Before and After: Fighting the Firewall Beast Before: you SSH into your Ubuntu server, start reading about iptables, get hit with words like chains and policies, and five minutes later you’re staring at a command that might lock you out of your own box. After: you use ufw with a few simple commands, knowing it’s just talking to iptables for…
Read More »I noticed the following error message while checking RSS feeds belongs to a client. XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity Location: http://www.domain.com/file.rss Line Number 2, Column 1: ^ This is what the XML output: Ron Weasley 8 yes Notice the extra white line just before the
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If you work with remote Linux servers, you live and die by SSH. Before: you type ssh user@server, it hangs, complains about keys, or you forget some weird option you used last week. After: SSH is just a boring tool that works every time — keys are set up, trust is clear, and your config does the heavy lifting. This…
Read More »Exact error message: … user warning: Unknown column ‘page’ in ‘where clause’ query: [function_name] /* [username] : [function_name] */ SELECT n.nid FROM node n WHERE n.type = page AND n.status = 1 ORDER BY n.created DESC LIMIT 0, 5 in /home/user/public_html/path/to.module on line 294. … Th query in question: $result = db_query(‘SELECT n.nid FROM {node} n WHERE n.type = %s…
Read More »This game (Hellgate London) ask for HGL_x86.msi (which is located in game CD) when uninstalling. Well, if you don’t have the CD in hand, you could just click the cancel button when it ask for HGL_x86.msi file. The uninstaller will still uninstall the game. This is the first time I found a game which ask for game CD when uninstalling,…
Read More »I got this error after adding new user to the system (CentOS). The user key is generated using PuTTY Key Generator (PuTTYgen for short). Exact error (in /var/log/secure): … Apr 3 08:57:13 hostname sshd[28041]: error: buffer_get_ret: trying to get more bytes 4 than in buffer 0 Apr 3 08:57:13 hostname sshd[28041]: fatal: buffer_get_int: buffer error Apr 3 08:58:23 hostname sshd[29722]:…
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