Jun 24, 2013
How to Install Ardour 3.2 on Fedora 18
Ardour 3 is the latest version available for the premier DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) for Linux. Unfortunately due to Ardour recently changing to a payment oriented package distribution the Fedora repositories are at release 2.8.6. This is for the built packages, you can build it yourself, which is what we are going to do. There are a few dependencies we need to install as well as a realtime kernel.... read more
Jun 21, 2013
Monitoring Filesystem Events with incron on RHEL 6
Have you ever wanted to know when a file is changed or accessed by the system or user? There is a program that does just that task called Inotify cron (incron). Incron is for monitoring filesystem activity. It consists of a daemon and a table manipulator. You can use it a similar way as the regular cron. The difference is that the inotify cron handles filesystem events rather than time periods incron... read more
Jun 19, 2013
How To Securely Delete Files on Windows
When you delete a file on your Windows system is it really deleted? The answer is no, except if the file is on a SSD (Solid State Drive) which the file is deleted immediately. When you delete a file, it isn’t removed from the hard drive immediately. Instead, the computer marks the area as usable and it can be overwritten in the future. This means that your personal files may remain accessible, even after... read more
Jun 18, 2013
Useful RPM and YUM Commands
RPM and YUM commands are used daily by RHEL/CentOS/Fedora Administrators and sometimes having a few more tricks up you sleeve for getting information from the command line are always handy to have. Listed in this post are 14 useful commands for RPM and YUM. 1. Getting rpm to display architecture This one is a pretty simple tip, and very useful especially for people using x86_64 systems. Just one line in... read more
Jun 11, 2013
How install Apache 2.4 PHP 5.4.16 and MariaDB 5.5.31 on Windows 7
As a followup to my post on How install Apache 2.4 PHP 5.4 and MySQL 5.5.21 on Windows 7, I decided to install the latest Apache 2.4 / PHP 5.4.16 and MariaDB 5.5 with PhPMyAdmin. The difference is using MariaDB and PHP 5.4.16. Apache 2.4 Install First download Apache 2.4.4 from http://www.apachelounge.com/download/ (httpd-2.4.4-win32-ssl_0.9.8.zip) Apache 2.4.4-win32-ssl_0.9.8.zip. Extract the zip and... read more
