Markus Blog

Travel Coffee Presser

Markus — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:52:13 +0000

Two days ago I had a chat with my friend (and also my mentor in software engineering) Ruud Mulder. On the chat we discuss several subjects and one of it is “Coffee”, an interesting topic for both of us then the topic went to “I’ll make you jealous because I have an Espresso coffee [...]

Changing /tmp Partition Size on CPanel Server

Markus — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:23:39 +0000

Today one of my server have its /tmp partition is full and causing problems such as failed MySQL database query or Fantastico stop working because they can’t write temporary file. Here is the solution I found on CPanel’s forum: lsof /tmp Then umount /tmp and /var/tmp: umount -l /tmp umount -l /var/tmp Then remove the old partition file: rm -fv /usr/tmpDSK Then [...]

Google Translate Now Support Bahasa Indonesia

Markus — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:44:20 +0000

I use Google Translate often for translating from Dutch to English as I’am currently working for a Dutch company and some of the documents are in Dutch. Several days ago I noticed that Google Translate now support translation from/to Bahasa Indonesia. I tried several times and the translation is good enough although still a lot of [...]

Xen VPS can’t initialize iptables table ‘filter’

Markus — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:58:39 +0000

If you using HyperVM and get this error message after upgrading your dom0’s Xen kernel: iptables v1.2.11: can't initialize iptables table `filter': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. It means that the library for the kernel is not copied yet to the VM. To fix this simply copy [...]

Recursive chmod for files or directories only

Markus — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:21:58 +0000

To do a recursive chmod to directories only you can run: find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; And for files only: find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

New Forum: Talk Web ID

Markus — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:39:29 +0000

Recently I installed a new forum called Talk Web ID, you can visit it here: http://www.talk.web.id. The topics of my new forum is IT for now, but I’ll expand it to be more general in the future. If you like to share or just chat about a topic please join my forum and post a [...]

Free Web Design Templates

Markus — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:32:14 +0000

Web design is one of the most important things when you creating your website, whether it’s a personal website, corporate website, online shop or even a blog, you need a good design to attract visitors. If you are a web designer or have the fund to pay a web designer to create a nice web [...]

Delete Files Older Than n Days

Markus — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:50:40 +0000

In Linux system you can delete old unused files (usually the session files in /tmp) all at once by running this command: find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \; this command will delete files which is 5 days old, if you want to change the number of days to 3 days old, then you have to [...]