A couple of people asked me for more info on my new blog setup here's a rough outline of what's involved in setup and posting. There are many ways of doing this, this is just the way that suited me be…

On a debian server with mediawiki installed and running with a local mysql. root@myserver:~# apt-get install automysqlbackup root@myserver:~# crontab -e # m h dom mon dow command 5 4 * * …

Programs > .. R2 > SQL Server Configuration Manager Network config > Protocols > tcp/ip > enable & properties Clear the dynamic port under IPAll Set the TCP Port to 1433 (which is …

Multiple working folders for git on Windows XP (lucky me) It is assumed that you have a git working copy of your project already in place at C:\code\myproject\ and that you want another copy of your p…

LVM + ReiserFS for the win! It's so easy to add more space root@atom:~ # lvextend -L +100G /dev/vg2/local Extending logical volume local to 200.00 GiB Logical volume local successfully resized root@…

As it took me quite a while to get it how I like it, here's the relevant bits for making a django formset (custom markup in a table), that automatically adds rows (formset forms) client-side / in the …

getting supybot to announce new bugzilla bugs - I've just put here the key non-obvious things that tripped me up when trying to set this up. All done on Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS Install supybot and the supyb…

Steps I took to get a backuppc server on an ubuntu 8.10 pc in order to be able to back up a windows vista business pc. I've only documented the non-obvious and undocumented items here. Added a user c…

If you trust everyone who has physical access to a pc (if not then you are encrypting your files, right?) then there seems little point in having to type a password just because more than one user use…

If you are like me and my coworkers, you often end up running stuff as root in your home folder and end up not able to access your own files. For the record, here's the commands to reset the permissio…

I couldn't find anything exactly matching this on the net when I was figuring it out, so here's what I did. This is working against a remote svn (subversion) server, but applies even without one. On t…

Here's how to recursively remove execute permissions on files that have been copied from a windows system. find * -type f -exec chmod -x {} \; ie, find all files (not directories), and execute a comma…

A quick howto... Take a series of photos on your digital camera. Copy them onto your linux box. shrink the photos to a more managable size: mogrify -verbose -resize 600x400 -quality 60% *.JPG Preview…

Challenge of the day was to fit as many photos as possible on a single flash card to stick in a digital photo frame. Here's how it's done. The frame from Philips goes by the memorable name of 9FF2M4 ,…

This weekend, I finally got the tv-out working under linux (Ubuntu 7.10 aka gusty gibbon) on my laptop. Here's what was involved, including some of the (time consuming) red herrings involved in gettin…

Update 11th Sep 2007: xsession responded to my support request, and the opml file is now served, complete with the correct mime type. Update 26th Dec 2009 Now on a linux host so no mime type issues n…

A friend asked me to write this up. To remove all those annoying adverts from the web as you see it: install & use firefox install adblock plus add-in install fliterset-g updater add in Jo…

Howto prevent ubuntu locking the screen when closing the laptop lid. Thanks to jrib in irc://freenode.net/#ubuntu for this one. Run gconf-editor (with alt+F2) Go to or search for /desktop/gnome/lo…