I found this to be very much worth doing once I started spending a fair amount of time SSHing into different remote systems on a regular basis. So now I have about 18 of these for personal, and client, servers. …
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A few helpful Bash settings and aliases
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on December 19, 2011
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I’m constantly trying to get my hands off the mouse and onto the keyboard so I’ve been looking for tweaks and tricks to help me to do what I need to do with fewer mouse clicks and keystrokes. I’ve been …
Separating source code from web root with PHP and NetBeans
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on December 19, 2011
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I recently tidied my server filesystem and ended up making webroot a little more secure by keeping all of my source out of there, and having nothing that I edit directly in place. Mainly this was done to avoid duplication …
WordPress upload/upgrade permissions with group ownership
Posted by admin
on December 14, 2011
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I have to maintain a few WP blogs for clients. It’s not a package I overly enjoy working with. Sure, it does the job pretty well and is hugely popular, But there is something about it that I just find …
Irssi improved notification script
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on December 13, 2011
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I don’t use IRC very much, but when I do, I use Irssi. I don’t bother with a lot of customisation, and just use adv_windowlist.pl just to tidy up the display a little more. However, I do like the irssi-libnotify …
Skype Problems on Ubuntu 64 11.10
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on December 13, 2011
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I have to use Skype as part of my normal working day, and to keep in touch with family in the UK, so it’s a pain when it doesn’t work. After the upgrade to 11.10 and the new 3.0 kernel, …
Ubuntu 64 Minimal Install Upgrades
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on December 13, 2011
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I’ve been running Ubuntu 64 installed from the minimal install for about 4 months now, and have been slowly tweaking it to get it just how I want to be. This mainly came about after a…not quite disastrous, but certainly …
Ubuntu 11.04 and Unity – Awesome WM to the rescue
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on December 13, 2011
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I do remember being ever-so excited about 11.04 coming out, and how completely unimpressed I was with Unity. My super fast PC (it particularly felt that way after coming to Ubuntu from Windows even though it’s a fairly average spec …
Linux and specifically, Ubuntu
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on December 13, 2011
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About a year ago I found I was doing much more server admin tasks and these were all using Linux servers. I’d inherited the job of server admin when someone left the team I was working in at the time …
Here comes another one
Posted by admin
on December 13, 2011
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Yet another attempt to start up a blog. I’ve been learning a lot recently with various computer related themes such as coding, and Linux, and so forth. Some of it has been useful, and some has been a bit tricky …
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