This almost feels too simple to even mention it. But I guess it doesn’t hurt putting it our there. Someone might hit it in a desperate Google hunt.
So this is the deal. You have a device on your network that controls another device by means of sending out simple TCP payloads.
Now you want to perform [...]

When I wanted to build the latest PHP for a server I found several guides online. Sadly none of them worked right away.
So after finally getting it all to work like I wanted to, I decided to quickly write up this guide.
I start with a clean Ubuntu 8.04 install. So, first things first:

sudo apt-get update
sudo [...]

This is a little introduction to the latest version of my steam and hlds frontend bash script.
I will demonstrate it’s use by setting up a new Team Fortress 2 game server with it.
This tutorial assumes an Ubuntu 8.04.2 x86 server system. I set up a VM for the sake of this tutorial.
It has 2 CPUs, [...]

For a while now I have been running some dedicated servers for Source games. Primarily Team Fortress 2. I lately switched those off in favor of Left 4 Dead servers. I was always looking for a way to improve my setup. At some point during my initial googleing I came across this article.
I based my [...]

My first implementation of this idea may have been sufficient for general use. For inclusion in Wordpress however it was problematic at best.
Now that I have revised (and tested) it, I thought I’d share this updated Wordpress plugin.

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Flash version Detection
Plugin URI: http://www.dirty-motherfucker.org/
Description: Detects flash version
Version: 0.1
Author: gencha
Author URI: http://www.dirty-motherfucker.org
*/

$plugin_root = get_settings(’siteurl’) . ‘/wp-content/plugins/’.dirname(plugin_basename(__FILE__));

if( [...]

I was interested in what Flash Player version people are using when visiting my site. So i looked around the web for a solution including AWStats. At first i was out of luck until i noticed that AWStats has a discussion forum on sourceforge as well.
Someone there came up with a solution which was almost [...]

So in the process of migrating our company network architecture over the paths months, I had the chance to set up Cacti for server monitoring. I followed some documentation and articles on the net but ended up making some stupid mistakes. So, let’s start with this.
The host system Cacti will be running on, is Ubuntu [...]