Day 4 - Falling back to the meta-referance

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 [...]

Firefox won’t upgrade!

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 [...]

Hidden Ubuntu Gems: Window Selection, Always on Top & Password Gen

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 [...]

Notes / MySQL Transactions

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 [...]

Xen Gutsy Links

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 [...]

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Useful Linux (Ubuntu) Tidbits

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 [...]

How to Configure or Disable Predictive Text in Open Office

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 [...]

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How to turn a Ubuntu Box Brainless

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 [...]

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Useful Ubuntu Things to Remember

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 [...]