead of apt. I’m tempted to created a script that says “hey she really meant yum this instead” but that requires some time. After playing around with wallpapers and configurations More >
‘Tis the Season
Dec 21st
‘Tis the season to relax and enjoy spending time with your family. If you feel the need, give gifts as well. I know that most everyone is feeling a pinch in their wallets, and its hard to be as giving as the commercials and shows tell us we should be. More >
Karmic Slide-Show Breakdown
Nov 1st
Yes, there has been a slide-show type wallpaper(s) for Linux for a while available over at gnome-look.org (Just search for animated under the wallpaper section). But now it comes as one of the options for Karmic (Ubuntu 9.10). The process is a simple one if you want to make your own. More >
Conky, revisited
Oct 10th
With lots of googling and failed attempts, not quite right attempts, and then finnaly the product I was aiming at, I have my conky the way I have been wanting it for months. It consists of 11 different files with 1 calling them all together. (Yes, 12 different files, and More >
A Random Funny Geeky Thing
Sep 4th
originally found here: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Microsoft-Vissa,-Hey-Thats-Ours,–More-Support-Stories.aspx
A few years ago, a common free email provider who we’ll call “Yooha” had an outage on one of their load balanced email servers. Since it was only a problem on accounts tied to that server (and because I was in the middle of a fairly time More >
Adding Virtual Domains — The Easy Way (Ubuntu)
Jun 24th
I wrote this script out of my need for a quick method of adding virtual domains. I hope you find this to be of great use.
create a file named addomain
- sudo vim /usr/bin/adddomain
Place this in your file:
- #!/bin/bash
- #Edit the following e-mail address:
- email="your@email.address"
- ipaddress=`ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk ‘{print $2}’ | sed ‘s/addr://’ | grep .`
- domain=$1
- file="/etc/apache2/sites-available/$domain"
- if [ -z $domain ]; More >
