July 2009 Archives
Fri Jul 31 12:01:44 EEST 2009
Microsoft buys Yahoo
I've just red on technews.bg the sad news. Microsoft buys
out Yahoo. The full absorption of Yahoo would happen in the coming
10 years. The yahoo search engine platform is to be changed by
Microsoft's Bing and the Microsoft AdCenter platform. It should be
expected that this of course will have it's negative implication on
FreeBSD considering the fact that Yahoo's web services are based
heavily on FreeBSD. The FreeBSD project is probably about to loose
many of it's testers in the face of the Yahoo developers ..
Thu Jul 30 19:21:46 EEST 2009
Cool Ascii Games for Linux and BSD
I myself am a big gamer since my
youth. Being a Linux evangelist for quite some time as well as a
BSD geek I had my period of interest into how developed are the
available games for Unix based operating systems. In that manner of
thoughts I got interested into the ascii games available for Linux
and BSD. It's really fun to play a bunch of games every now and
then via SSH or simply to play on your TTY. Currently I have
installed the following list of Ascii games on my FreeBSD
box:
Install them and have a lot of fun
adventure battlestar cfscores hack nethack primes snake wtf alienwave bb cribbage hangman number quiz snscore wump arithmetic bcd dosbox larn phantasia random strfile xrick arkanoid.sed bs factor mille piano robots teachgammon ascii_invaders bsdtris fish moon-buggy pig rogue trek atc caesar fortune morse pom rot13 unstr backgammon canfield grdc nInvaders ppt sail worm
Install them and have a lot of fun
Thu Jul 30 16:52:45 EEST 2009
Adding Comments & Google search plugins to nanoblogger
Ever wondered how you can add
comments option to nanoblogger just like any normal blogging
software like wordpress do support? Cause I did, Today I wandered
around in google a bit until I can make it. In order to make all
this workable I choose the nbcom nanoblogger plugin. Here's what
led me to success. First prepare yourself to loose a couple of
hours! It's more complicated or at least it was more complicated
than I expected to add a simple plugin as this. Second, You'll need
the following nbcom 1.1 archive
.
Right after that you'll need to untar it and rename hdrs.tmpl and consts.tmpl to *.php, edit them and remove all the unneeded "/" back slashes. Copy the content of nbcom-1.1 dir to the document root of your nanoblogger. Make sure to edit blog.conf and have all the necessary like BLOG_URL, BLOG_ADMIN="session", DB_PASS="password_of_sql_user_session", yes I forgot to mention that you'll need to read the INSTALL file contained in the nbcom archive and follow the instructions for creation of user and database that nbcom would use in the future. There are described like 7+ files more you need to edit and if you're lucky like I was you'll have nanoblogger+comments support up and running! Hooray! Wish you Good luck.
Secondly probably you have wondered how to make nanoblogger has a normal search field just like any normal php based blogger software out there. It took me like an hour before I came to the enlightenment. First I had downloaded the google.sh script mirrored for you to make your life easier here .
Next copy the file to your nanoblogger plugins directory.
And last you have to edit the templates/main_index.htm file and add the content that is as commented in the google.sh file. If you're lucky again you'll have nanoblogger with this two valuable plugins working. Enjoy
Right after that you'll need to untar it and rename hdrs.tmpl and consts.tmpl to *.php, edit them and remove all the unneeded "/" back slashes. Copy the content of nbcom-1.1 dir to the document root of your nanoblogger. Make sure to edit blog.conf and have all the necessary like BLOG_URL, BLOG_ADMIN="session", DB_PASS="password_of_sql_user_session", yes I forgot to mention that you'll need to read the INSTALL file contained in the nbcom archive and follow the instructions for creation of user and database that nbcom would use in the future. There are described like 7+ files more you need to edit and if you're lucky like I was you'll have nanoblogger+comments support up and running! Hooray! Wish you Good luck.
Secondly probably you have wondered how to make nanoblogger has a normal search field just like any normal php based blogger software out there. It took me like an hour before I came to the enlightenment. First I had downloaded the google.sh script mirrored for you to make your life easier here .
Next copy the file to your nanoblogger plugins directory.
And last you have to edit the templates/main_index.htm file and add the content that is as commented in the google.sh file. If you're lucky again you'll have nanoblogger with this two valuable plugins working. Enjoy
Thu Jul 30 15:35:35 EEST 2009
Internet Reklama i Marketing (Internet advertisement and Marketing)
An interesting place for articles
related to Internet Reklama i Marketing (as stated in Bulgarian) is
a blog if a friend of mine. Check Internet Reklama i Marketing
arketing.atsense.com
Wed Jul 29 19:40:50 EEST 2009
Popular SEO extensions for SEO masters
I've across a nice Article dedicated
to assist SEO masters's daily life via some helpful Firefox
extensions. The article is called "Popular SEO extensions for SEO
masters" and can be red on
the following address . Hope you enjoy it.
Wed Jul 29 19:32:15 EEST 2009
wordpress & awstats
I'm planning to bring up a website
for remote system administration for quite some time 'till now. A
couple of days before I've installed wordpress and used the
monochrome theme in combination with a couple of plugins. I've used
the Wordpress, "Contact Form 7" plugin. I struggled around for a
day before I realize the way it's beeing embeded into the Page
post. Amri (Marto) a friend of mine helped me up with the whole
deal, it came to be as simple as simply adding [contact-form 1 "My
feedback" to one of the pages I've created in wordpress. There were
a bunch of things on my newly created wordpress blog that looked
more like a blog than a page which was not my initial goal and
therefore I had to remove some chunks of code from some of the php
files that came with the monochrome theme. I've partially used a
guide called
"How to create Websites using Wordpress" which probably would be of an interest to you if you're trying to make wordpress look more like a website than a blog, check it out here . Amri suggested few plugins that would add up to my current wordpress installation.
This are:
Cyr2Lat Slugs
Google XML Sitemaps Generates sitemap.xml. Gives an option to setup Google WebMaster Tools and in that manner of thoughts ads up for faster indexing of the blog
All In One SEO pack - SEO instrument that optimizes your wordpress
Belavir - Tracks the changes in files in wordpress.
In my case I couldn't make the Google XML Sitemap work correctly. Probably because I've removed bits of php code from some main php pages. Anyways I was able to make my wordpress look like a normal website and in general it might be said that it looks quite decent now if I have to compare it with my previous websites I've built like let's say my home page pc-freak.net . I've plans to deliver remote system administration services to the masses via my Yet Another Cheap System Administration Services.
I've also installed awstats on the pcfreak box currently running on a nice foxy IBM machine. To properly install and run the Awstats I've used fractions from the article Install Awstats on FreeBSD . What was different in my case was:
1. I had to cd /usr/ports/www/awstats/work/awstats-6.9/tools/; run ./awstats_configure.pl. Answer a couple of questions. I've initially installed awstats configurations to /etc/awstats after which I've moved it to /usr/local/etc/awstats .
2. I had to create /var/lib/awstats where awstats stores it's database files: mkdir /var/lib/awstats
3. I had to link awstats to the location where my cgi-bin dir was set up by httpd.conf: ln -sf /usr/local/www/awstats/cgi-bin/ /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/awstats
4. I had to create a link to make the awstats icons visualize: ln -sf /usr/local/www/awstats/icons /usr/local/www/data/awstatsicons
5. I had to edit my conf file and align it with my desires, most important to note is the requirement to change the location to my Apache log file in my case that was /var/log/httpd-access.log: Change LogFile value in /usr/local/etc/awstats/awstats.pc-freak.net.conf I've changed it to LogFile="/var/log/httpd-access.log"
6. Next I had to execute the following to generate statistics for my domain pc-freak.net: /usr/local/www/awstats/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -update -config=pc-freak.net
7. Edit the root user crontab (crontab -u root -e) and paste the following : 01 0 * * * /usr/local/www/awstats/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -update -config=pc-freak.net 2>&1 >/dev/null 8. Change the default Directory settings for /usr/local/www/cgi-bin. Had to changed them to the following
9. After that I've protected my awstats with a pass putting /usr/local/awstats/cgi-bin/.htaccess file containing the following
10. And last but not least, had to create the myawstats.passwd with the following command: htpasswd -c /usr/local/etc/apache2/myawstats.passwd admin
Right after I happily accessed my newly installed awstats via my domain http://pc-freak.net/cgi-bin/awstats/awstats.pl
"How to create Websites using Wordpress" which probably would be of an interest to you if you're trying to make wordpress look more like a website than a blog, check it out here . Amri suggested few plugins that would add up to my current wordpress installation.
This are:
Cyr2Lat Slugs
Google XML Sitemaps Generates sitemap.xml. Gives an option to setup Google WebMaster Tools and in that manner of thoughts ads up for faster indexing of the blog
All In One SEO pack - SEO instrument that optimizes your wordpress
Belavir - Tracks the changes in files in wordpress.
In my case I couldn't make the Google XML Sitemap work correctly. Probably because I've removed bits of php code from some main php pages. Anyways I was able to make my wordpress look like a normal website and in general it might be said that it looks quite decent now if I have to compare it with my previous websites I've built like let's say my home page pc-freak.net . I've plans to deliver remote system administration services to the masses via my Yet Another Cheap System Administration Services.
I've also installed awstats on the pcfreak box currently running on a nice foxy IBM machine. To properly install and run the Awstats I've used fractions from the article Install Awstats on FreeBSD . What was different in my case was:
1. I had to cd /usr/ports/www/awstats/work/awstats-6.9/tools/; run ./awstats_configure.pl. Answer a couple of questions. I've initially installed awstats configurations to /etc/awstats after which I've moved it to /usr/local/etc/awstats .
2. I had to create /var/lib/awstats where awstats stores it's database files: mkdir /var/lib/awstats
3. I had to link awstats to the location where my cgi-bin dir was set up by httpd.conf: ln -sf /usr/local/www/awstats/cgi-bin/ /usr/local/www/cgi-bin/awstats
4. I had to create a link to make the awstats icons visualize: ln -sf /usr/local/www/awstats/icons /usr/local/www/data/awstatsicons
5. I had to edit my conf file and align it with my desires, most important to note is the requirement to change the location to my Apache log file in my case that was /var/log/httpd-access.log: Change LogFile value in /usr/local/etc/awstats/awstats.pc-freak.net.conf I've changed it to LogFile="/var/log/httpd-access.log"
6. Next I had to execute the following to generate statistics for my domain pc-freak.net: /usr/local/www/awstats/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -update -config=pc-freak.net
7. Edit the root user crontab (crontab -u root -e) and paste the following : 01 0 * * * /usr/local/www/awstats/cgi-bin/awstats.pl -update -config=pc-freak.net 2>&1 >/dev/null 8. Change the default Directory settings for /usr/local/www/cgi-bin. Had to changed them to the following
Directory "/usr/local/www/cgi-bin"
AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit Indexes
Options FollowSymLinks ExecCGI
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
/Directory
9. After that I've protected my awstats with a pass putting /usr/local/awstats/cgi-bin/.htaccess file containing the following
AuthType Basic AuthName "Restricted Access" AuthUserFile /usr/local/etc/apache2/myawstats.passwd Require user admin
10. And last but not least, had to create the myawstats.passwd with the following command: htpasswd -c /usr/local/etc/apache2/myawstats.passwd admin
Right after I happily accessed my newly installed awstats via my domain http://pc-freak.net/cgi-bin/awstats/awstats.pl
Sun Jul 26 16:11:00 EEST 2009
A movie worthy to see
Two days ago I've downloaded a movie
really worthy to see. The movie is russian and is named Ostrov (An
Island). It's a fictionary movie about a 20th century Eastern
Orthodox monk whose warm prayer possesses miraculous powers and has
a clairvoyance gift from God. Moreover the guy is living his all
life with a guilt of a murder he was forced to commit in his early
days during the WW2. I've watched the movie twice for the last 2
days I was so inspired. Yesterday Order (Ivo) a friend of mine from
Varna was a guest of mine so I was quite happy. Today we first went
for a holy Liturgy in the morning with Static and another friend of
Static known under the name (Duf) into the temple Holy Trinity here
in Dobrich. Right after the church service we've collected Ivo from
home cause he was still sleeping and went for a drink Together with
Amridikon. Quite a nice time. Now I'm back home blogging. I haven't
used beryl for quite some time and I started using it since a
couple of days and I have to say it's quite handy to use. Two days
ago I've also watched the new Terminator movie (Salvation) to
generalize it ain't a bad movie if you just want to watch something
with blows and action but still nothing to compare against the
golden Terminator 2 (Judgement Day). This is mostly how my days are
passing by. Thanks be to God for everything!
Wed Jul 22 16:59:33 EEST 2009
A fix for problem with FreeBSD php pcre & qmail installation
Few weeks ago I came around a problem
with the php installed on my FreeBSD box seems like a shitty error
occured when I tried to install squirrelmail as well as joomla. The
following Warning message showed up every time I tried to access
some of the scripts of the aforementioned ones.
I looked for a solution and it seemed the solution was as simple as adding "-with-pcre-regex=yes" to the Makefile of /usr/ports/lang/php5 a recompile and hooray pcre works correctly! Another problem I faced was with a qmail+vpopmail installation which seemed not to recognize the existence of some email addresses in the vpopmail installation. The cause for that was that my /var/qmail/control/locals was containing the name contained also in /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains. Simply removing the domain from locals and restarting qmail did the trick. Apart from all that I remembered an interesting website which you might find interesting to visit, a video from it was suggested by Sha'nar (Hope he had a safe journey to God). Here is thewebsiteisdown itself. Yes this days I'm mostly bored and in a spiritual roaming ... Anyways thanks and glory be to God for his mercies on me.
"[Thu Jun 11 20:39:15 2009] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] PHP Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Internal pcre_fullinfo() error -3 in somefile.php on line 169 [Thu Jun 11 20:39:15 2009] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] PHP Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-replace]: Internal pcre_fullinfo() error -3 in somefile.php on line 275 "
I looked for a solution and it seemed the solution was as simple as adding "-with-pcre-regex=yes" to the Makefile of /usr/ports/lang/php5 a recompile and hooray pcre works correctly! Another problem I faced was with a qmail+vpopmail installation which seemed not to recognize the existence of some email addresses in the vpopmail installation. The cause for that was that my /var/qmail/control/locals was containing the name contained also in /var/qmail/control/virtualdomains. Simply removing the domain from locals and restarting qmail did the trick. Apart from all that I remembered an interesting website which you might find interesting to visit, a video from it was suggested by Sha'nar (Hope he had a safe journey to God). Here is thewebsiteisdown itself. Yes this days I'm mostly bored and in a spiritual roaming ... Anyways thanks and glory be to God for his mercies on me.
Mon Jul 20 18:11:07 EEST 2009
A feast of saint martyr Marina
On friday I and a bus full of other
brothers and sisters (most of them ladies above 60 yrs old) been to
the monastery near Botevo. For the big feast and the district
gathering many priests as well as the Varna mitropolit attended the
liturgy. On my way in the Church I've met a nice gentle looking
father who was anointing the insiders I even asked for his blessing
later on I realized he is a monk for already 11 years if I recall
correctly. In the Church service I was helping with the liturgy
preparations unwittingly I spilled some of the oil one of the altar
stick was handling one of the priests got really angry with me, it
was ridiculous the reaction not really fitting his priesthood. But
anyways ... the service was led by metropolit Kiril a metropolitan
of the Varna and Velikopreslav districts. I was feeling spiritually
not so well during the church service the same has happened to me
to the previous liturgy with metropolit Kiril I've red online for
some frauds he was involved in no idea if that is true anyways God
would know best. After the liturgy there was some food for free
fish soup even though it was friday a day for fasting fish is
allowed on feasts. I've met two monks and a guy who was a novice
preparing to be ordained as a monk on the next day as well as a nun
who happened to be a Macedonian and couldn't speak Bulgarian. After
the Church service I was shocked by the behaviour of the same monk
who blessed me during I entered the church, now he screamed at me
for the fact I was too slowly hauling up the stairs leading to the
little church. I had a few interesting conversations with the
priesthood and the clergy. In general the whole trip and what
happened there disappointed me not to say shakened my faith for
I've seen things like smoking monk, a priest whose looking appeared
like he is demon infestedsome other minor things which I cannot
remember anymore.. In the evening I met nomen who just came back
from Sofia for the weekend. We was out for a beer with him Alex and
Bino. On the day after I and my father and mother went to my
village because somebody had to dig up the vineyeard to clean it up
from the grown weed. It was quite fun to dig around with a hoe.
It's a pity I couldn't shot some pictures for you to see how
literate a sys admin could dig up with a mattock. Nomen came to my
village to pick me up around 4 o'clock. We completed the vineyard
clean up around 6 and was in Dobrich around 19:30. A bit later in
the evening I went out to meet Nina in the central park. On Sunday
I was to a Church service in the Holy Trinity temple afterwards I
and Nina drinked coffee on the fountain. In the early afternoon I
went to the church again cause friends mine was wedding (Katia and
Vlado), may God bless them with long joint life together. In the
late afternoon Bino came home and I him and Nina went out for a
drink on the "fountain". Just to sum it up. I'm do thank my God for
his aboundant everyday mercies.
Wed Jul 15 19:02:37 EEST 2009
Sha'Nar or Niki a beloved friend of mine is gone :((((((((((
It's still unreal to me. Anyways I
have to cope with that somehow. Yesterday was one of my best
friends burial (Nikolay Paskalev). His departure from this earth
was something shocking both for me and for many close friends ...
Last I went to his home on Saturday. We even played a bit of Teken
on his Playstation 2 as well as we watched a movie of Angry
Nintento Video game nerd. His health condition has worsened
recently. I didn't really realize his condition was so severe. On
Monday it seems his breathing problems and his general condition
was critical so he and his mother went to the hospital to check his
heart. The cardiology results were terrible, his doctor called an
ambulance and he was hospitalized. In the ambulance the doctors
decided to gave him some kind of pills to calm him down to help him
breath more easily... As a result Niki slipped into a deep sleep a
coma and then his heart dropped operation completely. Nomen called
me in around 3:30 or 4 and informed me he is in the rehabilitation.
20 or 30 minutes later around 4 he called again and told me Niki is
gone ... I couldn't believe I still really cannot believe and
cannot get used to the fact that I'm not going to see him even more
on earth. He is gone now. Niki has suffered with a terrible
uncommon disease "spinal muscle atrophy". His life was far from
perfect but anyways he never complained. Even in his last days he
just said "I don't fell OK" the last time I saw him on Saturday and
that was it. He even wouldn't share that he felt physically bad if
I haven't asked about it. I know him since he was a child, I know
him for maybe 10 years and now he is gone to the place that's the
best as the Larry Norman sings in "Spirit in the Sky". Niki was a
great fan of sci-fi, he posessed an extraordinary intellect for his
age. His competence was in all spheres of knowledge. History as a
subject was a matter of great interest for him. He also was
believing Christian! Many times our goings out for a walk in his
case for a drivewas a great joy for me and I hope him as well. His
English fluency was much better than mine. He had just graduated
11th grade this year. Next year he was supposed to be complete his
study. For a long period he was big fan of World of Warcraft and
devoted gamer in general. He has completed most of the games I even
know. I'll never forget him as a friend and a brother in Christ.
Yesterday during the burial and even though I saw his body in a
coffin I remained called, I'm sure Niki has prayed to the Lord for
us the sinners who stayed on earth. I would say that a grace came
out of his body. As an orthodox christian we believe that his soul
is on a journey to God now. A journey to be completed on the 40th
day after his departure from earth. I pray that Our God and Saviour
Jesus Christ with the Father and the Son in one unite and holy
trinity keep him and grant him eternal joy peace and rest in
heaven! Amen A news is also available in Bergon's forum where he
was quite active. Here is a
link to it . A link to Niki's profile in facebook is
here Some of the pictures we have together are
here . His skype name was: "lunarstill". I know also Niki did
had also a profile in youtube. However I don't have his profile
yet. Asap as I have it I'll try to post it. Today I had a bit of
work even though I haven't had much of it. I wrote two small shell
scripts to help me with my routine administration tasks both of
them are in Memoriam of Niki. The scripts 1st script lists all
emails of a current vpopmail domain and can be seen here under the
name list-domain-emails.sh . The 2nd one lists all the
databases and there sizes in MBs within a MySQL server and can be
seen here:
check-databases-sizes.sh . Niki we miss you man ... And yes
Niki you was a really good guy and a real blessing for us
throughout the time we spend together. Again we won't forget you
Niki!
Sat Jul 11 00:26:37 EEST 2009
Trip To Silistra
Today I was awaken by Nomen and we
had a nice morning banichki :). A bit later I and Nomen went to
Silistra for a nice trip. The go was Nomen's idea. If we do not
count the fact that we did mistakenly taken a wrong route and had
to use the GPS to lead us a bit to find the right way all went
flawless. On our way we visited a village called (Vaznesenie
Gospodne), the Ascension of Christ as it reads in English. In
Silistra We walked around the Danube river and had a drink.
Silistra isn't nothing special as a town in general. On our road
back I used my ultra l337 skills and drived the way home.
Afterwards we went out with Niki (lunarstill) and a had a coffee.
Luckily I haven't experienced problems with servers or anything
unusual today. A little while ago I went to see my grandma as I
usually do in the evening. Yesterday my grandma was experiencing
terrible pains in her legs a consequence of her diabetis disease. I
felt so bad about it and prayed fervently to God to help her.
Apperantly our merciful God (The Holy Trinity) heard my prayers.
Today my grandma feels much better and her legs didn't hurt her so
severely.
Thu Jul 9 01:56:38 EEST 2009
Rotary Steals a fountain in Dobrich
I've red an interesting post in a
forum shedding some light on how rotary club in Dobrich is involved
in stealing a fountain. As it says in Bulgarian "Rotari Krade
Cheshma". The info is in Bulgarian. I've mirrored the story on
pc-freak. Read it Rotari
Krade Cheshma
Wed Jul 8 14:23:17 EEST 2009
tavel to Sofia
Last week I was in Sofia for a full
body diagnosis with a device called Oberon. Of course the device is
a Russian development. Anyways the results received showed that my
health condition ain't so bad even though it's probably necessery
to start some physical exercises. I took a walk in Sofia around the
National Assembly the City Library, The National Theater etc. The
most exciting part of my journey was that I was able to attend the
Russian Church located in blvd. Russia 3, I entered the Church
crypt where Archibishop Seraphim Sobolev's body resides. I was able
to venerate his holy body. It's quite possible that the holy father
Seraphim would be canonized in the short future for I've red many
reports about a miraculous healings and other miracles experienced
by people who asked the holy father for intecessory prayer infront
the Lord. More about the church itself could be red in Bulgarian
language here
. We traveled back to Dobrich with a friend of mine's car Nomen.
The traveling persons with Mitko's car (Honda) was I, my father,
Nasko and Nomen. On the way back I drived twice traveling like 150
km or a bit more. The Weekend was peaceful in overall. This days I
don't have much work probably because most of the people this
wonderful summer days are unto summer holidays. To sum up I do
thank to our Holy Lord the Holy Trinity as well as to the Theotokos
for her constant intercession in front God. To God be the Glory!
Now and unto ages of ages. Amen!