I'm fairly strict with what I allow as comments on this blog. But if someone has gone to the effort to post a well-thought-out comment I don't mind if they put a URL in the comment or the associated website field and therefore gain some SEO benefit from it. I have...
A browser tells the site it is visiting about itself: the plugins it is using, the screen resolution it is set at, the fonts available for display, It's preferred language/timezone and many other little details... (OS etc) It does this in order for the remote site to...
Despite the oo website saying that the Australian dictionary is include in OO 3.x.x I couldn't spell check my docs. The "Text Language" field of the OpenOffice Spell Checking dialog was missing. So I had to download the OpenOffice Australian Dictionary and install it...
Check this out... Watching a video that was hosted on zshare.net... Tried to watch the next one in the series. Firefox kept saying that I had a problem loading the page. A little investigation and I discovered that DNS was replying with the address for localhost...
Evolution at least the Exchange integration component is so buggy you could drive it on sand dunes. Every time I update Ubuntu I try the default mail application. For Ubuntu this is Evolution. Call me optimistic but as time progresses I would hope that basic...
This will tell you how many unique IP addresses have connected to your website since the last log file rotation. So if your logs are rotated daily then you have the number of unique IP's for roughly the last 24hour # go to your apache logs directory and run: $ cat...
If you run mysqldump --all-databases you get one monolithic file which can be a pain when trying to restore one database. So it's nice to call mysqldump dbname so you get individual database backup files. To call mysqldump for each database requires that you either...
This post was written before McAfee wrongly identified svchost.exe as a virus and caused many large businesses to close their doors while the problem was resolved: Fixing a laptop for a friend gratis Has some sort of malicious application known as "Security Tool"...
Organisations of a certain size employ IT people and harness them into a role. Those people take on the mantel of the role, learning whatever script that has been put before them. As long as the problem doesn't deviate from the script then they effectively resolve...
I have an old Compaq nx7000 work laptop that I have Ubuntu on. Just ran: sudo do-release-upgrade -d # It's before the official release date of Ubuntu 10.04 so I ran with the -d switch # -d, --devel-release Check if upgrading to the latest devel release is # possible...