Kirrus’ Blog

Last night I posted on twitter that I was struggling to find stuff to post about. jkblacker (Not bassets, sorry Josh!) suggested that I post about how I’m finding it hard to find stuff to post about… so here it is
Not exactly the most spectacular day 4, especially since I’ve got 26 left [...]

Firstly, apologies about the lateness of writing a new post. I’ve been struggling with my server, trying to work out why apache2 is eating RAM. I’ve made a really nasty hack to sort it out for the moment though, which will give me more time to find out what is going wrong.
One of my old [...]

I thought it was probably a good time for another Ubuntu-related post, so here we go.
Window Selection

Something I found on one of my explorations, is this really handy feature (handy for me at least), which allows you to give a window “focus” (or selection) merely by putting your mouse over it. To activate it, click [...]

Why should you not use your notepad as a coaster? This is why:

The notes did say this, before my lovely hot black coffee destroyed them:

“begin”
== Start transaction

“commit”
== End transaction, saving all changes

“rollback”
== Undo all changes that you’ve made in the transaction

What are they? In mySQL 5, with a table storage type of “innodb” you can [...]

A post full of links and unsorted info about using Xen on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, so that I don’t forget. (This lot has taken ~2 days to collect…) May make a full howto sometime… probably not though, as my boss knows this stuff better than I. Xen is pretty cool though…
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Xen (useless for gutsy…)
The Xen [...]

Here are just some morsels of information about the Linux Command line, and more specifically, Ubuntu Linux Command line / system.

Users can be added to a group with the command:

sudo adduser <username> <groupname>

In ubuntu, the default system shell is “Dash”. That does speed up your system boot, but it also introduces problems with those scripts [...]

Open Office keeps automatically trying to guess what you’re typing? Sometimes it can be useful, especially if you’re doing something quite repetitive. However, it can also be a bit dumb at times.
Now, Open Office predictive text, actually comes under auto-complete. Don’t ask me why, as to my mind at least, that’s a completely illogical place [...]

Effectively, by this tutorial, we will be disabling logins on the ubuntu box, and just using gdm and the x-server to talk to a server on the local network using XDMCP. This means, that you’ll actually login to the remote server, and use the remote servers’ data and processing power.
WARNING: This will disable GUI access [...]

Firstly, when doing hardware maintenance, remember to plug all leads back in. (I’m so glad I’m not the only one who’s forgotten this: http://err.no/personal/blog/tech/2007-02-06-12-38_powerless_disks)

To open a terminal in Ubuntu, go to Applications > Accessories > Terminal

To add shortcuts from the applications listing to your desktop or top/bottom panel, browse to the location of the program [...]