Colouring MOTD

Terminal should be ANSI compliant and support colour escape sequences. Modern terminal should do the job.

The following is a list of escape sequences

The ^[ is produced by pressing Ctrl-V then ESC

I’m using vi as text editor and there’s no problem with ctrl-V ESC, i’m not test it on other text editor.

^[[0m    - Reset the terminal characteristics
^[[1m    - emphasis (bold)

^[[30m    - Foreground black
^[[31m    - Foreground red
^[[32m    - Foreground green
^[[33m    - Foreground yellow
^[[34m    - Foreground blue
^[[35m    - Foreground magenta
^[[36m    - Foreground cyan
^[[37m    - Foreground white

Speeding up your website using eaccelerator and memcache/memcached

Php default behaviour is always re-compile our script everytime accessed by users/browsers. eaccelerator can increases the performance of PHP scripts by caching them in their compiled state, so that the overhead of compiling is almost completely eliminated. It also optimizes scripts to speed up their execution. eAccelerator typically reduces server load and increases the speed of your PHP code by 1-10 times.

memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

Here’s how to install eaccelerator extension

$ wget http://bart.eaccelerator.net/source/0.9.6/eaccelerator-0.9.6-rc1.tar.bz2
$ tar xjf eaccelerator-0.9.6-rc1.tar.bz2
$ cd eaccelerator-0.9.6-rc1
$ phpize
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ cd /var/cache
$ sudo mkdir eaccelerator
$ sudo chown -R apache:apache eaccelerator

Most Commonly Used ipv6 Command In My Windows XP Workstation

ipv6 if

This command displays interface information.

    D:\Documents and Settings\harry>ipv6 if 7
    Interface 7: Ethernet: Local Area Connection
      Guid {3FCF938D-344F-4515-8CA2-3FA8801C15C3}
      zones: link 7 site 2
      uses Neighbor Discovery
      uses Router Discovery
      link-layer address: 00-19-d1-ea-ee-16
        preferred global 2001:470:19:13c:219:d1ff:feea:ee16, life 29d23h59m59s/6d23h59m59s (public)
        preferred link-local fe80::219:d1ff:feea:ee16, life infinite
        multicast interface-local ff01::1, 1 refs, not reportable
        multicast link-local ff02::1, 1 refs, not reportable
        multicast link-local ff02::1:ffea:ee16, 2 refs, last reporter
      link MTU 1500 (true link MTU 1500)
      current hop limit 64
      reachable time 19000ms (base 30000ms)
      retransmission interval 1000ms
      DAD transmits 1
      default site prefix length 48

ipv6 rt

This command displays the current contents of the routing table.

    D:\Documents and Settings\harry>ipv6 rt
    ::/0 -> 7/fe80::20c:29ff:fe1e:b535 pref 256 life 26s (autoconf)
    2001:470:19:13c::/64 -> 7 pref 8 life 29d23h59m56s (autoconf)

Toggle IP From Static to DHCP to Static Tool

I’ve created small tool(for windows XP/Vista), writen in visual basic 6.this tool was created for switching between static LAN ip to DHCP and back to original static IP (original IP saved in temporary variable) without opening network configuration, And without typing anything, just few mouse click is what we need. This tool using Windows Management Instrumentation for enumerating all network interface, get parameters, and set parameters.

Set objwmiservice = GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\cimv2")
Set colNIC_Config = objwmiservice.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration WHERE Index='" && _
                    Netconf.strIFIndex(CboIF.ListIndex) && "' AND IPEnabled=TRUE")

Naked Woman On IPv6

I found interesting stuff today. While i was submiting daily tests for hurricane electric.certification, i got this whois result:

[Querying whois.ripe.net]
[whois.ripe.net]
% This is the RIPE Database query service.
% The objects are in RPSL format.
%
% The RIPE Database is subject to Terms and Conditions.
% See http://www.ripe.net/db/support/db-terms-conditions.pdf

% Note: This output has been filtered.
%       To receive output for a database update, use the "-B" flag.

% Information related to '2001:820::/32'

inet6num:       2001:820::/32
netname:        NO-WEBONLINE-20020712
descr:          WebOnline A/S
country:        NO
org:            ORG-WAon1-RIPE
admin-c:        JH914-RIPE
tech-c:         WO1095-RIPE
mnt-by:         RIPE-NCC-HM-MNT
mnt-lower:      WEBONLINE
mnt-routes:     WEBONLINE
status:         ALLOCATED-BY-RIR
source:         RIPE # Filtered

How to calculate linux user umask

Suppose we have umask 0002 for our user default permission. [bash] $ umask 0002 [/bash] Create new directory [bash] $ mkdir tmpdir [/bash] tmpdir directory created with its default permission 775 [bash] $ ls -l .......... .......... drwxrwxr-x 2 harry harry 4096 Oct 8 06:59 tmp .......... .......... [/bash] Create…

WordPress HE IPv4 Exhaustion Counter Plugin

I've just create/modify small wrapper wordpress plugin for hurricane electric's ipv4 exhaustion counter widget. It's base on ipv4 exhaustion widget create by  GeertHauwaerts (create for IPv4 Exhaustion Counter made by Intec NetCore, Inc.) Installations Download the .zip package from here Upload it to your server and place the .zip file…

Postfix smtp outgoing load balancing

I got good workaround for balancing smtp outgoing from postfix mailing list archives(not using expensive real load balancer). suppose we have 4 smtp servers for outgoing email, and we need to configure/load balance like this:

                                                         +------------+
                                                         |            |
                    +----------> smtp backend a -------->|            |
                    |                                    |            |
clients --------> smtp lb -----> smtp backend b -------->|  Intenet   |
                    |                                    |            |
                    +----------> smtp backend c -------->|            |
                                                         |            |
                                                         +------------+

Here’s the configuration :