iftop isn’t in the CentOS repo by default which is a shame, luckily there is an rpm on repoforge available; just run this little bash command/script to install the correct version depending on arch or display saying it’s unavailable.
if uname -a | grep -q "64"; then rpm -ivh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/iftop/iftop-0.17-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm; elif uname -a | grep -q "86"; then rpm -ivh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/iftop/iftop-0.17-1.el6.rf.i686.rpm; else echo Not available for your arch.; fi
As part of the ongoing development of my site and services, there will be some services that will be discontinued within the next few months.
Services Portal
This is really just a very static web page which probably isn’t used, it’s a pain to maintain and really just a waste of disk space. This service will be removed on 6th April 2013. If you use this service then please book mark the pages you require from the services portal.
Filestore turns to Cloud Files
As some users of my filestore system may know, the uploading method isn’t very simple and overall the hosting of files can be much easier on other services, this is why I have overhauled the filestore system.
The current filestore system isn’t going away just yet but will be migrated to a better solution. The new filestore will be more cloud-like with the ability to store calendar and contact information, along with a sync tool for computers (Mac, PC, Android and iOS) and a simple new interface. The same interface will be available for file sharing and a directory list will continue to be available.
This new service will be under the files subdomain and not filestore, this is to help the transition be smooth, I will be contacting the relevant users when this change will come into effect.
Manager
The web manager will also go through a change, mainly to give users more control over their services but to also be more mobile compatible. This change won’t effect any files and migration will be made once all the new services are ready to be used. This will however mean that some interfaces will change, so don’t be surprised when everything’s suddenly different; we will leave the old manager available for a short period of time as things transition.
Proxy
This service is going to be retired in the near future. It shouldn’t be being used and I don’t wish for it to be publicly available anymore. This is really just a courtesy notice in case anyone is using it.
Backups
Anybody using the backup system that I provided will be migrated to the private cloud system which will be a similar system to the successor of the filestore (above) but it will be contained on a separate server, require different credentials and also have limited sharing abilities.
Services Already Removed
The (very) old static blog site that was left up for historical reasons has finally been removed; along with a small server list containing servers that are no longer active.
So overall there’s some exciting new changes being made in the near future.
I’ve been trying to make a smaller install of the RaspberryPi‘s distro Raspbian for use as a headless server/base as a minimal install. The default image contains a full desktop environment, development tools aimed at general users and firmware for most common WiFi chipsets which are entirely unessesary for a headless server for web and dhcp services.
I’ve decided to document what I did to save me time next time I reimage my Pi.
Re-activate Root
[login as pi]
sudo su
passwd
[new root password]
exit
Remove the user Pi
[login as root]
deluser pi
rm -R /home/pi
rm -R /home/Desktop
I had written this code a few years ago for use on a website although not the icon sprite I’m including… I needed to use it recently so I’ve decided to upload it here too..
I know it’s not the most elegant solution, but it works well over all browsers and fallbacks (no CSS) gracefully as a list, finally if there isn’t an actual icon available for your social networking site, then it will default to the ‘share this’ icon.
You can see a demo of it on the footer of this site too; I will try to include other sprites if I can find the time to make them.
Edit (6th July 2013):
Added GitHub to the icon list and changed the code to be a class over an id so it can be used multiple times in the same page; also added CodePen icon.
