James McDonald

I use a backup script to gzip and then email my webserver backups to my gmail account. I was using the following line of code to attach the gzip / tar.bz2 files to an email. ( echo backup of $ETC; uuencode $DBDIR/$ETC $ETC ) | mail -s "Backup of $ETC $DATE" $TO...

I have a HP Chromebook with Ubuntu 12.04 running Mate Desktop and Insync Google Drive syncing software installed. I want to be able to see the sync status of my Google drive files while in caja similar to what I can do with the working dropbox integration: The problem...

Sometimes you want to batch convert office files from say .doc to .docx to bring yourself into the 2010's but you can't find a format convertor. LibreOffice has an application known as unoconv Which is very cool unoconv -l & # start the listener # convert a Word...

Just transferred this site to a Digital Ocean "droplet" which is what DO calls a VPS. The instance is being hosted in Singapore. Things I like at the moment: Fast provisioning ping times to the DO Singapore datacenter are quicker than to Rackspaces ORD data center...

Just noticed some nice fonts from Jono Bacons Dealing with Disrespect PDF book I downloaded recently Thought to myself I would like these fonts on my Fedora 20 Workstation. So I opened the PDF properties discovered the font was Ubuntu & Ubuntu Light which lead...

I have a work phone which I use as my personal phone also. So there is a lot of stuff like personal photos co-existing on the device. When I return the phone I want to know that the next IT person that get's the phone will not be able to run a file recovery utility...

Just looking at a Digital Ocean SSD performance test here http://www.itekhost.net/digitalocean-performance-benchmarks/ Decided to run my own on my Rackspace "1 GB Performance" VPS The DO benchmark gave 355MB/s note the performance of the Rackspace VPS: dd if=/dev/zero...

These tutorials are very interesting if you are running nginx and would like to use more than the standard options. http://agentzh.org/misc/slides/nginx-conf-scripting/nginx-conf-scripting.html#1 http://openresty.org/download/agentzh-nginx-tutorials-en.html

Trying to connect to a share \\linuxpc1\jamesm from Windows 7 to a Debian box I have a local user defined with the settings below getent passwd jamesm jamesm:x:1000:1000:jamesm,,,:/home/jamesm:/bin/bash Getting an error in /var/log/samba/log.__ffff_192.168.0.109 and...

Just saw this in my inbox. An email saying I need to change my Logmein.com SSL cert and a link to 'new' cert. Screenshot of the email: If you Download the ssl.zip and unzip it you get a "logmein_ssl_certificate.pif: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386, for MS Windows"...

I've been using http://www.netcraft.com for many years to have a look at what technologies are powering different sites, which IP netblock they are on and whether they have been moved over time. You go to the home page, find the "What’s that site running?" form, enter...

Got an error when attempting to activate office of 0x80070190 Tried running office as an adminstrator and doing the activation still got and error So started an administrative command prompt cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14 cscript ospp.vbs /act...

Things I discovered / Googled. You need to enable the "Remote Registry" Service make sure it's running. The correct firewall ports need to be open http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/firewall-ports-push-deployment And you need to add a value to allow UAC to bypass...

I use Fedora 20 at home and Windows 7 at work but I like to be able to have a consistent environment across my Workstations. The following is a list of productivity applications that gets installed on both Windows and Linux.  

http://miftyisbored.com/a-complete-login-and-authentication-application-tutorial-for-cakephp-2-3/ This site is by a multi-talented developer that sometimes Blogs about CakePHP. The good thing about it is he includes listings for the structure of the database tables...