I am definitely a rsync user, and for anyeone whom is not allergic to command line i do not see why searching for another utility … Wrap an well thought rsync command inside a desktop short-cut and here we go! Rsnapshot is also something i liked

fuse-google-drive is a fuse filesystem wrapper for Google Drive released under GPLv2

Currently in preliminary development stages.

Status:
directory listing works, incorrect stat() info
redirecturi is now hardcoded -- you do not need the file
clientsecrets and client id should now be in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fuse-google-drive/

Discussion:
#fuse-google-drive on irc.freenode.net

Dependencies:
fuse
curl
json-c aka libjson
libxml2

The first and easiest way to improve WordPress performance is plugins. Deactivate and delete any unnecessary plugins. Try selectively disabling plugins to measure server performance. Is one of your plugins significantly affecting your site's performance? Then you can look at optimizing plugins. Are plugins coded inefficiently? Do they repeat unnecessary database queries? WordPress has its own caching system, so generally speaking, using functions like get_option(), update_option() and so on will be faster than writing SQL. Themes After plugins come theme optimization.

Sometime back i wrote about How to reduce WordPress server load on Shared Hosting and there i talked about Google XML sitemap Generator plugin can be one of the main culprits behind your High server/ CPU load on your shared hosting. In this post i will talk about few things about the same plugin and how to configure some of its settings so that it uses less CPU or memory on shared hosting. I am assuming here that you already have installed the plugin and have some issues with your CPU/Server load on shared hosting. You should change the default options only when you know what you are doing. Some of the configuration changes as described below surely will help you reduce your server load and run your blog smoothly.

Remove unnecessary plugins: Use only the required plugins, do not over load your WordPress installation with unnecessary plugins which is not serving any real purpose. Most of the time I am tempted to install plugins to achieve something which is not really required. So always stay away from those plugins. We will publish a list of really important plugins for WordPress in a  future post.

Several weeks ago I decided to speed up my WordPress blog since I thought it was running quite slowly. In the last few weeks I’ve been doing a lot of research and this article is what I came up with on how to best increase the speed of a WordPress blog. Navigation: 1. Basic Optimization 2. Template Optimization 3. External Objects 4. WordPress Plug-in Optimization 5. Database Optimization 6. Conclusion Before we can start optimizing our WordPress blog we first need to see how long it takes to load it and what it’s size is. To be able to do that I would recommend using tools such as Pingdom or Firebug with an additional add-on called YSlow. Through these tools you should be able to measure your progress, i.e. a decrease in load time. Before using all these little tweaks make sure that you back up your blog first!

Meine private Top 10 oder der Anwendungen für die Kommandozeile, vielleicht sollte ich eher sagen, dass das meine Lieblingsanwendungen sind und nicht unbedingt die, die ich am häufigsten benutze (dann müsste wenigstens sudo noch dazu).

If you run a high traffic WordPress installation you will want to optimize WordPress and your server to run as efficiently as possible. This article is a general overview of the avenues to pursue. It's not a detailed technical explanation of each aspect. If you need a quick fix now, go straight to the caching page, you'll get the biggest benefit for the smallest hassle there. For a quick introduction to WordPress Optimization see the cheat sheet. For all the articles on optimizing WordPress see the WordPress Optimization category.

Man sitzt grübelnd vor dem Rechner, tippt nichts, bewegt keine Maus - aber plötzlich hört man die Festplatte anlaufen. Was hat sie aufgeweckt: Der Indexer der Desktop-Suche, eine E-Mail, oder gar Malware? Oder: Wieviel Schreiboperationen landen bei allen Buffern und Caches tatsäclich auf der Platte? Blktrace gibt die Antwort.

Looking for a no-nonsense command-line tool for monitoring your GNU/Linux system? Glances might be right up your alley. This neat little Python-based utility provides an overview of all key system aspects, including CPU load, disk storage, memory consumption, and network activity. More importantly, the utility does a good job of presenting monitored data in an easy-to-follow manner.

Back up drives and partitions to image files or other drives Copy a drive block-for-block directly to another drive Supports a very large number of file system types Can reinstall GRUB 1 and 2 after cloning Can access image files on local disks, an SSH server, SAMBA server, or NFS server

You know how you can control your Linux box through the terminal command line? Well, if you have SSH set up, you can also control a remote computer over the network. This is really useful for taking control of things like webservers.

With Déjà Dup it's very easy to configure periodic backups. Do do them, just click on "Schedule" and decide how often you want to run your backups, and how long for.

Yes, it's that simple. With Déjà Dup, there is really no excuse not to backup anymore.

Tools to view your site as Googlebot would see it

The following are a couple examples of web services that will allow you to see your web pages or their source code the way other user agents (such as Googlebot) see them. This could be helpful in detecting undesired output if your site's files or database have been hacked. Often times, such hacks are masked when viewing a site by "regular" users and only show up to search engines.

In this article, learn to:
Create and configure printer sharing
Configure integration between Samba and the Common UNIX® Print System (CUPS)
Manage Windows® print drivers, and configure downloads of print drivers
Configure the [print$] share
Understand security concerns with printer sharing
Set up and manage print accounting

If you are fan of command line like me and agree that in many situations it’s better/easier to use terminal than graphical interface, you should try terminal plugin for nautilus file manager. This smart plugin makes it possible to open popup terminal in any directory you opened in nautilus and use it for file manipulations or anything you want. If you still don’t have it installed you definitely should.

Nachdem ich mich nun im Zuge meiner Blog-Artikel eine Zeit lang mit SparkleShare beschäftigt habe, möchte ich nun zum Schluss der Serie ein kleines Fazit dazu ziehen

Shellskripting ist ein Prozess, bei dem nicht immer alles so laufen muss, wie man sich das vorstellt. Gerade bei komplexeren Skripten bricht das Skript mal gerne im Probelauf ab. Doch wo steckt der Fehler? Mit einem einfachen Trick kann man das Skript dazu bringen, mehr Informationen auszuspucken. Dazu fügt man im Skript ein: set -x

I’ve recently been using Debian a lot (mostly Debian Wheezy (aka testing)), So I’ve decided to adapt my Fedora 15 post installation setup & tips article for Debian. Here are some of the common things I add to a typical “graphical desktop” Debian installation as well as some tips and tricks that you’ll hopefully find useful. Btw, I highly recommend you to use the netinstall Debian distribution - that way you’ll get an up-to-date installation immediately and you won’t have to download huge installation images.

This article will be of use mostly to people using Debian as a desktop OS (with GNOME as their desktop environment) - it doesn’t discuss any server configurations.

Typing sudo dmidecode into a terminal will give you a giant list of information about your machine that you can browse through, or you can use the -s flag and a keyword to get a specific piece of information.

Was tun, wenn die Dockstar nicht anpingbar ist, obwohl in der Netconsole Starting Kernel steht? Das kann oft mehrere Gründe haben, in diesem Post werde ich darauf eingehen, wie man solche Probleme behebt und in Zukunft am Besten verhindern kann. Ein Grund kann ein defektes beziehungsweise beschädigtes Dateisystem sein, ein anderer ein Kernel Upgrade via apt. Doch zu den Ursachen und Lösungsansätzen jetzt mehr.

Wenn es um Webserver geht, fällt den meisten Administratoren als erstes Apache ein, der in der globalen Statistik des Web auch an erster Stelle steht. Kleinere und schnellere Alternativen gewinnen jedoch immer mehr Anhänger, so zum Beispiel Lighttpd und Cherokee. Als zusätzlicher Wettbewerber stieg vor einiger Zeit der Nginx-Server (ausgesprochen englisch "Engine-ex") in den Ring. Er steht für hohe Performance, Stabilität, umfangreiche Features, einfache Konfiguration und geringen Ressourcenverbrauch. Das Resultat der Bemühungen des Programmierers Igor Sysoev verrichtet seinen Dienst in vielen großen Sites, zum Beispiel Wordpress.com, Hulu und Linuxquestions.org. Ungewöhnlich: Außer als Webserver kann Nginx auch als Proxy für die Mail-Protokolle IMAP und POP3 auftreten.

This admin plugin allows you to rebuild the index used by the fulltext search. This isn’t needed generally as the index builds and updates itself while users browse your wiki. However if you just upgraded, added or removed a lot of files it may be a good idea to cleanup the index.

CrunchBang is a Debian GNU/Linux based distribution offering a great blend of speed, style and substance. Using the nimble Openbox window manager, it is highly customisable and provides a modern, full-featured GNU/Linux system without sacrificing performance.

Ubuntu 10.10 Server Edition extends Canonical's CloudInit configuration tool. This lets you set a default locale, set the hostname, generate and set up SSH private keys, and set up mount points on Ubuntu instances during boot-up when running in the cloud.