The Masonry jQuery plugin is an easy way to stack divs in a nice grid without the usual problem with CSS floats – e.g divs with different heights will not look good beside each other.
In a recent project a client wanted WordPress thumbnails stacked in this way. I first added some code to functions.php in order to set widths and heights to the selected thumbnails. Continue reading
So, over the last couple of weeks I have moved several sites to new locations and publishing platforms which demands some redirects unless you wanna be a SEO killer. The examples below are mostly URLs with query strings which I either want to hide or make prettier. The fourth and fifth examples are quite useful when you want to create human readable URLs for APIs or web services.
Updated 22 November 2011.
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This script is intended for fresh Linux installs to provide support for the LAMP stack running with mod_fcgid instead of the default mod_php Apache module.
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Over the last couple of days I’ve been struggling with getting my dev WordPress environment set up with Varnish (2.1.3) Out of the box with minimal config it provides great speed and hitrate but zero functionality together with the cookie-laden WordPress. So far I have tested a bunch of VCL:s found online but here’s my take (based on practically every nice example found out there). Continue reading
This tutorial applies to servers preconfigured with LAMP (Debian 6, Apache 2, Mysql 5, PHP 5.2). If the LAMP stack is not installed, it’s pretty straightforward to install the respective components via apt-get install. Since the image I’m using has Webmin preinstalled I use it to quickly get started. Continue reading
I’ve tried to find the lyrics and origins to the final piece of the soundtrack for Valkyria, composed by John Ottman. “They’ll remember you” is a stunningly beautiful modern choir piece with references to both Mozart and Monteverdi. Continue reading
To automatically mount a specified volume each time you boot into Fedora, edit the following file:
/etc/fstab
Add the following line at the end depending on volume and mount point:
/dev/sdb1 /var/hda/files/
Save and exit.
(If the volume is formatted with NTFS, use the following syntax instead)
/dev/sdb1 /var/hda/files/ ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
How to mount a drive or volume to be accessible by Amahi home server:
First you need to find out what the volume is called within Fedora. To list the drives recognized by the system type the following in terminal:
ls /dev/sd*
Let’s say you want to mount the volume named “sdb1″, then use:
mount /dev/sdb1 /var/hda/files/myvolume
If the volume you want to mount is an NTFS drive, instead use:
mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /var/hda/files/myvolume
Note that you may need to change priviligies on the mounted drive if you want to download directly from Amahi or copy to it over the network.
When you’ve mounted the volume in /var/files/ you only need to specify the name you gave it to add it as a share in Amahi share settings.
If you want to mount the volume automatically when you boot, read Automount a volume in Fedora.
Here’s how to automatically login to a Fedora Linux box. Useful when you run a headless machine as home server, in my case Amahi Home Server.
Fire up terminal, locally or via SSH and log in as root.
Edit the GDM config file by following file by typing:
nano /etc/gdm/custom.conf
Add the following to the end of the file:
[daemon] TimedLoginEnable=true AutomaticLoginEnable=true AutomaticLogin=yourusername TimedLogin=yourusername TimedLoginDelay=0
Save and exit. On reboot, the machine should autologin with the username you specified.