Monthly Archives: April 2011

HowTo Use an HTTP Proxy With Git

Posted on April 29, 2011 by admin

git should use the environment variable $http_proxy so set that and you should be ok. If you don’t want to use the environment, set it statically like this: $ git config –global http.proxy http://proxy.example.com:8080 $ git config –get http.proxy http://proxy.example.com:8080

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Linux HOWTO Enable Miltucast Ping (ICMP) Replies (Echo)

Posted on April 21, 2011 by admin

The 2.6 Linux kernel does not respond to multicast ICMP Echo requests by default. This is a setting in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts Test it: # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts 1 # Set it to 0 for ping replies: # echo “0” > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts # … Continue reading →

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Build A Custom PERL Installation

Posted on April 11, 2011 by admin

If you want to build a PERL installation that is separate from your standard PERL, you can compile one, complete with CPAN support. Just follow these steps: mkdir /custom/perl/ cd /custom/perl/ curl -O http://www.cpan.org/src/perl-5.12.3.tar.gz mkdir perl-5_12_3 gunzip perl-5.12.3.tar.gz tar -xf … Continue reading →

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