I have a Ubuntu file server with limited storage space. I want to add a USB hard drive to extend its storage space. I did it in the following step. Plug in the USB hard drive to the Ubuntu server After I plugged the USB hard drive, the server was rebooted. Then I check the [...]
Google just published a new open source system programming language, GO. Google claims that it is simple, fast, fun, safe, and concurrent. Source code can be downloaded and compiled. It provides a lot of packages. My first look gave me feeling that it is pretty similar to Java or C#. It is a system language [...]
In GUI environment you can use System > Administration > Services to switch on/off services. In CLI environment you can use rcconf to do the same thing. apt-get install rcconf rcconf For detail information, please refer to the following article. Ubuntu Linux stop / disable GNOME GUI ~ X.org [PDF]
munin is a light weight server monitoring tool. After I read the following two articles I decided to give a try. Here are the links for the articles: Monitor Servers and Clients using Munin in Ubuntu Monitoring systems with munin The setup is a piece of cake. I have a little bit confusion when I [...]
Block junk comments in WordPress
By Zhanshan Dong on November 9th, 2009
Recently I found that there were so many junk or spam comments posted in the site. The possible reason is some spam robots were keeping booming this site. To block the spam comments and reduce the waste of resources, the following settings in Discussion section were selected. Comment author must fill out name and e-mail [...]