Zabbix is a very powerfull monitoring tool that is highly flexible and supports many hardware units.
Listed below is the solutions i made in my use with the product.
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Zabbix Tricks
htaccess based 301 redirect of non-www to www
Of cause you want to make a proper 301 redirect from a domain.com to www.domain.com to avoid duplicate content and a bad standing at Google.
If your DNS hosting provider doesn’t provide with a redirect solution, you should make the redirect by yourself.
How to parse Amazon S3 log format in php
Hi there,
If you want to parse / split the items in the Amazon S3 logformat in php, you need some regular expression magic.
Here is my snippet
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How to recompile / install vmware tools on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Yep, alot of vmware tricks today 
Reciepe to recompile/install vmware tools:
(Assuming you are in a terminal)
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 64 bit stalls on VMware
Stumbled upon another issue when running Ubuntu on wmvare today, it seems that a TSC clock bug in the 2.6.24 kernel. Short it goes out of sync when running with more than one cpu / vcpu.
Missing network interface after cloning a Ubuntu template on ESX vmware server
I was cloning some Ubuntu 8.04 LTS machines from a template i made and everything went fine, except the kernel could not find my eth0 and mapped a new eth1.
After some thinking and testing, i found out that the device manager’s had the old MAC address in the udev rules file. (ofcoz, doh!)
The Danish Joomla spider
Mission: To examine how many joomla sites there are in Denmark
Many times i asked myself – how many sites actually runs joomla in e.g. Denmark and i’ve could’t find the answer anywhere. Even extensive search on Google, posting in forums etc.
So i decided to find out myself.
How to easily convert .ts files to Mpeg2 or DVD
So you finally got the recording features to work on your DreamBox, but you want more?
If you only want to view the MPEG livestream file (.ts) then use VLC player, which is the best player around.
But if you want to convert the .ts file to eg. Mpeg 2, or MPA/MPV format for later creation of DVD discs, read the following guides.
Subversion with a working copy on a samba share
When having a working copy on a samba share, i used to get alot of “Failed to add ‘XXX’: object of the same name already already exists”. It seems that the problem lies on the samba configuration.
Headers! When making a mobile site!
Hi there,
Spend some time the last two days trying to figure out why my mobil xhtml site did’t showed on various non smartphones.