Posts Tagged ‘Cheers’
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024 
Compact discs (CD's) ain't dead yet but there easy straigh use on free operating systems Linux / FreeBSD / OpenBSD is starting to deteriorate. That is quite normal I guess, as CDs are no longer officially produced or sold for few years in America and there is no Audio CD bookstores, neither in europe and perhaps there are just few in europe, perhaps CD are used somewhere in Africa and Asia, but most modern world has officially buried them.
However as I love old stuff and I had the opportunity, I bought an old Audio CD (fake copy one 🙂 of Judas Priest Screaming for Vengence and the famous Jimi Hendrix (Best Complilation) Experience an improvised shelf-book store selling books by a half deaf aging guy who sells books for years in Dobrich in the center.
And to remember the young years of Rock Roll wanted to play it on my very old but still kicking Lenovo Thinkpad R61 notebook (that is now 16 years old but thanksfully it still works and kicks ass with a Debian GNU / Linux 10 Buster.)
The task is very easy and as I have a Window Maker (Wmaker) on it in order to save myself an extra loading of this a kind of "archaic machine" and tried to play my CDs with everything at hand thus I tried first to play the CD in console with the good old but gold cdplay with which I have played a dozens of Audio CDs back in the days …
# cdplay
just to find out the CD got red and started to roll but I get no sound via the Sound Card 🙁
Next thing, i assumed was the problem might be the pulseaudio process blocking the sound card to be used, preventing cdplay to be able to properly channel the sound to the sound card, that used to be quite of classical problem, if you remember, thus I tried to run the cdplay via the aoss (Wrapper script to facilitate use of alsa oss compatibility library.)
Before using oss of course i've loaded the snd-pcm-oss kernel module, to make the sound blaster be able to use the old obsolete Open Sound System.
# modprobe snd-pcm-oss
# aoss cdplay
Though that aoss trick worked for some programs that used old Open Sound System scheme to output sound, it doesn't unfortunately, at that case.
Strange enough my sound card is properly identified by the Debian Linux and I can play MP3 songs, as well browse videos in youtube and other Internet resources in Firefox and even the pulseaudio process that is running in the background is spitting sounds out of the Notebook Speakers.
The laptop doesn't seem to have any sound driver or Sound Card issues, as I can normally play my old .XM and .MOD sound extension files with the good old mikmod
# mikmod
as well as I can even normally play MIDI audio files by using the timidity tool as well as with playmidi
# timidity HitTheLights.mid
# playmidi HitTheLights.mid
Just to proove the MIDIs can be played normally via the Sound Blaster (for a more on the topic check my previous article talking in depth about Linux and MIDI – Play Midis on Linux / Make Linux MIDI Ready for the Future – Enable embedded MIDI music to play in a Browser, Play MIDIs with VLC and howto enjoy Midis in Text Console.
Next logically to make sure, something is not wrong with audio drivers, I tried to play some music normally with, the standard console players I have played with for years on Linux mpg123 / mpg321 for reference check my Listening music in text mode in Linux console but this was no luck again …
I tried even to install the opencubicplayer ( Linux port) music player and tried to open the CD, but even though the CD can be heard to be rolling in the CD drive no sound was outputed out of the laptop speakers.
Thus to resolve tried everything at power starting from increasing any missing volumes via the aumix command, as often in the past I remember the problem in such situations is the sound volume is decreased to zero percentage or completely muted.
# aumix
as well as with
# alsamixer
Nevertheless, every possible volume up volume was raised and everything looked cool as I could play normally music on machine or in a browser, the AUDIO CD Music refused to play out of the Speakers.
Playing the Audio CD via success with mplayer
The work around to make it play was up to a one liner with mplayer
# mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/cdrom cdda://
To easify the play of CDs I've created for my self a tiny one liner script to run it.
#!/bin/bash
mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/cdrom cdda://
I've called the script playcd.sh, made it executable and placed it under /usr/local/bin
# vim /usr/local/bin/playcd.sh
#!/bin/bash
mplayer -cdrom-device /dev/cdrom cdda://
# chmod +x /usr/local/bin/playcd.sh
Playing Audio CDs with VLC (VideoLAN Media Player)
I've vlc client installed on my Linux box, if you don't have it, do:
# apt install –yes vlc
Then roll on the CD with vlc with passing it the location to the CD, usually one of the down two pointers should work:
# vlc vcd:///dev/sr0
# vlc vcd:///dev/cdrom
If you want to loop the Tracks to play forever
# vlc –loop vcd:///dev/cdrom
By the way vlc can do much more than you think as you can even play youtube with it, for example you can try it with the Axel Folly classics Mod file, by running it like this.
# vlc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlyK_elUmIw
Cheers and Enjoy CD audio on Linux ! 🙂
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Posted in Linux, Linux and FreeBSD Desktop, Linux Audio & Video | No Comments »
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022 
Christ is Born ! – Image Source: Holy Cross Monastery
Happy Nativity Christ was born 2022 years ago ! I wish a happy Nativity (Christmas).
ILet with the birth of Christ, his light and eternal dominion is born in us and lights us, as the star lighted the Magis who followed the Christmas star.
I wish my dear readers Peace, Love, Hope, Faith Good spiritual and bodily health and God's mercy by the prayers of the Holy Mother of God.
Saint Alexander Nevsky Largest Cathedral, Sofia Bulgaria. Tallest (53 m) and largest (by area and volume) cathedral in the Balkans and one of the 3 largest Eastern Orthodox Churches in Europe.
I wish you also a Happy New 2022 year ! Let the new year bring you new power to fight evil and do more good. Let the new year be peaceful, full of Grace and kindness to each of my dear readers ! Let the new year bring you more wisdom and understanding on everyone's life destination and bring you understanding on what is the proper things to do that would bring more joy and for our family, colleagues at work and people who surround is over the coming 12 months time.
Let each those who were sorrowful become joyful, those who hurted, get healed and those who worked hard find fruits out of their hard labor. Let those who hunger find food and those who are in pain find relief !
Use your obtained knowledge wisely and not only work on the mind but work on the soul so they both become better !
Cheers and Happy New Successful Year 2022 !!!
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Monday, July 16th, 2012 
Some time ago on one of the Database MySQL servers, I've configured replication as it was required to test somethings. Eventually it turned out replication will be not used (for some reason) it was too slow and not fitting our company needs hence we needed to disable it.
It seemed logical to me that, simply removing any replication related directives from my.cnf and a restart of the SQL server will be enough to turn replication off on the Debian Linux host. Therefore I proceeded removed all replication configs from /etc/my/my.cnf and issued MySQL restart i. e.:
sql-server:~# /etc/init.d/mysql restart
....
This however didn't turned off replication,as I thought and in phpmyadminweb frontend interface, replication was still appearing to be active in the replication tab.
Something was still making the SQL server still act as an Replication Slave Host, so after a bit of pondering and trying to remember, the exact steps I took to make the replication work on the host I remembered that actually I issued:
mysql> START SLAVE;
Onwards I run:
mysql> SHOW SLAVE STATUS;
....
and found in the database the server was still running in Slave Replication mode
Hence to turn off the db host run as a Slave, I had to issue in mysql cli:
mysql> STOP SLAVE;
Query OK, 0 rows affected, 1 warning (0.01 sec)
mysql> RESET SLAVE;
Query OK, 0 rows affected, 1 warning (0.01 sec)
Then after a reload of SQL server in memory, the host finally stopped working as a Slave Replication host, e.g.
sql-server:~# /etc/init.d/mysql restart
....
After the restart, to re-assure myself the SQL server is no more set to run as MySQL replication Slave host:
mysql> SHOW SLAVE STATUS;
Empty set (0.00 sec)
Cheers 😉
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Posted in MySQL, System Administration | 1 Comment »
Thursday, December 30th, 2010 
Do you wonder How to change <meta name="Generator" content="Joomla! – Copyright (C) 2005 – 2007 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved." /> in Joomla 1.5
If yes, Here is how I've just found to remove the:
in my Joomla installation.
I need to remove that as a part of making my website not to leak out that it runs on top of Joomla.
So here is how:
1. Go to your Joomla website main root directory
2. Edit /libraries/joomla/document/html/renderer/head.php
Look for line: 83 in the /libraries/joomla/document/html/renderer/head.php
There you will notice the code:
$strHtml .= $tab.'<meta name="generator" content="'.$document->getGenerator().'" />'.$lnEnd;
In order to remove the <meta name="generator" content="Joomla …." /> change the above code to something like:
$strHtml .= $tab.'<meta name="generator" content="My Custom Web site Generator name" />'.$lnEnd;
That's all now next time you refresh your website the content="Joomla! – Copyright (C) 2005 – 2009 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved." will be no more.
Cheers! 🙂
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Posted in Joomla, Linux, System Administration, Various | No Comments »
Tuesday, April 8th, 2014 An useful thing on GNU / Linux sometimes is to list last or oldest modified files in directory.
Lets say you want to list last 10 modified files with ls from today / yesterday. Here is how:
ls -1t | head -10
my.cnf
wordperss_enabled_plugins.txt
newcerts/
mysql-hipo_pcfreakbiz.dump
NewArchive-Jan-10-15.zip
hipo_pcfreakbiz-mysqldb-any-out-1389361234.tgz
Tisho_Snimki/
wordpress/
wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron=1.1
wp-cron.php
To list 10 oldest modified files on Linux:
ls -1t | tail -10
my.cnf
pcfreak_sql-15_10_05_2012
mysql-tuning-primer*
tuning-primer.sh*
system-administration-services.html
blog_backup_15_07_2012.tar.gz
www-files/
dump.sql
courier-imap*
djbdns-1.05.tar.gz
Cheers 😉
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Saturday, August 20th, 2011 I’ve recently had to build a Linux server with some other servers behind the router with NAT.
One of the hosts behind the Linux router was running a Window GRE encrypted tunnel service. Which had to be accessed with the Internet ip address of the server.
In order < б>to make the GRE tunnel accessible, a bit more than just adding a normal POSTROUTING DNAT rule and iptables FORWARD is necessery.
As far as I’ve read online, there is quite of a confusion on the topic of how to properly configure the GRE tunnel accessibility on Linux , thus in this very quick tiny tutorial I’ll explain how I did it.
1. Load the ip_nat_pptp and ip_conntrack_pptp kernel module
linux-router:~# modprobe ip_nat_pptp
linux-router:~# modprobe ip_conntrack_pptp
These two modules are an absolutely necessery to be loaded before the remote GRE tunnel is able to be properly accessed, I’ve seen many people complaining online that they can’t make the GRE tunnel to work and I suppose in many of the cases the reason not to be succeed is omitting to load this two kernel modules.
2. Make the ip_nat_pptp and ip_nat_pptp modules to load on system boot time
linux-router:~# echo 'ip_nat_pptp' >> /etc/modules
linux-router:~# echo 'ip_conntrack_pptp' >> /etc/modules
3. Insert necessery iptables PREROUTING rules to make the GRE tunnel traffic flow
linux-router:~# /sbin/iptables -A PREROUTING -d 111.222.223.224/32 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 1723 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.3:1723
linux-router:~# /sbin/iptables -A PREROUTING -p gre -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.3
In the above example rules its necessery to substitute the 111.222.223.224 ip address withe the external internet (real IP) address of the router.
Also the IP address of 192.168.1.3 is the internal IP address of the host where the GRE host tunnel is located.
Next it’s necessery to;
4. Add iptables rule to forward tcp/ip traffic to the GRE tunnel
linux-router:~# /sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -p gre -j ACCEPT
Finally it’s necessery to make the above iptable rules to be permanent by saving the current firewall with iptables-save or add them inside the script which loads the iptables firewall host rules.
Another possible way is to add them from /etc/rc.local , though this kind of way is not recommended as rules would add only after succesful bootup after all the rest of init scripts and stuff in /etc/rc.local is loaded without errors.
Afterwards access to the GRE tunnel to the local IP 192.168.1.3 using the port 1723 and host IP 111.222.223.224 is possible.
Hope this is helpful. Cheers 😉
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Posted in Linux, System Administration | 6 Comments »
Monday, July 4th, 2011 
On a couple of occasions, I’ve had the issue of loosing / forgetting a MySQL password at other times I had to login to servers which contained MySQL servers with a password I don’t know.
In any of this occasions I was required to restore the ROOT access to the mysql server.
Sadly recoving a mysql lost root password is not really possible in a easy way, thus in most cases the only option one have is to stop the mysql server and run it again in a special skip-grant-tables mode, which runs the server in a sort of passwordless safe mode and makes it accessible without admin password through mysql cli .
To Omit the password check the skip-grant-table option instructs the MySQL server not to check in mysql.user while any request to connect with mysql client to the server is made.
Therefore one can login to the mysql server passwordless and reset the current (lost) password to another one.
Thease can be achived in the following four easy steps:
1. Stop the MySQL server
mysql:~# /etc/init.d/mysqld stop
2. Run the mysql server with the –skip-grant-tables option
mysql:~# mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables &
3. Login to the mysql and change current mysql root password
mysql:~# mysq -u root
mysql> UPDATE user SET password=PASSWORD('yournewpassword')
WHERE user='root';
mysql> FLUSH privileges;
4. Stop and Start the Mysql server again
mysql:~# killall -9 mysqld_safe
mysql:~# /etc/init.d/mysqld start
..
Now the new mysql password will be identical to the yournewpassword . Cheers 😉
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Friday, July 29th, 2011 
I had to change my mysql root password for one of the servers since during the install I mispasted the password in the MySQL password prompt I needed the pwd to be changed.
Here is how I changed it to my desired one:
linux:~# /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -p'OLD_PASSWORD_STRING' password NEW_PASSWORD_STRING
linux:~#
The password gets changed immediately 😉
If a new password has to be set to a passwordless mysql server, the command to be issued is:
linux:~# /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password PASSWORD_STRING
Changing the MySQL password is also possible with mysql cli, after connecting to the sql server, though this method is a bit more time consuming. Here is how to do it from mysql console:
linux:~# mysql -u root -p
Server version: 5.1.49-3 (Debian)
Copyright (c) 2000, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL v2 license
Type ‘help;’ or ‘h’ for help. Type ‘c’ to clear the current input statement.
mysql> use mysql;
mysql> update user set password=PASSWORD(“NEW_PASSWORD”) where User=’root’;mysql> flush privileges;
Of course it’s possible to do change the root pass via phpmyadmin
Cheers 😉
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Monday, March 21st, 2011 I’m trying to install subscribe-to-comments wordpress plugin in order to make my users to easily set a tick and receive new emails if somebody replies to their comments in my blog. Pitily downloading and trying to install the subscribe-to-comments wordpress plugin was failing after it’s activation with an error message:
PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare show_subscription_checkbox() (previously declared in /var/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/subscribe-to-comments.php:12) in /var/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments.php on line 58"
I did my best to edit the subscribe-to-comments.php to fix up the fatal error but it was no go, so after a bunch of research I’ve found out somebody created a new version of the plugin under the name subscribe-to-comments-reloaded .
I’ve proceeded and gave a try to subscribe-to-comments-reloaded as a substitute to the old broken subscribe-to-comments .
Enabling the subscribe-to-commets-reloaded worked out of the box and the plugin now works perfectly fine and even better is enabling all the functionaity of the subscribe-to-comments
Cheers 🙂
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Posted in Various, Web and CMS, Wordpress | 3 Comments »
Sunday, January 22nd, 2012 Accidently I've removed the Gnome Volume Control while trying to remove an applet nearby from the GNOME main menu panel. Unfortunately in GNOME 2, I couldn't find a way to to return back (restore) Gnome Volume Control to the main panel. After a bit of pondering, I've managed to find a way.
Here is how I managed to restore it back:
1. Navigate to:
System > Preference > Startup Applications
2. Click on Add, then add and type the following:
Name: Volume control
Command: gnome-volume-control-applet
Comment: Launch volume control applet
Adding the gnome-volume-control-applet will launch it every time a new gnome session (with the same user) is initiated. On next gnome login you will see the icon to appear again in the notification area. Cheers 😉
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Posted in FreeBSD, Gnome, Linux, Linux and FreeBSD Desktop | No Comments »
Solving “Cannot redeclare show_subscription_checkbox() (previously declared in .. wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/subscribe-to-comments.php”
Monday, March 21st, 2011I’m trying to install subscribe-to-comments wordpress plugin in order to make my users to easily set a tick and receive new emails if somebody replies to their comments in my blog. Pitily downloading and trying to install the subscribe-to-comments wordpress plugin was failing after it’s activation with an error message:
PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare show_subscription_checkbox() (previously declared in /var/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/subscribe-to-comments.php:12) in /var/www/blog/wp-content/plugins/subscribe-to-comments.php on line 58"I did my best to edit the subscribe-to-comments.php to fix up the fatal error but it was no go, so after a bunch of research I’ve found out somebody created a new version of the plugin under the name subscribe-to-comments-reloaded .
I’ve proceeded and gave a try to subscribe-to-comments-reloaded as a substitute to the old broken subscribe-to-comments .
Enabling the subscribe-to-commets-reloaded worked out of the box and the plugin now works perfectly fine and even better is enabling all the functionaity of the subscribe-to-comments
Cheers 🙂
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Posted in Various, Web and CMS, Wordpress | 3 Comments »