Recently I’ve stumbled on a pretty cool OpenSource project called ”datatables” (http://datatables.net/), which allows to easily create tables in HTML that can be: sorted searched paginated scroll infinitely themed … And most important: it’s for free! I’ve always wanted to create an infinite scrolling table and now it’s just too easy: $(document).ready( function() { oTable […]
The Google API GeoChart Map (https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/gallery/geochart) is pretty nice widget to generate nice maps based on certain values. It has quite a lot of features and it is very easy to use. Before we look at the Google API for GeoChart, let’s first set up a script which will get data out of a database […]
Small clip of last winters Snow Leopard Day at the LIVINGROOM Hochkoenig
The follow website was created for a few friends of mine. They are official mountain guides in the Hochkönig (Austria) area and offer very interesting sommer and winter tours. Have a look at their brand new website! http://hochkoenig-guide.at/
The below example is a very simple TCP server script written in Perl, which uses the AnyEvent module. It will create a separate process for each connections and has the ability to return data to the parent process. The below example allows 15 child processes to be created, which results in 15 simultaneous client connections. […]
Since the release of OpenSSH 6.2, two new configuration parameters have been added: AuthorizedKeysCommand AuthorizedKeysCommandUser These parameters allow to create any kind of authentication method for OpenSSH, including LDAP authentication, and therefore patches like the LPK patch for OpenSSH are not required anymore. The only thing the script needs to do is return either an […]
On 15 August 2013, we started the Königsjodler at 05:00am. The weather was just perfect but it was quite crowded. Not only the Himalayas suffer from millions of tourists who need to get their peak rush. This Via Ferrata is of course not for everybody since it is a very long one and it requires […]
A secure and very random password generator module written in Perl. It can be used to generate passwords or unique strings which can be used in sorts of operations. The default character set is alpha-numerical based, but can be set to any kind of character list. The complete handling and generating is implemented in a […]
Nagios plugin script written in Bash to check the master-slave replication in PostgreSQL (tested on PostgreSQL 9.2.4) (executed on the slave). The script will report how many bytes the slave server is behind, and how many seconds ago the last replay of data occurred. The script must be executed as ‘postgres’ user. #!/bin/bash # $Id: […]
If you have a hosting account at Hetzner with free backup space, you can not access this backup volume using rsync. One way of creating a simple backup, is by using the tar command with the incremental option. You will also want to encrypt these backup files and one easy to do this, is by […]