Alexandr's blog

A long time ago, when I start to use my first FreeBSD workstation I used ee as simple editor (it is simple and very useful), after ee I use vi it take a lot more time to understand "how" and "why" it works, but... I don't stop it use.

Only one thing stop me to use vi as default environment for PHP based projects - miss XDebug support.
So, at moment at all my servers I use vi as default editor, sometime I have not root privileges and use next lines in .bash_profile

EDITOR=vi
export EDITOR
alias editor=$EDITOR

I work with GPix every day and only now I understood how many time I spent to admin login page

I spent to GPix near 2 hours(average) every day and I login minimum 3(average) times per day. My browser remember login and pass, so I wait page and click login 5-8 secs

All this mean that I spent minimum 90 minutes for latest year to login!!! and all this time I use two computers only! amazing
So, I implement "Remember my computer" button I think that it will be useful for GPix administrators.

I have received several mails from active GPix testers about 'back links' functionality.

It is common way to increase you site rank and don't spend direct money for this.
So, I see common problem 'curl' extension and cron setup.

As result I will try to implement this functionality without this requirements.

do you have several servers?
do you transfer data between them?

time to time I transfer data between servers and in most cases I use

scp local-file user@host:/path/remote-file

scp user@host:/path/remove-file

for this task netcat is useful too, so it can be like this
server side

nc -l -p 12121 > local-file

cat local-file | nc host 12121

of course 12121 need to be replaced with something random because "nc" don't provide authentication and encryption

Often I develop and control process using ssh(putty) session. Connection with server allow me monitor and do related sub-task like svn/cvs updates.

I don't like when my session give timeout message - server require activity. I use "top" on my local server, but some third party environment don't allow me this (have not access to top!), so I just thinking about this situation after couple minutes of googling discover 'watch' command.

It is so easy:

watch ls

and you session keep alive

New release included next:

• min width and height for rectange (http://forum.tufat.com/showthread.php?p=154619#post154619)
• fix republish functionality ("Utime failed" error)
• original (bigger that at pixels side) image show(image to expand on mouse over)
• option list via direct lists for multiple grids (http://forum.tufat.com/showthread.php?p=153689)

Currently I wait test results, so it will take several days to see release at TUFaT

option list via direct lists for multiple grids (http://forum.tufat.com/showthread.php?p=153689)

To implement this feature in your skin, you need to apply next changes
index.tpl:

{if $links}
    {foreach item=link from=$links}
        {$link}   
    {/foreach}
{/if}

{if !$app->setting->grids_as_options}
  {if $links}
    {foreach item=link from=$links}
      {$link}   
    {/foreach}
  {/if}
{/if}

after this line

      <td align="right">

        {if $app->setting->grids_as_options}
          ##Grid:##

I have many request for original images feature

so, now it is done

GPix users which will update its own templates need to merge index.tpl, show_pixels.tpl and style.css with original files from GPix package.

translation update for request
http://forum.tufat.com/showthread.php?p=204697#post204697

instructions:

• upload attached file to temp directory, grant read permission
• go to "Import Language Texts" in administration menu, choose "de (Deutsch)" and click import
• use "Clear cache" administration menu to clear caches
• go to "Get pixels" page and review

Many years I used FreeBSD as my server invioroment, but before 6 months I migrate to Debian Linux, because I have no time to compile packages from sources.

So, now I work with Debian and I am newbie. Common action when some network application don't work is to review opened ports. FreeBSD have very good utility sockstat. I don't found something like this in Debian and I googled, as result I discover next alternatives for sockstat:

• lsof -i
• netstat -anpe

in this example netstat don't show fd+uid, but for this socklist can used