Category Archives: Configurations

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How to Install SNMP on Tomato Router Firmware and Graph Traffic with Cacti 5

You’ve flashed your old WRT54G or other vanilla router with the Tomato firmware. This itself turns your router into a lean, mean routing machine with QOS, SSH and more, but let’s say we want to take it a bit further. What it we want to get some more stats out of it?
In order to do [...]

A Twitter Search Wordpress Plugin 5

Ok, this is not really a plugin per se, but Wordpress already has the capability of displaying a Twitter search stream via it’s RSS feed widget.
It is dirt simple to set up.
Go into Appearance -> Widgets and select the widget area you wish to add the twitter search stream to;
Add “RSS” and position the widget [...]

Password Protected Folder Gives 404 Not Found in Wordpress Installation Sub-folder. 15

Came across this little maddening issue again today after fixing it a few months back. I created a directory that is password protected using a .htaccess file. However, when trying to access this folder or anything under this directory, a File Not Found 404 error from Wordpress is displayed before it even prompts you for [...]

Installing And Compiling Zabbix Client / Agent 1

Zabbix is an excellent system monitoring package. It does everything from basic availability checking to detailed system resource analysis. It is capable of graphing the variables pulled from the system, and alerting admins if there is a problem or something needed for attention.
Once you have the Zabbix server set up, you need to install the [...]

Add IP to whitelist for Postini Mail Filtering 4

I could not find any way to see how you could add an IP address as a ‘white list’ for our Postini installation. Mails coming from our mailing list manager kept getting caught in the Postini spam interface (which is probably a whole other issue, which I will need to address later).
To get Postini to [...]