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Jul
10
aaron

Enabling SSH on the Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220

Enabling SSH on the Seagate BlackArmor NAS 220 I recently acquired a 6 TB Seagate NAS drive which I am using for nightly backups of my servers, as well as snapshots of several Dropbox accounts. While the web interface on the device isn’t too bad, I wanted a little more control over it, as well as the ability to monitor the device’s health with some custom munin graphs. Here’s how to enable SSH without wiping the drive and installing...
Dec
16
aaron

Why do I use Tropo over Twilio?

Why do I use Tropo over Twilio? Many people keep asking me why I use Tropo instead of Twilio. It seems that Twilio does a great job of getting the word out about their service, so many people end up using them first. But there are a few reasons I’m using Tropo instead. Basically it comes down to features, scalability and support. AIM, Yahoo IM, MSN, Jabber and Twitter! In addition to sending SMSs and calling phone numbers, Tropo...
Dec
8
aaron

Tracking typos of your domain name in Google Analytics

Tracking typos of your domain name in Google Analytics Say you want to register a couple different typos of your domain name, and redirect everyone seamlessly to the correct site. This can be done quite easily in Apache using ServerAlias and a simple RewriteRule. I just registered geoloqui.com after noticing a couple articles linking to it instead of geoloqi.com. But then I thought, wouldn’t it be useful if I could track these typos and see which ones...
Aug
31
aaron

Linux Software RAID and LVM

I wanted to create a RAID 5 array with four 1tb drives. I only have three, but I have a 750gb and 320gb drive lying around. I figured there was probably a way to combine them into a 1tb drive that I could use with the others. Using Linux’s LVM, I can create a logical partition from the two smaller drives as big as the 1tb drive. $ pvdisplay Lists all physical volumes managed by LVM. First we have...
Feb
13
aaron

IMAP Authentication for WordPress 2.7.1

Due to some significant changes to the WordPress authentication mechanism, my original IMAP Authentication plugin stopped working in version 2.7.1. I have updated the plugin to work in 2.7.1. The only difference is that users are no longer automatically created in WordPress if they have a valid IMAP account. I will try to add that back in soon, but for now this will do. Download...

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