Wine, the Windows emulator-that's-not-an-emulator for Linux distributions, has a way of maintaining separate Windows systems using the WINEPREFIX and WINEARCH environment variables. While it's a powerful mechanism, it's not so handy to …
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Resilient Ubuntu boot-to-RAM USB stick
(Ubun2RAM) - Updated for 13.10 I love my little-engine-that-could media server machine. It runs incredibly well on hardware from at least two generations ago; it is completely headless; the entire system loads itself into RAM in the form …
WordPress plugin minify Makefile
While working on my first commercial WordPress plugin, the need for build automation finally struck me. The environments in which I do my most development are all driven by Linux, and so I wanted to use a tried, true, and ubiquitous build …
Using cURL for parallel PHP without pcntl_fork
So, you want to do some parallel processing in PHP (alliteration FTW!), but your service provider does not grant you access to the pcntl family of functions*. What do you do? If you're in a *nix environment with access to the curl command …
Kill all shared memory segments in Linux
See update below. I recently whipped up a shell script to kill all (IPC) shared memory segments in Linux for a client on oDesk. He wound up going with another contractor's offer, and so I figured I would post my script here for the …
Send XMPP messages with Perl (from the command line, too!)
I had been looking for a small, simple utility for Windows that could send XMPP messages from the command line for use in various automated tasks and notification processes. I came across sendxmpp as part of the CygWin installation, but …
Help! I can't delete phpMyAdmin's setup.php
I've got a VPS server running Debian 5 "lenny" and recently attempted to perform several software upgrades to bring it up to speed (it had been longer than I care to admit). However, the upgrade for the phpMyAdmin package …
Backup automation and emailing attachments in Linux
Any programmer who's ever been burned by data loss can tell you—you've got to have backups of your work. If it's code, perhaps they use a version control system such as Subversion. If it's something a little less-readily available, such …
Linux: Get size of sub-directores in current directory
Edit: Now that I'm more familiar with the Linux command line, I realize that I was trying to reinvent the wheel. I don't know if I missed this part of the du manpage or what, but the functionality I was looking for is baked in: du -hd 1 …