Update 2015-06-16:Ubuntu 14.04 Active Directory Authentication

Authenticating Linux users against Active Directory has traditionally been hard. There's a multitude of HOWTOs on how to do it, and every one of them seems to do it a bit differently. This is because environments and goals vary, and there are …

This query sums total disk space used by the table including indexes and toasted data for the 20 largest tables:

SELECT nspname || '.' || relname AS "relation",
    pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size(C.oid)) AS "total_size"
  FROM pg_class C
  LEFT JOIN pg_namespace N ON (N.oid = C.relnamespace)
  WHERE nspname NOT IN ('pg_catalog', 'information_schema')
    AND …

Why WordPress Asks for Connection Info

You can also add this to wp-config.php to get rid of the FTP prompt in case you have write permissions but WordPress does not understand it correctly:

define('FS_METHOD', 'direct');

The stock mod_auth_mysql package in Ubuntu is not able to authenticate against the phpass password hashes stored in the WordPress database.

There seems to be a patch lying around to enable phpass authentication in mod_auth_mysql. Its inclusion in mod_auth_mysql has been requested a long time ago, and again more recently …

How To Find Out To Which PPA Repository A Package Belongs To

Hand Soldering with Lead-Free Solder

Symbols for drawing simple electrical circuit diagrams in LibreOffice Draw:

"freie Schaltzeichen"-Extension 1.3.0 english - Eine freie und qualitativ hochwertige Symbolbibliothek

Good advice:

http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/2996/electrical-and-fluid-schematic-palettestemplates/

How to format text paragraphs in Vim:

Automatic formatting of paragraphs

Format paragraph:

• :setlocal tw=80
• gqip

In part I, we learned how to configure Apache to server any .py file as a web application using mod_wsgi. I promised to tell you more about WebOb and multiprocessing and multithreading, and exception handling. I'll save those topics for later articles. Instead, in this part I will talk about …

I wanted to make the indivitual post pages 100% wide, and also the headings a bit bigger. Here's the CSS to do it:

/* Make individual posts full-width */
.singular.page .hentry {padding:1em;}
.singular .entry-header,
.singular .entry-content,
.singular footer.entry-meta,
.singular #comments-title {
 width: 100%;
}
/* Fix the edit button placement */
.singular …