I needed to get some data from existing MSSQL databases with PHP. Connecting to such servers is a bit more tricky than mysql, because the mssql extension from php needs also a correctly configured TDS installation. But we’re lucky, there is an opensource implementation of the tds protocoll called FreeTDS. If you don’t want to [...]
In order to move our Nagios installation from a virtual server to a dedicated hardware machine i installed Debian Lenny on a HP Proliant DL 380 G5. This server has two integrated NICs which can easily be used together as a network bond. So if one way to or from the server failes, the machine [...]
After reading some interesting articles about rxvt-unicode (often called urxvt) I wanted to try it out myself on my Archbox. Installation is quite simple via pacman and further customization can be done be modifying the .Xdefaults fine in your home directory. If you install the rxvt-unicode-256color package the TERM variable will be set to rxvt-256color [...]