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Half Life and Counter Strike on GNU/Linux through Steam

Feb 082013

I used to play these games around 10 years ago or more, and without any other option available I had a second partition with windows 98 as “game station”, somewhere I should still have the original boxes and perhaps I should start to search for them, because now they have (finally !!) arrived on Linux.

Steam client for Linux is becoming richer by a growing number of game titles and now you can see on the game database http://steamdb.info/linux/ that half life, Counter Strike and the newsest version Counter Strike Source have “Game Works” as Linux Status tag.

Ubuntu One discontinues support to Tomboy

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Feb 062013

In the past I’ve talked about Tomboy, that i was not liking too much to have a Mono application in all my computers, but that Tomboy sync feature was really too good for me, well it seems that someone else has decided that it’s times for me to switch to another Notes program.

In a recent post on Ubuntu One blog Canonical announced that its Cloud service (U1, aka Ubuntu One) will cease syncing Tomboy Notes to U1, meaning U1 won’t transfer your notes between computers.

Glances a new system-monitor tool

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Feb 042013

Most of this post is based on the information found in the blog of Nicolargo, the author of this tool.

Glances is a free software (licensed under LGPL) to monitor your GNU/Linux or BSD operating system from a text interface. Glances uses the library libstatgrab to retrieve information from your system and it is developed in Python.

So another top/htop clone ?

Yes and no, an unique thing about glances that I’ve immediately seen is that you can configure thresholds in its configuration file and see the status of your system resources with colors that indicates if everything is fine or not, at a glance.
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fbcmd : Manage facebook from the Linux terminal

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Feb 022013

In the past I’ve presented some clients for twitter that run on linux terminal, such as twidge and turses , they are really useful not just for connecting to social websites via your terminal but also to do scheduled jobs or procedure that will print a result or a message on these websites.

Fbcmd is a command line interface (CLI) for facebook.
It is open source and is both “free as speech” and “free as in beer”. It works in Windows, Mac and Linux.

Let’s see how you can use it.

How to log the correct Ip having Varnish and Nginx

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Jan 302013

When you run a webserver behind a reverse proxy or HTTP accelerator such as Varnish, the webserver access logs will display the IP of the proxy (generally 127.0.0.1) instead of the end user’s IP.
This is a problem when you have a software like webalizer, awstats or similar log file analysis program, because you lose one of the most important information: “Who is the requestor of a page ?”, also having all the access coming from the same IP (127.0.0.1) you lose information such as “what’s the browsing pattern of visitors ?” “Is someone trying to do something Nasty ?”

In this small how-to I’ll show how to put this information back on your Nginx log files in 2 different ways.