Category Archives: Linux

Fixing the Fedora 12 VirtualBox Guest Additions problem

By Bob Somers | Published: January 7, 2010
I’m a frequent VirtualBox user, and as I’ve noted in my previous posts, I’m an avid fan of Fedora as well. However, there is a nasty bug in the most recent version of VirtualBox (3.1.2) when combined with Fedora 12. After installing the Guest Additions kernel modules as per the user docs, the system boots to [...]
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SSL detection by PHP scripts run through FastCGI on nginx

By Bob Somers | Published: July 3, 2009
How’s that title for acronym soup? I ran across this issue when playing around with nginx. I was trying to set up phpMyAdmin for SQL administration, but ran into a rather peculiar issue. To explain the problem, let me give you some context. I’m running nginx only on port 443, using SSL for everything. As I’m going [...]
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Fedora, you need some slimfast

By Bob Somers | Published: June 30, 2009
Let me get this out of the way up front. I absolutely love Fedora to death. It’s my favorite distribution of linux by far, and I’ve played with a lot of different distros. I love the way way it works, I love how it’s on the bleeding edge, I love how things are laid out and [...]
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Using a file as input for iptables-restore

By Bob Somers | Published: June 25, 2009
I deal with headless linux boxes a lot, and one of the first things you always want to do is configure your firewall. The general rule of thumb says to deny all traffic and only poke holes where you need them. It’s an awful pain to configure iptables one rule at a time from the [...]
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