On Ubuntu or Debian: $ sudo apt-cache search php|egrep ^php5- $ sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt Ref: Install php extensions on ubuntu

The following command will kill all processes belong to a single user on Linux. pkill -u username Credit: Linux – Kill all processes for a user

bind9 runs in a chroot environment on lenny. The service can be started as usual: # /etc/init.d/bind9 start Starting domain name service...: bind9. Let’s check bind9 status: ` /etc/init.d/bind9 status bind9 is not running failed! ` Well, the first thing I did was to check the log file, in which I found no error related to named. So I tried another way to check the status: # rndc status version: 9.6-ESV-R3 CPUs found: 1 worker threads: 1 number of zones: 17 debug level: 0 xfers running: 0 xfers deferred: 0 soa queries in progress: 0 query logging is OFF recursive clients: 0/0/1000 tcp clients: 0/100 server is up and running I was convinced that the DNS service was running. So what went wrong? It must be something in the /etc/init.d/bind9 script that incorrectly reports bind9 status. Opened up this file, I found: ...

3 is my mobile carrier. It offers an online service which allows its customers to check the current usage from their phones by accessing this URL: three.net.au/my3/gethome.do. Usually it works quite well, but not today (and probably some more days to come), it gave me a HTTP ERROR 404. I thought I should just visit http://three.net.au and find out w-t-h is wrong. Unexpectedly it took me to another site — “callenden group policy wording”. It’s very weird so with some spare time, I decided to do a little investigation. ...

This is a self-note. $ banshee --disable-dbus