If you are using the proxy feature in nginx and am working on valid_referers rule, you need to make sure you have the proxy lines copied into the valid_referers lines.

I have created a public git repository on github for all of my public scripts. Feel free to clone/branch/etc this repository and send in any patches for review. As this is a new repo, it will be growing as many more scripts are added. To clone it and automatically add this repository to your path, [...]

I started working on some new perl scripts and realized that i have not installed the libdbd-oracle-perl package on my desktop since the upgrade. If anyone is looking for how to do this on a Ubuntu Maverick machine ( I know, right before 11.04 comes out but it still worked in the alpha ). First [...]

I have been using MPD for a number of years and have always found it to be reliable. Upon installing it on an ubuntu netbook I discovered a very annoying issue, any other sound causes the default MPD configuration file tends to choke out if another application plays a sound. This does not happen right [...]

After being out of the sysadmin specific position for over a year now, I decided to start building out my lab again and dusting off my skill set. This also comes at a time that I am in the process of designing a new media center solution for a family member. I remember playing around [...]